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	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.
		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.
		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.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_ACCT.HTM (4817 words)

	Bill Haywood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood (February 4, 1869–May 18, 1928) was a prominent figure in American radical unionism as a leader in the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and later as a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
		Haywood was defended by Clarence Darrow; the prosecutor was William Borah, afterward Senator from Idaho.
		Despite Haywood's involvement in the IWW, which was heavily influenced by anarcho-syndicalism, he was a longtime member of the Socialist Party of America, and often pleaded with workers to vote in elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Haywood (643 words)

	Bill Haywood -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Haywood began working in the (Excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted) mines at age nine where he lost his left eye.
		In 1918, Haywood was convicted of violating federal (The systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets) espionage and (An illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government) sedition acts by calling a strike during wartime.
		Haywood died in (A city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation) Moscow in 1928.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bill_haywood.htm (530 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)

	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)

	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)

	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)

	William Haywood
		Haywood became active in the union campaigns to increase wages and to bring an end to child labour in the mines.
		Haywood was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a fine of $30,000, however, released on bail during the appeal, Haywood fled to Russia.
		William Haywood is the embodiment of the Sorel philosophy, roughened by the American industrial and civic climate, a bundle of primitive instincts, a master of direct statement.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhaywood.htm (1295 words)

	Big Bill Haywood
		Haywood served in many capacities in the WFM and the IWW, as well as in the leadership of the Socialist Party of America.
		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)

	Haywood, William Dudley on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He began work as a miner at 15 years of age.
		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.encyclopedia.com /html/h/haywoodw1.asp (431 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - William "Big Bill" Haywood
		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."
		The jury acquitted Haywood, but businessmen and fellow labor leaders would continue to fear and even hate Haywood for his alleged endorsement of violence and sabotage.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/d_h/haywood.htm (546 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)

	The Trial of Bill Haywood
		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 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and a member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America.
		His trial for the murder of former Idaho Governor, Frank Steunenberg in 1907 (of which he was acquitted) drew national attention; in 1918, he was one of 101 IWW members convicted of violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
	www.id.uscourts.gov /ilhs/BillHaywoodTrial-Main.htm (240 words)

	Bill Haywood Biography Summary
		William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood (February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928) was a prominent figure in American radical unionism as a leader of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) and later as a founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of...
		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.
		Haywood was a leader of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), a founding member and leader of the...
	www.bookrags.com /Bill_Haywood (374 words)

	JURIST - The Trial of William "Big Bill" Haywood
		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.
		In December of 1906, after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Pettibone case, 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.
		On May 9, 1907 the case of State of Idaho versus William D. Haywood was called for trial in Judge Fremont Wood's third-floor courtroom of the Ada County Courthouse.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials22.htm (5068 words)

	Bill Haywood
		Bill Haywood started working in the mines with other children when he was nine years old.
		With Clarence Darrow as his defense attorney and nationwide attention in the media, Haywood was acquitted after it became clear that the key witness against him had committed perjury.
		For his words, Haywood was convicted and sentenced to twenty years in prison, but he announced that he would appeal the verdict, and fled to the Soviet Union while free on bail.
	www.nndb.com /people/585/000160105 (464 words)

	William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood - Bisbee Deportation 1917- UA Library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
	digital.library.arizona.edu /bisbee/bios/haywood.html (399 words)

	The General Strike, By Bill Haywood \| Industrial Workers of the World
		Born in Salt Lake City, Bill Haywood (1869-1928) went to work in the mines at the age of nine.
		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.
		Big Bill Haywood - Well, the time is coming when he will have to quit the A. of L. anyway.
	www.iww.org /culture/official/Haywood1.shtml (4094 words)

	BRIA(17:2) The Wobblies, Unions, Workers Strike, Lubbites, General Ludd, Industrial Revolution, Globalization, Workers ...
		In 1907, Big Bill Haywood was put on trial for the bombing murder of a former Idaho governor.
		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.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria17_2.htm (6103 words)

	AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY: Big Bill Haywood-Working Class Warrior
		Haywood, moreover, is the perfect example of the fact that working class political consciousness is not innate but gained through the hard experiences of life under the capitalist system.
		Not a small part in that was due to his trial on trumped up charges in Idaho for murder as part of a labor crack down against the WFM by the mine owners and their political allies there.
		Secondly, Haywood’s and the IWW’s experience with government repression during World War I, repeated in the “Red Scare” experience of the 1950’s against Communists and then later against the Black Panthers in the 1960’s should be etched into the brain of every militant today.
	markinbookreview.blogspot.com /2008/03/big-bill-haywood-working-class-warrior.html (1167 words)

	Amazon.com: Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement: Joseph Robert. Conlin: Books
		Bill Haywood represented a connecting link which helped to establish continuity between the old movement and the new.
		The career of Haywood is bound up with the stormy events which have marked the course of working-class development in America for 30 years and out of which the basic nucleus of the modern movement has come.
		The fame and outstanding prominence of Haywood as a labor leader even in that day is illustrated by the fact that he was chosen chairman of the historic First Convention of the I.W.W. in 1905.
	www.amazon.com /Bill-Haywood-Radical-Union-Movement/dp/081562140X (1047 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.
		Slow-moving, but powerfully self-possessed and intelligent, Bill Haywood occupies a position of real influence in America among those who are not foolish enough to believe the newspapers.
		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.
	www.marxists.org /archive/eastman/1921/bill-haywood.htm (1473 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 (2516 words)

	REDS AND CAPITALISTS
		Haywood was born at Salt Lake in 1869 and died in 1928; Hammond was born in 1855 at San Francisco and died in 1936.
		Haywood, who started out in Mormon Utah in 1869 [hatched Episcopalian] and died lonely at Moscow [the other one, not Idaho] in 1928: half his ashes in the Kremlin wall and the other half at the consecrated-for-radicals Waldheim Cemetery at Chicago.
		In between, of course, Bill Haywood was the cutting edge of the legendary Western Federation of Miners and a key founder of the Industrial Workers of the World.
	www.hunterbear.org /reds_and_capitalists.htm (3683 words)

	Arson as hate crime bill gets House first round approval
		Louis Representative Haywood says she was motivated by the number of arsons to places of worship.
		The penalty clause to the bill was amended Monday afternoon.
		The bill sponsor is Representative Haywood of St. Louis County.
	www.mdn.org /2002/STORIES/ARSON.HTM (411 words)

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