Editing Industrial Workers of the World (section)

====Organization====
[[File:Industrial Workers of the World membership card.jpg|left|thumb|alt=A small red cardstock booklet bearing the text, "Membership Card", and an IWW globe insignia.|A Wobbly membership card, or "red card"]]

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| quote  = The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all&nbsp;... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands – the ownership and control of their livelihoods – are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.
| source = — [[Helen Keller]], IWW member, 1911<ref>{{cite book |title=Helen Keller: Rebel Lives |first1=Helen |last1=Keller |author-link=Helen Keller |first2=John |last2=Davis |publisher=Ocean Press |year=2003 |isbn=9781876175603 |page=57}}</ref>
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The IWW first attracted attention in [[Goldfield, Nevada|Goldfield]], [[Nevada]], in 1906 and during the [[Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/ehpg9repst.htm |title=Short history of Pressed Steel Car Company |publisher=NEIU.edu |access-date=October 14, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828072626/http://www.neiu.edu/~reseller/ehpg9repst.htm |archive-date=August 28, 2009}}</ref>

[[File:IWW demonstration NY 1914.jpg|thumb|alt=Black and white photograph of a large crowd of people, a few holding signs above the crowd, displaying IWW acronyms and slogans.|1914 IWW demonstration in New York City]]

By 1912, the organization had around 25,000 members.<ref>{{cite book |first=Philip S. |last=Foner |title=History of the Labor Movement in the United States Vol. 4: The Industrial Workers of the World 1905–1917 |publisher=International Publishers |year=1997 |isbn=978-0717803965 |page=147}}</ref>