Matilda Getrude Robbins (1887 – January 9, 1963) was a Russian-born American socialist labor organizer who first connected with the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1912 Bread and Roses strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
In Bridgeport, Connecticut she made her first connections to the Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Robbins and activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn were then hired by the IWW and spent three years traveling across the United States to assist with labor organizing.
[6][3] She was arrested for her organizing work in East Liverpool, Ohio,[7] in McKeesport, Pennsylvania,[8] and in Detroit, Michigan, all in 1913.
[10] Robbins wrote for the IWW publications for many years after leaving active organizing, and she ran the Socialist Party's Los Angeles office from 1945 to 1947.