"Frank Little, murdered by capitalist interests for organizing and inspiring his fellow men."

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16. interesting, and sad too

Did this murder break the strike?

If he had not been killed, he probably would have gone to prison for opposing the war, just like Eugene Debs did.

The Wobblies though were never "one big union". At their peak they were not even as large as the Knights of Labor, who predate them by a couple decades.

Interesting what wiki writes, sorta the story of the left...

"Nonetheless, membership declined dramatically in the 1920s due to several factors. There were conflicts with other labor groups, particularly the American Federation of Labor (AFL) which regarded the IWW as too radical while the IWW regarded the AFL as too staid and conservative.[8] Membership also declined in the wake of government crackdowns on radical, anarchist and socialist groups during the First Red Scare after WWI. The most decisive factor in the decline in IWW membership and influence, however, was a 1924 schism due to internal conflict, from which the IWW never fully recovered.[8][10]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

"schism due to internal conflict"

Yep, that is the story of the left in America, just as ready to fight their own heretics in a search for purity as they were ready to fight their common enemy.