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
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.
John Reed (journalist)
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John Silas Reed was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Mas
Bill Haywood
…an appeal of his conviction, Haywood fled to the Soviet Union, where he spent the remaining years of his life and where he died in 1928. Paul Freeman, John Reed, Charles Ruthenberg, William Z. Foster and Haywood are the only five Westerners to be buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis. Haywood was born in 1869…
Reed c. 1916
The Harvard Monthly Vol. 44 (1907)
A native of Oregon, Reed made New York City the base of his operations.
Reed c. 1917