1913 Paterson silk strike
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The 1913 Paterson silk strike was a work stoppage involving silk mill workers in Paterson, New Jersey. The strike involved demands for establishment of an eight-hour day and improved working condition
Strike leaders Patrick L. Quinlan, Carlo Tresca, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Adolph Lessig, and Bill Haywood.
Paterson, New Jersey with the textile mills on the right, c. 1906.
Political cartoon of a silk producer who is holding a flag on which is written "To hell with your laws! I'll get Haywood. Elizabeth Flynn, or anyone else who interferes with my profits."
Industrial Workers of the World pageant poster
Bill Haywood
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William Dudley Haywood, nicknamed "Big Bill", was an American labor organizer and founding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World and a member of the executive committee of the Socia
1913 Paterson silk strike
…later, on July 28. During the course of the strike, approximately 1,850 strikers were arrested, including Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) leaders Bill Haywood and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Paterson's strike was part of a series of industrial strikes in the garment and textile industries of the American East…
Haywood c. 1913
Industrial Workers of the World stickerette "Thief!"
1907 photo of defendants Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood, and George Pettibone
Haywood was the co-author of a popular exposition of the principles of industrial unionism published by Charles H. Kerr & Co. in 1911.