One Big Union of All the Workers: The I.W.W.
- Pamphlet
- Chicago, Illinois: Industrial Workers of the World [I.W.W. / IWW], 1933
Chicago, Illinois: Industrial Workers of the World [I.W.W. / IWW], 1933. Pamphlet. Very Good. 16 pp. Octavo [19.5 cm]; saddle-stapled, illustrated self-wrappers. Some age-toning, light dust soil, and a bit of splitting to covers at the fold. Clean and unmarked. "Labor's plan for a scientific industrial society based on production for use instead of profit. [...] Economic security and abundance for all. No more depressions. No more unemployment, hunger or exploitation. Industrial democracy!"
Father Thomas J. Hagerty's Wheel — a circular diagram of the structure of the IWW's industrial union system — is printed on page 2. "Father" Thomas J. Hagerty (b. 1862) was a Catholic priest, a co-founder of the IWW, the author of the IWW's omnipresent "Preamble" text, and creator of the "Hagerty's Wheel" chart (see: https://archive.iww.org/history/biography/FatherHaggerty/ and https://archive.iww.org/about/official/wheel/). Shortly after the establishment of the IWW in 1905, Hagerty left both the Catholic church and the radical political movement. Late in life, before his death sometime in the 1920s, Hagerty was reported by some of his former union comrades to be living in voluntary poverty on the streets of Chicago.
This general IWW informational and organizing pamphlet was printed in many editions. The rear cover here states "This Pamphlet, Published March 1933, Price 5c". IWW's address of "555 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois" is printed on page 15, which was the IWW's General Headquarters from January 1928 - March 1933. Possible variant of Miles 4393 which states 13 pp. — whereas this version has 16 pp.
Father Thomas J. Hagerty's Wheel — a circular diagram of the structure of the IWW's industrial union system — is printed on page 2. "Father" Thomas J. Hagerty (b. 1862) was a Catholic priest, a co-founder of the IWW, the author of the IWW's omnipresent "Preamble" text, and creator of the "Hagerty's Wheel" chart (see: https://archive.iww.org/history/biography/FatherHaggerty/ and https://archive.iww.org/about/official/wheel/). Shortly after the establishment of the IWW in 1905, Hagerty left both the Catholic church and the radical political movement. Late in life, before his death sometime in the 1920s, Hagerty was reported by some of his former union comrades to be living in voluntary poverty on the streets of Chicago.
This general IWW informational and organizing pamphlet was printed in many editions. The rear cover here states "This Pamphlet, Published March 1933, Price 5c". IWW's address of "555 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois" is printed on page 15, which was the IWW's General Headquarters from January 1928 - March 1933. Possible variant of Miles 4393 which states 13 pp. — whereas this version has 16 pp.