266:. Unions which refused to abide by these provisions were threatened with having all legal recognition for them vanish, and shops they had organized be brought under the legal jurisdiction of unions which did sign the anti-communist pledge. The international leadership of the IWW decisively refused to sign the pledge, which meant that all subsidiary unions, including the MMWIU (then the largest industrial union in the IWW) would face the serious threat of raiding from
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Since then, there have been no significant recorded MMWIU campaigns and the union lies defunct. The
Industrial Workers of the World still lists an industrial classification metal and machinery workers under its Department of Manufacture and General Production, which keeps the possibility open for new
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had as a result of the E-P split in 1924. He succeeded in leading the 1500-member
Cleveland local out of the IWW, to found an independent, single-local MMWIU. This move would tear the IWW-affiliated MMWIU apart and lead to it quickly going defunct, due to the inability of its remaining membership to
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forced management to negotiate with the union. By this point no union members were left at the shop, as all had either been fired or had moved on to other work, and the campaign failed.
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