for more, we are joined by deborah shaffer, who co-directed this remarkable documentary with stuart byrdt is just been restored and screens nationwide on may day, this sunday, and online at the end of may. deborah, welcome to democracy now! it is an astounding film. tell us the story of the wobblies. >> the wobblies themselves was a union come as you heard in the clip, founded in 1905 out of necessity. workers at that time, unskilled workers had no union. there was no such thing. the afl existed but only emitted -- admitted mostly white, male, skilled workers. bricklayers, people with highly skilled jobs. e masses of instrial wkers -- rememr, this was the early days of industrialization in the u.s., textile mills were booming, lumber lls, cotn ns werbooming. ekers hado representation all and the re bng expeed to wo sen days aeek, 12 ur ds, no baks, no meals, underpd, overrked. ildren we working. nditionsere terrle. intolerable. amy: i want to go back to your film. in this clip, we hear from black longshoreman james fair after narrator roger baldwin. >> in the ports of the atlantic and of