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Omaha Steve

(103,460 posts) Mon May 18, 2015, 09:43 PM May 2015

May 18, 1928 founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World

http://nhlabornews.com/2015/05/may-18-1928/

William “Big Bill” Haywood – founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and an advocate of industrial unionism – dies in the Soviet Union where he had fled after having been found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Espionage Act of 1917.

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May 18, 1928 founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2015 OP

Big Bill Haywood! yallerdawg May 2015 #1

Kick for Big Bill and the Wobblies....... socialist_n_TN May 2015 #2

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

1. Big Bill Haywood!

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Tue May 19, 2015, 08:58 AM

May 2015

An icon of labor history and the socialist movement.

In 1912, Haywood was a leader of the IWW’s Lawrence, Massachusetts strike of textile workers, mainly immigrants from many different countries. It was also a strike in which women workers played an active role.

Haywood made a speech to the workers about the need for unity. He demonstrated this by explaining the difference in power between the fingers of an open hand versus a clenched fist that could really strike a blow.

He helped work out a way for each nationality to have separate strike meetings in their own language to discuss and participate in decisions for the strike. Haywood and the IWW were actively opposed to any form of racism, sexism or discrimination of any kind.

http://speakout-now.org/big-bill-haywood-a-giant-in-the-struggles-of-the-working-class/

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)

2. Kick for Big Bill and the Wobblies.......

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sat May 23, 2015, 11:19 AM

May 2015

They proved that a vanguard Marxist party and syndicalist anarchists are not always and forever opposed.

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