Oh, You Wobblies!

DESCRIPTION: "I've traveled north, I've traveled south... And every place I've set my foot I've met the same old pest." "It's Wobblies, Wobblies, everywhere, It's Wobblies night and day." They've organized workers all over. Even "The angels... Have joined the O.B.U."
AUTHOR: "Scottie" (source: Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
EARLIEST DATE: 1918 (New Songs for Butte Mining Camp, according to Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest)
KEYWORDS: labor-movement travel humorous | IWW
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Lingenfelter/Dwyer/Cohen-SongsOfAmericanWest, "Oh, You Wobblies!" (1 text)
NOTES [18 words]: O. B. U. = "One Big Union," the goal of the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World, known as the Wobblies). - RBW
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