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William Dudley Haywood (February 4, 1869 – May 18, 1928), nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American labor organizer and 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.
May 14, 2024 · Bill Haywood was an American radical who led the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or “Wobblies”) in the early decades of the 20th century. A miner at the age of 15, Haywood became active in the Western Federation of Miners and was elected its secretary treasurer.
The Lost Leader: William D. Haywood Patrick Renshaw introduces an archetypal twentieth century figure: the American Trade Unionist who fled to Russia and who Comintern believed they could use to lead an American Bolshevik revolution.
By Bill Haywood (March 16, 1911) 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.
Jun 11, 2018 · American labor leader and one of his era's most notorious radicals, William Dudley Haywood (1869-1928) led the Industrial Workers of the World during that union's heyday. William Haywood was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, into a working-class family. His father died when Haywood was 3 years old.
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.
William Dudley “Big Bill” Haywood (1869–1928), a labor activist in the late 1800s and early 1900s, was the most prominent leader of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM), the largest union ever operating in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain states.
