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Miners, Cowboys & Indians
Homestead & Hard Times
Silver City
The Western Federation of Miners
Telluride
The Houses & Autocracy
Cripple Creek
In the Crucibles of Colorado
Deportation or Death
Industrial Workers of the World
Undesirable Citizens
The Boise Trial
The World Widens
The Lawrence Strike
Article 2, Section 6
The Pageant
The US Industrial Relati ...more
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368 pages
Published
June 1st 1966
by International Publishers (NY)
(first published 1929)
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Clearly edited by the stalinist censors. It does not reflect his disappointment and dissatisfaction with the USSR. A sad ending to a great american labor leader hounded into exile by the US Government red baiters.
Big Bill Haywood was a union organizer back in the days when employers thought nothing of using violent force to compel workers to accept whatever wages and conditions they decided. Of course, when it wasn't enough to hire and arm scabs and gunmen, the employers could always call on a the governor to call in the state militia, or, failing that, the military. Haywood's account of his activities and court trials is pretty interesting, though it is filled with lots of documentation. His account of
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