16. Trade unionism in the United States (often called “business unionism”) has almost always been accepting of capitalism and its policies have been aimed at betterment within the system. That was true of the Knights of Labor, the first substantial federation of workers (in the 1870s and 1880s), and even more narrowly so of the American Federation of Labor (founded in 1886). In the early years of this century the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, often called “Wobblies”) was formed. They were radical, anti-capitalist and anti-State, tending toward what was called “anarchosyndicalism.” Frequently, members of the IWW were lynched, by members of veterans’ groups or even of other unions. A fine book that covers much of this ground in the years surrounding the war is James Weinstein, The Decline of Socialism, 1912-1925 (New York: Random House, 1969).