Industrial Workers of The World - Notable Members

Notable Members

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Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included:

  • Lucy Parsons
  • Helen Keller;
  • Joe Hill;
  • Ralph Chaplin
  • Arturo Giovannitti
  • Ricardo Flores Magon
  • James P. Cannon
  • James Connolly
  • Jim Larkin
  • Paul Mattick
  • Big Bill Haywood
  • Eugene Debs
  • David Dellinger
  • Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
  • Sam Dolgoff
  • Monty Miller
  • Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal
  • Fritz Wolffheim
  • Frank Little
  • ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin
  • Harry Bridges (briefly, later helped form ILWU)
  • Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson;
  • Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder
  • Fredy Perlman
  • Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford
  • Graphic artist Carlos Cortez
  • Artist Kevin McCoy
  • Counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth
  • Surrealist Franklin Rosemont
  • Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament
  • Labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari
  • Folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics
  • Crime writer Jim Thompson;
  • Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa
  • Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

Former lieutenant governor of Colorado, David C. Coates was a labor militant, and was present at the founding convention, although it is unknown if he became a member. It has long been rumored, but not yet proven, that baseball legend Honus Wagner was also a Wobbly. Senator Joe McCarthy accused Edward R. Murrow of having been an IWW member. Some of the organization's most famous current members include Noam Chomsky, Tom Morello, mixed martial arts fighter Jeff Monson and anthropologist David Graeber.

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