Emma F. Langdon
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Emma Florence Langdon moved to the gold mining district of Cripple Creek, Colorado in 1903. She was an apprentice linotype operator who wrote that "women's place should be in the home and not in publi
Emma Langdon, 1908. Photo from her book, The Industrial Wars in Colorado.
The Industrial Workers of the World, whose members are nicknamed "Wobblies", is an international labor union founded in Chicago, Illinois, United States, in 1905. Its ideology combines general unionis
Big Bill Haywood and office workers in the IWW General Office, Chicago, summer 1917
A Wobbly membership card, or "red card"
1914 IWW demonstration in New York City
Workers being forcibly marched away from Bisbee into the desert