Industrial Workers of the World Exhibit

This exhibit goes into depth about the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). The IWW thinks that all workers should be united within group or family as a class and that the wage system should be changed. It has also stood against racial discrimination between workers.

The I.W.W. was founded in June 1905 in Chicago by a group of about 200 men and women that thought that workers should be equal and should stick together as a brotherhood. These men and women strongly believed that the policies of the American Federation of Labor were unjust to the workers in America.

The I.W.W.'s first organizers included Big Bill Haywood, Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, Thomas J Hagerty, Lucy Parsons, Mary Harris Jones (commonly known as "Mother Jones"), William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, and many others. In this exhibit we touch base with the achievements of some of these people.