With the election imminent he reflects: 'The only remaining question is how many freaks, heads, criminals, anarchists, beatniks, poachers,
wobblies, bikers and persons of weird persuasion will come out of their holes and vote for me.'
The "
wobblies," as they were known, were the hobos' union.
Its highest ever level was 6,179 at the end of trading on July 20 before world stock markets got a bad attack of the
wobblies.
The systematic, often brutal, repression by policemen, vigilantes and judges of the free speech rights of the
Wobblies was not very different from the way the law dealt with other political and labor radicals during the forgotten years.
But when it came to kissing his latest screen lover, he got the
wobblies. His new "leading lady" was Kevin Kline!
Members of the radical Industrial Workers of the World, so called
Wobblies, faced imprisonment, beatings, and even deportation for espousing "unpatriotic" causes.
One of the vicious effects of the "separation of labor" [a term we borrowed from the
Wobblies to describe narrow trade unionism] has been its separation of worker-as-worker from worker-as-citizen, as human being, as member of the human family and resident of the global ecosphere.
BRITAIN'S controversial cycling boss has sensationally resigned amid claims he called disabled athletes "
wobblies" and "gimps".
Government repression of Socialists and
Wobblies, abetted by Gompers, was necessary due to the popularity of their positions.
Wobblies!; a graphic history of the Industrial Workers of the World.
The Duke of Windsor was known to faint when exposed to his father's
wobblies. But conditioned to rely on letters for communication - even with the advent of the telephone - Georgie remained non-verbal (except with his children) for the rest of his life.
Ordinary Socialists, Communists, even
Wobblies (one of Lynd's favorite examples), as well as feminists, civil rights activists and New Leftists have often craved powerful and charismatic leaders to represent them, or simply wanted any leadership that could get past incessant internal squabbles.