Editing Industrial Workers of the World (section)

====Geography====
In its first decades, the IWW created more than 900 unions located in more than 350 cities and towns in 38 states and territories of the United States and five Canadian provinces.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://depts.washington.edu/iww/map_locals.shtml |title=IWW Local Unions 1906-1917 (maps) |website=IWW History Project |publisher=UW Departments |first1=Arianne |last1=Hermida |access-date=October 14, 2018 |archive-date=June 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612120452/http://depts.washington.edu/iww/map_locals.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> Throughout the country, there were 90 newspapers and periodicals affiliated with the IWW, published in 19 different languages.  Cartoons were a major part of IWW publications. Produced by unpaid rank and file members they satirised the union's opponents and helped spread its messages in various forms, including 'stickerettes'. The most well-known IWW cartoon character, Mr Block, was created by Ernest Riebe and was made the subject of a Joe Hill song.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Ettlling |first1=Alex |last2=McIntyre |first2=Iain |last3=Milliss |first3=Ian |last4=Milner |first4=Lisa |last5=Towart |first5=Neale |date=2022-02-14 |title=Lines of Resistance: What can the Old Left offer today's creatives? |url=https://commonslibrary.org/lines-of-resistance-what-can-the-old-left-offer-todays-creatives/ |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU |archive-date=March 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301100135/https://commonslibrary.org/lines-of-resistance-what-can-the-old-left-offer-todays-creatives/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Members of the IWW were active throughout the country and were involved in the [[Seattle General Strike]] of 1919,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/anderson.shtml |title=The Industrial Workers of the World in the Seattle General Strike |website=depts.washington.edu |year=1999 |first=Colin M. |last=Anderson |access-date=October 14, 2018 |archive-date=October 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015080310/https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/strike/anderson.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> were arrested or killed in the [[Everett Massacre]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://depts.washington.edu/iww/faces_of_iww.shtml |title=Faces of the IWW: The Men Arrested after the Everett Massacre |website=depts.washington.edu |first=James |last=Gregory |access-date=October 14, 2018 |archive-date=October 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015080323/https://depts.washington.edu/iww/faces_of_iww.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> organized among Mexican workers in the Southwest,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://depts.washington.edu/iww/mexicaniwws.shtml |title=Mexican Workers in the IWW and the Partido Liberal Mexicano (PLM) |website=depts.washington.edu |first=Devra Ann |last=Weber |year=2016 |access-date=October 14, 2018 |archive-date=October 15, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015080257/https://depts.washington.edu/iww/mexicaniwws.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> and became a large and powerful longshoremen's union in Philadelphia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://depts.washington.edu/iww/local8iww.shtml |title=Local 8: Philadelphia's Interracial Longshore Union |first=Peter |last=Cole |year=2015 |website=depts.washington.edu |access-date=October 14, 2018 |archive-date=August 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810014220/https://depts.washington.edu/iww/local8iww.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>