The Wobblies
Directed by Steward Bird, Deborah Shaffer
Written by Documentary
Starring The Wobbies, Unions,
Release Date October 11th, 1979
On April 28th, 2022, the AFL-CIO will celebrate Workers Memorial Day, a day dedicated to those who lost their lives in the battle for better working conditions, better pay, and generally better treatment of the American working class. International Workers Day follows soon after on May 1st and again, labor unions will be heralded for the remarkable strides made from the early days of the labor movement, days remembered for remarkably brave men and women who defied the ruling class and fought on behalf of the working class.
The heroes of the labor movement in the early 1900's were many and many were known as The Wobblies, members of the IWW, Industrial Workers of the World. Why they were called The Wobblies is a rather convoluted and apocryphal story that is better explained in the new 4K Restoration of the groundbreaking 1979 documentary, The Wobblies. A newly restored print of The Wobblies has been made for exhibition on International Workers Day on May 1st, 2022, with plans for showings in New York and Los Angeles, and for this restored print to be housed at the Modern Museum of Art.
Find my full length review at Geeks.Media, linked here.
