<P> As envisioned by the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) -- which for many years prior to 1919 had been associated with the concept -- One Big Union was not just the idea that all workers should be organised into one big union . In the 1911 pamphlet `` One Big Union '' , IWW supporters Father Thomas J. Hagerty and William Trautmann enumerated two goals : One Big Union needed to `` combine the wage - workers in such a way that it can most successfully fight the battles and protect the interests of the workers of today in their struggles for fewer hours of toil , more wages and better conditions , '' and it also `` must offer a final solution of the labor problem -- an emancipation from strikes , injunctions , bull - pens , and scabbing of one against the other . '' </P>
<P> As envisioned by the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ) -- which for many years prior to 1919 had been associated with the concept -- One Big Union was not just the idea that all workers should be organised into one big union . In the 1911 pamphlet `` One Big Union '' , IWW supporters Father Thomas J. Hagerty and William Trautmann enumerated two goals : One Big Union needed to `` combine the wage - workers in such a way that it can most successfully fight the battles and protect the interests of the workers of today in their struggles for fewer hours of toil , more wages and better conditions , '' and it also `` must offer a final solution of the labor problem -- an emancipation from strikes , injunctions , bull - pens , and scabbing of one against the other . '' </P>
one big union was the goal of which labor union
one big union was the goal of which labor union
Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW )
Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW )