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	PlanetPapers - William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood: The Successful Progressive
		If “Big Bill” Haywood had not grown up to develop the type of personality he has become so famous for, he would not be known as one of the successful Progressives of his time.
		Haywood’s goal was to “see an uplifting of the fellow that is down in the gutterrealizing that society can be no better than its most miserable.” (Lukas, 233) He was able to accomplish many goals and fill many influential positions of power during his lifetime should, therefore, be seen as a successful progressive.
		Haywood had been able to draw the attention of society, lead large numbers of people in uprisings and protests, and even form one of the most influential national unions of the time.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4401.php (891 words)

	Faces of Protest: "Big" Bill Haywood
		Haywood was becoming more militant in his approach to labor conflicts, and Moyer was convinced that compromise and negotiation were the most effective tools for workers to use in dealing with the system.
		Haywood was at the center of a string of dramatic labor conflicts that shook the nation in the years leading to America's entry into World War One.
		Haywood encouraged numerous strikes throughout the nation, and forged an image of the IWW as a group that would use any means at its disposal to change a system it despised.
	www.kued.org /productions/joehill/faces/bill_haywood.html (1669 words)

	William Dudley Haywood Biography \| World of Criminal Justice
		"Big Bill" Haywood spoke for the militant, radical wing of the WFM and led the union's strikes between 1903 and 1905.
		Haywood traveled constantly, organizing for the IWW and leading the union's famous strikes at Lawrence, Massachusetts (1912), and Paterson, New Jersey (1913).He impressed an administrative stability upon the erratic union so that by 1916 it seemed a permanent fixture on the American industrial scene.
		Haywood and a hundred other "Wobbly"leaders were indicted under the Espionage Acts, and after a long (and subsequently discredited) trial Haywood was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a large fine.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-dudley-haywood-cri (497 words)

	Biography of William Big Bill Haywood
		Haywood was born in Salt Lake City in 1869, the son of a Pony Express rider who died of pneumonia when Bill was just three.
		Haywood was suspected of being behind the explosion, and a virtual open season on unionists ensued.
		In 1918, Haywood was convicted of violating a federal espionage and sedition act by calling a strike during wartime.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_BHAY.HTM (712 words)

	JURIST – William "Big Bill" Haywood
		Haywood, Moyer, and Pettibone were placed for a few hours in the city jail, denied permission to call family or lawyers, before being hustled in the early hours of the morning to the Denver depot and placed on a special train with orders not to stop until it crossed the Idaho border.
		Haywood used his time in jail to design new WFM posters, take a correspondence course in law, read books such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and run on the Socialist ticket for governor of Colorado (he received 16,000 votes).
		In 1918, Haywood was tried under an espionage and sedition act for urging a strike in a war-sensitive industry, was convicted and sentenced to thirty years in prison.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /famoustrials/haywood.php (5035 words)

	The Trial of Bill Haywood
		Defendant in the Steunenberg murder case, "Big Bill" Haywood
		War" is not too strong of a term to describe the state of affairs existing between the Western Federation of Miners and the Western Mine Owners' Association at the turn of the twentieth century.
		When the state of Idaho prosecuted William "Big Bill" Haywood in 1907 for ordering the assassination of former governor Frank Steunenberg, fifteen years of union bombings and murders, fifteen years of mine owner intimidation and greed, and fifteen years of government abuse of process and denials of liberties spilled into the national headlines.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/haywood.htm (143 words)

	Big Bill Haywood
		Big Bill Haywood was one of the most important and colorful leaders of the U.S. working class.
		Haywood made a speech to the workers about the need for unity and gave the example of the difference in power between the fingers of an open hand and a clenched fist.
		Haywood, who was in bad physical shape and exhausted, faced 20 years in jail and a fine of $30,000.
	www.geocities.com /mnsocialist/labor2.html (1184 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William "Big Bill" Haywood
		One of the foremost labor radicals of the American West, "Big Bill" Haywood became a leading figure in labor activities across the United States.
		Haywood rose quickly in the union ranks, becoming secretary and president of his local, joining the national union's General Executive Board in 1900, and editing the union's magazine and serving as secretary-treasurer in 1901.
		The defeat of the strikes led Haywood to stress the need for "one big union" which could bring broader support to individual labor struggles; accordingly, in 1905 he played a key role in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), commonly referred to as "the Wobblies."
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/d_h/haywood.htm (546 words)

	The Trial of William D. Big Bill Haywood
		William "Big Bill" Haywood in 1907 for ordering the assassination of former governor Frank Steunenberg, fifteen years of union bombings and murders, fifteen years of mine owner intimidation and greed, and fifteen years of government abuse of process and denials of liberties spilled into the national headlines.
		Clarence Darrow, famed Chicago defense attorney, was hired to work with Richardson in preparing the case for the defense of Bill Haywood, the first of the three prisoners who would face trial.
		Big Trouble, wrote that "rarely in the nation's first century and a quarter had a courtroom harbored four attorneys of such distinction as Hawley, Borah, Richardson, and Darrow." There summations were, at a time when courtroom theater was a popular form of entertainment, greatly anticipated, and their performances did not disappoint.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_ACCT.HTM (4808 words)

	Big Bill Haywood Bibliography
		Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement.
		Roughneck: The life and times of Big Bill Haywood.
		Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood.
	dwardmac.pitzer.edu /Anarchist_Archives/bright/haywood/BBHbiblio.html (110 words)

	BRIA(17:2) The Wobblies, Unions, Workers Strike, Luddites, General Ludd, Industrial Revolution, Globalization, Workers ...
		Big Bill Haywood and most other Wobblies believed the war was a capitalist plot to increase their profits.
		Big Bill Haywood and the others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 20 years plus heavy fines.
		Big Bill was released from prison on bail to work on the IWW court appeal.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria17_2.htm (6103 words)

	Butte Remembers Big Bill Haywood
		The ghost of Big Bill Haywood is stalking the scarred battlements of Butte's copper hill again, prompting and dominating the Butte miners' union, Local No. I of the International Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers- an industrial union.
		Butte was Local No. 1 in the Western Federation of Miners, Bill Haywood's bloody, roaring army of thirty years ago, which fought and died on a hundred fronts in the cause of industrial unionism.
		In the big copper strike of 1934 involving 5,000 men, Butte crafts went out with the miners, though they represented fewer than 500 of the total, with the electrical workers their only important faction.
	newdeal.feri.org /nation/na35514.htm (906 words)

	The Ballad of Commie Spice : by Stefene Russell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Even though he was one of the main forces behind the organization of the International Workers of the World back in 1905, don't mention Haywood's name to a Wobbly unless you want to sit home gingerly applying raw meat to your new fl eye.
		That was the house that would have been filled with the smells of fresh-brewed coffee and mourning clothes the day his father died, when Haywood was three; and maybe that was where he lay in the dark, his face bandaged, when he lost an eye at the age of nine.
		Big Bill Haywood wanted to organize all workers into "One Big Union" so all workers would be one force, undefeatable.
	www.pifmagazine.com /SID/391 (1264 words)

	William "Big Bill" Hayward
		Bill was only seven when he witnessed a person shooting another, then walking nonchalantly into a saloon.
		Although Bill Haywood may sound like a scary man, considering he has one eye, and is big and tall, they people that met him before would say that he is just the opposite.
		William "Big Bill" Haywood was put in jail for disapproving World War I. It was just another lame excuse for the government to arrest the members of IWW, especially Bill.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /dio_rallen/bigbill.html (1321 words)

	Bill Haywood at AllExperts
		Haywood was a leader of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America.
		Haywood threatened the authorities with another strike, saying "Open the jail gates or we will close the mill gates." Legal efforts and a one-day strike on September 30 did not prompt the authorities to drop the charges.
		Haywood and the IWW focused on direct action and strikes, which often led to violence, and were less concerned with political tactics.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bi/bill_haywood.htm (1698 words)

	Hyper Essay For Militant Labor
		Haywood's philosophy was open-minded, in that it wanted to include all ethnic groups nationalities, sex or the skill of the laborer.
		Haywood said, "if you are a wage worker, you are welcome into the IWW halls, no matter what your color" (Foner) and "to get at the mass of workers and bring them up to a decent plane of living".
		Haywood implemented the IWW to face the ongoing struggles America faced with the troubles of laborers.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/haymarket/rice/essay.html (991 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bill Haywood Information
		Elected treasurer-secretary of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in 1900, a member of the Socialist Party from 1901, and one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, ‘Wobblies’) in 1905, his goal was to unite all unions in ‘one big union’.
		In 1905 Haywood was charged with involvement in the murder of Frank Stenunenberg, an anti-union politician and former governor of Idaho, and his acquittal in 1907 made him a hero of the labour movement.
		Haywood was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and became a miner at the age of nine.
	www.allrefer.com /bill-haywood (387 words)

	Haywood, William Dudley. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		1869–1928, American labor leader, known as Big Bill Haywood, b.
		While awaiting a new trial in 1921, he forfeited bail and escaped to the Soviet Union, where he lived for the rest of his life.
		Haywood wrote many articles and prepared his own autobiography, published as Bill Haywood’s Book (1929, repr.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/HaywoodW.html (328 words)

	Haywood, William Dudley - Bisbee Deportation
		In 1905, Haywood was one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World, the One Big Union, dedicated to the notion that the workers and the employers have nothing in common.
		In April, 1918, Haywood and ninety-two other IWW members were convicted of conspiracy, espionage, and sedition, for calling strikes during wartime.
		Haywood skipped bail while awaiting appeal and fled to the Soviet Union, where he died ten years later.
	www.library.arizona.edu /exhibits/bisbee/history/whoswho/william_haywood.html (398 words)

	The General strike By Big Bill Haywood - IWW text
		Born in Salt Lake City, Bill Haywood (1869-1928) went to work in the mines at the age of nine.
		He joined the Western Federation of Miners in 1896 and was active as an executive board member and as secretary-treasurer of that organization until 1907.
		Haywood's pamphlet The General Strike (Chicago, n.d.), published by the I.W.W., was a summary of a speech he gave in New York City on March 16, 1911.
	flag.blackened.net /revolt/hist_texts/gs_bill_haywood.html (3993 words)

	Bill Haywood Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Bill Haywood was born on Wednesday, April 21, 1937, in Colon, Panama.
		Haywood was 31 years old when he broke into the big leagues on July 28, 1968, with the Washington Senators.
		Did you know that you can compare Bill Haywood to other rookies who also had their Major League debut during the 1968 American League season?
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=haywobi01 (295 words)

	Bill Haywood Biography and Summary
		William D. "Big Bill" Haywood rose from the ranks of the miners in Nevada and Idaho to become one of the most renowned and feared labor leaders of his time.
		William Dudley Haywood(February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928), better known as Big Bill Haywood, was a prominent figure in the American labor movement.
		Haywood was a leader of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), a founding member and leader of the...
	www.bookrags.com /Bill_Haywood (207 words)

	General Info - People and Events in Labor History
		It was almost mid-night, when "Big Bill" Haywood answered a knock on his rooming-house door.
		Despite his disreputable past, Orchard was promised immunity in exchange for his testimony that Bill Haywood, Charles Moyer, and George Pettibone, all leaders of the Western Federation of Miners, were co-conspirators in the murder.
		It was McParlan who planned and carried out Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone's "extradition" from Colorado without so much as a warrant for their arrest.
	www.wilaborers.org /generalinfo/laborhistory/events/thekidnappingof.html (518 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Bill Albert
		Bio: Bill Albert was born in New York and grew up in Southern California.
		He had arrived in America in 1887, but we first met him in 1906 when it seemed he may be approaching the end of his story, for he has been arrested for killing the ex-governor of Idaho, a murder which led to one of the most celebrated trials of the period.
		The men questioning him want him to implicate Big Bill Haywood, leader of the IWW and the Western Federation of Miners.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/BillAlberteBooks.htm (286 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Haywood William Dudley - AOL Research & Learn
		Columbia Encyclopedia- Haywood William Dudley - AOL Research & Learn
		While awaiting a new trial in 1921, he forfeited bail and escaped to the Soviet Union, where he lived for the rest of his life.
		Haywood wrote many articles and prepared his own autobiography, published as Bill Haywood's Book (1929, repr.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/haywood-william-dudley/20051206044709990031 (318 words)

	I.W.W. [Wobblies] at Spirit of America Bookstore
		William D. 'Big Bill' Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners presided, and speakers included U.S. presidential candidate [of the Socialist Party] Eugene V. Debs.
		Haywood was convicted of sedition for calling a strike during wartime; released on bail during the appeals process and in ill health, he fled to Russia, where he helped the bolsheviks with their revolution, alongside fellow American John Reed.
		Haywood was the first to go to trial, in what was billed as 'The Trial of the Century'.
	www.genordell.com /stores/spirit/IWW.htm (2592 words)

	Bill Haywood, Communist by Max Eastman
		Bill Haywood is not the IWW, of course, and he is not at present in a position to speak for its executive policies.
		Bill Haywood is no more friendly to the idea of political campaigning, or what is called “parliamentary action,’ than he ever was — not a bit.
		Here Bill Haywood delivered a short eulogy of the Bolshevik revolution, and what he said would astonish a great many people who know him only as the terrible bad Man of America with one eye and a great big Black hat.
	www.marxists.org /archive/eastman/1921/bill-haywood.htm (1473 words)

	Who the hell is Bill Haywood?
		I'm Bill Haywood, which is a pen name taken from the gentleman to the right.
		Big Bill Haywood (1869- 1928), was not known for playing poker.
		Like fellow Wobbly Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood organized strikes against dangerous types like mine owners.
	www.holdemtight.com /pgs/hm/billhaywood.htm (349 words)

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