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Hellraisers Journal – Monday September 29, 1919
History of I. W. W. Written with “Drops of Blood” and “Bitter Tears of Anguish”
From The Butte Daily Bulletin of September 27, 1919:
By WM. D. HAYWOOD.
Ever since the I. W. W. was organized in June, 1905, ther has been an inquisitorial campaign against its life and growth, inaugurated by the chambers of commerce, profiteers, large and small, and authorities of state and nation in temporary power.
The Industrial Workers of the World is a labor organization composed of sober, honest, industrious men and women. Its chief purposes are to abolish the system of wage slavery and to improve the conditions of those who toil.
This organization has been foully dealt with; drops of blood, bitter tears of anguish, frightful heart pains have marked its every step in its onward march of progress…..
[Emphasis added.]
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Appeal for Funds by Wm. D. Haywood
-on Behalf of I. W. W. General Defense Committee
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SOURCE
The Butte Daily Bulletin
(Butte, Montana)
-Sept 27, 1919
Note: the entire text can be read here:
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045085/1919-09-27/ed-1/seq-1/
IMAGES
“With Drops of Blood” by Haywood, 4 pages
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.01805500/?sp=1
See also:
“With Drops of Blood” can be read at these sources:
“WITH DROPS OF BLOOD” by Wm. D. Haywood
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/unions/iww/1920/drops.htm
The One Big Union Monthly
“Published Monthly by the General Executive Board
of the Industrial Workers of the World”
(Chicago Illinois)
IWW, 1919
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858046058511&view=2up&seq=6
Oct 1919-“With Drops of Blood”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858046058511&view=2up&seq=456
Haywood on Writing “With Drops of Blood”
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050276461&view=2up&seq=348
From:
Bill Haywood’s Book
The Autobiography of William D. Haywood
International Publishers, 1929
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050276461&view=2up&seq=6
Chapter XXII-With Drops of Blood
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015050276461&view=2up&seq=342
Tag: Big Bill Haywood
https://weneverforget.org/tag/big-bill-haywood/
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