Colorado Labor Wars
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The Colorado Labor Wars were a series of labor strikes in 1903 and 1904 in the U.S. state of Colorado, by gold and silver miners and mill workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners. Oppos
"Victor, Colorado, The Scene Of The Rioting Of June 6th", c. 1904.
Pinkerton Detective Agency detective James McParland, seen here some time in the 1880s.
The "Last Dollar" and other mines, Independence, Colorado, c. 1904.
View of Cripple Creek, c. 1900.
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
Colorado Labor Wars
…confrontation at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho which ended with hundreds of union miners locked up by the militia in temporary prisons. WFM Secretary-Treasurer Bill Haywood concluded that the companies and their supporters in government were conducting class warfare against the working class.p. 55 At their 1901 convention…
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.