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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.
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. At age nine Bill punctured his right eye with a knife while whittling a slingshot, blinding it for life. (Haywood always turned his head to offer his left profile when photographed, but never replaced his milky, dead eye ...
Big Bill Haywood Biography Trial Biography. One of the foremost labor radicals of the American West, "Big Bill" Haywood became a leading figure in labor activities across the United States. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1869, Haywood had a difficult life. He was only three years old when his father died, and at age nine he both lost an eye ...
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‘Big Bill’ Haywood was not a spy; and although he was a political prisoner, he was far from unknown. Indeed, fifty years ago he was perhaps the most notorious man in American public life. As secretary-treasurer of the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies as the I.W.W were known, he was chief defendant in a five-month trial of the ...
Dec 1, 2018 · William D. Haywood. Pickle Partners Publishing, Dec 1, 2018 - History - 358 pages. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ‘BIG BILL’ HAYWOOD. This is William D. Haywood’s own story, written during the last year of his life. An heroic giant of the American labor movement during its most turbulent years, “Big Bill” was a Socialist and a founder and ...
Description. “Big Bill” Haywood was a legendary Utah labor leader, whose ashes were buried in the Kremlin Wall. In February 1869, William D. Haywood was born in Salt Lake City into a working class family. He would grow up to become “Big Bill” Haywood, one of the most influential and infamous labor leaders in American history.
