The 12 men became the live issue of all sections of the labour movement. In that year the IWW was declared an unlawful association. For the next two years presses, papers, were confiscated, members arrested time and again as groups tried to function. And there followed the bleak period I have mentioned. What the future of the IWW is here I can't say.
Isolated groups recur at intervals.
In Sydney and in Perth WA attempts have been made to resuscitate the organisation. But the Trade Unions made the most of it - for their own ends. In his old age Monty Miller professed regard for the Soviet Union - was capitalized and limelighted somewhat by the Coms. But he wouldn't have fallen for any more if he'd lived to see more of it. As far as I am concerned individuals do not make the movement.