One Big Union.

Proceeding state by state and trial by trial, White describes, in vivid prose, "the vast scale and comprehensive reach" of this repression by governments and private employers, illustrating "how in wrecking lives it also wrecked the union." A law professor, White focuses on the legal means by which the state - on the federal, state, and local levels - tormented and persecuted its members, while offering an extended brief in defense of what the IWW was struggling to accomplish. BOOKS & the ARTS BOOKS & the ARTS IN BUTTE, MONT., MASKED MEN WOKE up radical labor organizer Frank Little, dragged him from their car, and then hanged his lifeless body from a railroad bridge. What the "story" of the war on the IWW "really does", he writes, "is confirm the Wobblies' own, darker anticipations as to the nature of capitalist rule, which align with the dismal fate of the labor movement and the radical left since the IWW's decline, as well as the prophecies of the Wobblies' most famous champion" Jack London. [Extracted from the article]