Chapter 14 MILITANT SOCIALISM THE I. W. W.

134. ORIGIN OF THE I.W.W.-The letters I.W.W. are a convenient abbreviation which is used to designate a group of militant socialists calling themselves the Industrial Workers of the World. The I.W.W. resemble a French socialist group known as syndicalists, and on that account the I.W.W. are sometimes called the American syndicalists. As a matter of