sentences:  In 1917, two miners' strikes involving the IWW, which had been organizing strikes elsewhere in Arizona and other states, took place in Jerome.Seen as a threat by business interests as well as other labor unions, the Wobblies, as they were called, were subject nationally to sometimes violent harassment.The MMSW, which in May called a strike against United Verde, regarded the rival IWW with animosity and would not recognize it as legitimate.