William Haywood
- “Big Bill” Haywood led the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), founded in 1905
- Refused to sign bargaining agreements with employers
- Organized the most remote workers
- Rejected principle of craft organization into “one big union”
- Instead, members made a commitment to revolution
- “capitalism must be overthrown through struggles”
- Struggles were violent
- Police, National Guardsmen, company security often involved
- Ludlow Massacre, 1913
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