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Today in #LaborHistory 1/11/1912: #IWW #BreadAndRoses textile strike began in Lawrence #Massachusetts. Led by #immigrant #women. 3 workers died.

#ElizabethGurleyFlynn #BigBillHaywood #workingclass #union #strike #police #policebrutality
January 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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March 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 3/23/1918: 101 #IWW members went on trial for opposing #WorldWarI. All were convicted. #BigBillHaywood & 14 others sentenced to 20 yrs in #prison. Fines totaled $2,500,000. Trial virtually destroyed IWW. Haywood jumped bail & fled to #USSR.
March 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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What we need is the #wobblies and a #bigbillhaywood but I can't imagine who would be willing. One big union.
December 12, 2024 at 2:35 AM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 10/7/1879: Radical #IWW labor organizer & song writer #JoeHill was born. Falsely convicted & executed for murder. Famous last words to IWW co-founder #BigBillHaywood were Don’t mourn. Organize.

Paul Robeson sings “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0be...
Paul Robeson sings to Scottish miners (1949)
YouTube video by BFI
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October 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 2/17/1906: #BigBillHaywood falsely arrested for murder of former Idaho Governor. Clarence Darrow won acquittal. Framed by James McParland, #Pinkerton agent. Read more on Pinkertons: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/u...
Image of Big Bill Haywood, in a suit and fedora, hands in pockets, with the quote, “I’ve never ready Marx’s Capital, but I have the marks of capital all over my body.”
February 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 5/18/1928: #BigBillHaywood died in #Soviet Union. Founding member of #WFM & #IWW. Participated in #Colorado Labor Wars, east coast textile strikes. #Pinkertons tried, but failed, to bust him for murder. 1918 convicted under #EspionageAct for #antiwar activity. Fled to #Russia.
Portrait of Big Bill Haywood in a fedora, with the following quote: If the workers are organized, all they have to do is put their hands in their pockets and They have Got the Capitalist Class Whipped.
May 18, 2026 at 1:51 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 2/17/1906: #BigBillHaywood falsely arrested for murder of former Idaho Governor. Clarence Darrow won acquittal. Framed by James McParland, #Pinkerton agent.

Read more on Pinkertons: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/u...
Image of Big Bill Haywood, in a suit and fedora, hands in pockets, with the quote, “I’ve never ready Marx’s Capital, but I have the marks of capital all over my body.”
February 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 8/28/1918: #BigBillHaywood & 14 other members of #IWW #union were sentenced to 20 years #prison for draft obstruction. They opposed World War I because it, like most wars, exploited and sacrificed working class people to benefit the wealthy elites of #capitalism.
Big Bill Haywood's mug shots at Leavenworth prison
August 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 11/23/1903: Army sent to Cripple Creek, #Colorado to put down miners' #rebellion. 600 held weeks in military stockade. #Pinkertons as spies & armed thugs. #Strike led by #BigBillHaywood

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Famous Western Federation of Miners poster entitled "Is Colorado in America?" Shows American flag, with the stripes filled with phrases like: Martial law declared in Colorado; Habeas corpus suspended; Free Press throttled; Free Speech denied; Bull Pens for union men; Union men exiled from homes and families in Colorado; constitutional right to bear arms questioned in colorado;. By Western Federation of Miners - Political Posters, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68853818
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1913: Modestino Valentino, a bystander, killed by company detectives during #IWW Patterson, N.J. Silk #Strike. During strike, 1,850 workers arrested, incl #ElizabethGurleyFlynn & #BigBillHaywood.

#workingclass #union #police #policebrutality
Black and white photo of Modestino Valentino, looking straight ahead, in a stiff collar and suit.
April 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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#nowarbutclasswar
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March 21, 2025 at 10:53 AM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
#Pinkerton agent #JamesMcParland, who framed #BigBillHaywood, also got 20 innocent #union men executed as #MollyMaguires in 1870s. You can read about that in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.” Read my article on the Molly Maguires here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/t...
The Myth of the Molly Maguires - Michael Dunn
The Myth of the Molly Maguires was created by the mine owners to destroy the union
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May 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 2/4/1869: #BigBillHaywood was born. Co-founder of #IWW #union. Organized #WFM during Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), when 33 miners killed. 1907, falsely charged for murder of former Idaho Gov Steunenberg. Later convicted of sedition for antiwar protest. Fled to #Soviet Union
Image of Big Bill Haywood in a suit and fedora, with the quote, “I’ve never read Marx’s Capital, but I have the marks of capitalism all over my body.”
February 4, 2026 at 2:40 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 4/29/1899: Members of #WFM drove a train full of dynamite into Bunker Hill mine #Idaho b/c mine owners kept hiring non- #union men. Authorities imprisoned them in outdoor bullpens. WFM led by #BigBillHaywood, future cofounded of #IWW. #workingclass #strike #sabotage
Prisoners drill with wooden rifles in the "bullpen," Wardner, Idaho, 1899. By uncredited - T. A. Rickard, The Bunker Hill Enterprise (San Francisco: Mining & Scientific Press, 1921) 137., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=55853856
April 29, 2026 at 1:30 PM
helenboydbooks.com
happened upon this today and missed it three years ago but it's May Day.

#IWW #labor #MayDay #BigBillHaywood #MotherJones

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“The Wobblies”: Iconic Film on the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Is Rereleased for May Day
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May 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today In #LaborHistory 4/3/1913: 20,000 workers from #IWW Patterson silk #strike invited to home of socialist mayor to hear socialist speakers. #Strike lasted Feb-July. 5 workers died; >1800 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn.

#workingclass #union #anarchism #socialism
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." By Art Young - The Masses ( Vol. 4, No. 9 ), New York: The Masses Publishing Co., 1913-06https://library.brown.edu/cds/repository2/repoman.php?verb=render&id=1362685292859766&view=pageturner&pageno=15, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75348246
April 3, 2025 at 4:41 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 5/18/1928: #BigBillHaywood died in #Soviet Union. Founding member of #WFM & #IWW. Participated in #Colorado Labor Wars, east coast textile strikes. #Pinkertons tried, but failed, to bust him for murder. 1918 convicted under #EspionageAct for #antiwar activity. Fled to #Russia.
Portrait of Big Bill Haywood in a fedora, with the following quote: If the workers are organized, all they have to do is put their hands in their pockets and They have Got the Capitalist Class Whipped.
May 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 4/19/1913: Modestino Valentino, a bystander, killed by company detectives during #IWW Patterson, N.J. Silk #Strike. During strike, 1,850 workers arrested, incl #ElizabethGurleyFlynn & #BigBillHaywood. #workingclass #union #police #policebrutality
Black and white photo of Modestino Valentino, looking straight ahead, in a stiff collar and suit.
April 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM
liamomaraiv.bsky.social
#Union leader #BigBillHaywood was born in 1869 on #ThisDayInHistory. He was radicalized by the #HaymarketAffair and in 1905 helped found the #IWW. He was arrested in 1917 & found guilty of hindering the draft, but he skipped bail in 1921 & fled to the #USSR where he died in 1928.
February 4, 2026 at 6:30 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 2/1/1913: #IWW Patterson silk workers’ #strike began for 8-hr day & better working conditions. 1,850 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. Led to #GeneralStrike of weavers & millworkers.

#workingclass ##police #prison #vigilantes
Industrial Workers of the World pageant poster to raise funds for striking workers during the Patterson silk strike. Portrays a white working man, kneeling, 1 arm raised, with factories and smokestacks in the background. The pageant was at Madison Square Garden and was performed by the workers, themselves. By Robert Edmond Jones - New Jersey Monthly, Marcia Worth-Baker, January 17, 2013https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/striking-out/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75852908
February 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
#Pinkerton agent #JamesMcParland, who framed #BigBillHaywood, also got 20 innocent #union men executed as #MollyMaguires in 1870s. You can read about that in my novel, “Anywhere But Schuylkill.”

And my article on the Molly Maguires here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/t...
Union Busting and the Pinkertons - Michael Dunn
Union Busting by the Pinkertons was key to the rapid accumulation of wealth by the robber barons like Gowen, Carnegie, Rockefeller
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May 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 5/9/1907: #BigBillHaywood went on trial for murder of former Idaho gov. Steunenberg, who had brutally suppressed state’s miners #strike. Framed by #Pinkerton agent #JamesMcParland. Read my article on Pinkertons here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/u...
1907 photo of defendants Charles Moyer, Bill Haywood, and George Pettibone. By Retrieved from http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAsteunenberg.htm on April 4, 2006.Originally uploaded on en.wikipedia (Transferred by Niklem), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16365356
May 9, 2026 at 3:54 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 2/4/1869: #BigBillHaywood was born. Co-founder of #IWW #union. Organized #WFM during Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), when 33 miners killed. 1907, falsely charged for murder of former Idaho Gov Steunenberg. Later convicted of sedition for antiwar protest. Fled to #Soviet Union
Image of Big Bill Haywood in a suit and fedora, with the quote, “I’ve never read Marx’s Capital, but I have the marks of capitalism all over my body.”
February 4, 2025 at 2:45 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 2/1/1913: #IWW Patterson silk workers’ #strike began for 8-hr day & better working conditions. 1,850 arrested, incl #BigBillHaywood & #ElizabethGurleyFlynn. Led to #GeneralStrike of weavers & millworkers.

#workingclass ##police #prison #vigilantes
Industrial Workers of the World pageant poster to raise funds for striking workers during the Patterson silk strike. Portrays a white working man, kneeling, 1 arm raised, with factories and smokestacks in the background. The pageant was at Madison Square Garden and was performed by the workers, themselves. By Robert Edmond Jones - New Jersey Monthly, Marcia Worth-Baker, January 17, 2013https://njmonthly.com/articles/jersey-living/striking-out/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75852908
February 1, 2026 at 5:24 PM