Word: haywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prepare workers for a "Cooperative Commonwealth." Its constitution said: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." It would make only one bargain with employers?complete surrender of industrial control to the workers. A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks. William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from the U. S. in 1921 to escape jail, the political action clauses of the I. W. W. constitution were erased. The "one big union" motif...
...should stagger across the threshold of the Near East Orphanage at Alexandropol in the Soviet Republic of Armenia but Big Bill Haywood, Communist exile, wanted by the U. S. as an inmate of Leaven worth. He begged food, clothes, overnight shelter...
Said he (according to the intensely anti-Bolshevik Chicago Tribune) : "I am Bill Haywood, but I ain't a Bolshevik any more. I wish I had never run away from Leavenworth. I am hungry and homesick, and if I cannot find work in Constantinople I am going back to the United States. I had rather live in Leavenworth any time than Bolshevist Russia. It ain't a white man's country...
Then, in 1907, he became chief counsel for the defense in the trial of the labor leaders, "Big Bill" Haywood (now a fugitive in Russia), Moyer and Pettibone, indicted for the murder of ex-Governor Stuenenburg, of Idaho. He was brilliantly successful in this trial, and when, in April, 1911, the McNamara brothers were arrested for dynamiting the building of the Los Angeles Times and union labor the country over rallied to their support and raised a huge fund for their defense, it surprised nobody that Clarence Darrow, of Chicago, was retained as chief counsel...
...following managerial appointments, already approved by the Miner Sports Council, were finally passed on by the committee: Lyon Boston '26, of New York, second assistant manager of University tennis; Alfred Reginald Allen Jr. '26, of Philadelphia, assistant manager of University tennis; Richard Folsom Haywood '27, of Cincinnatti, Ohio, manager of Freshman tennis; David Waller Bakeless '26, of Bloomberg, Pa., second assistant manager of University lacrosse; and William Brewster '27, manager of Freshman basketball. Alfred Reginald Allen 26 of Philadelphia, winner of the second assistant manager competition in fencing as well as tennis, was appointed manager to replace Richard Aley Durham...