Stand shoulder to shoulder.
You can’t lose.
Yours, fraternally,
W. D. HAYWOOD
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday August 21, 1907
Milwaukee, Wisconsin – Haywood Guest at Socialist Picnic
From The Green Bay Gazette of August 19, 1907:
HAYWOOD GIVEN OVATION
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Twenty Thousand Milwaukeeans
Turn Out to Greet Miner.Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 19.-Twenty thousand men, women, and children crowded Pabst park yesterday afternoon to listen to William D. Haywood, secretary treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, when he addressed the gathering of Milwaukee social democrats at their second picnic of the season.
The picnic was the most successful held by the party in this city and Mr. Haywood was given a most gratifying ovation.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Oshkosh Daily Northwestern of August 15, 1907:
HAYWOOD IS WEARY.
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Round of “Ovations” Exhausting-
Coming to Milwaukee.—–
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Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 15.-Milwaukee socialists have received word that William D. Haywood will reach the city on Saturday [August 17]. The ovations he has received everywhere since the close of the Idaho trial have been more exhausting than the trial itself, and an effort will be made to allow him to rest here before he makes his speech at the Social Democratic picnic at Pabst park on Sunday.
Working people of Chicago are incensed over an affront to Haywood at the Chicago Press club. A member of the Press club invited Haywood to dinner with him at the club restaurant and he was warmly receive. A financial writer named Baker, who had been a member less than a year, fancied that his presence was an affront and tried to get a petition signed protesting to the officers. It is announced that Baker’s conduct will be the subject of an investigation.
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[Photograph added.]
From The Chicago Daily Tribune of Aug 13, 1907:
HAYWOOD AT PRESS CLUB;
PROTEST STARTED; FAILS.
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Man from Idaho Lunches There and
Members Criticise-One Draws Up
Resolution, but Gets No Signers.
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William D. Haywood, fresh from his acquittal of murder by an Idaho jury and with the Sunday kisses of his women admirers at Luna park still lingering on his lips, dropped into the Press club for luncheon yesterday noon at the invitation of Seymour Stedman, lawyer, socialist, and admirer of the western mine workers’ chief.
The news flew rapidly that the lion of the red flag was lunching in the clubrooms. Various writers of news, gossip, and literature flocked to the doors of the dining room and peeped in. Arguments began to sizzle on all sides as to the propriety of the situation. It became apparent that there were many decided opinions one way or the other as to Mr. Stedman’s guest.
Haywood ate on in apparent indifference to the excitement his presence had created-nodding and smiling and talking as if he never had seen the inside of a prison.
Formal Protest Attempted.
It was not until the luncheon was over, however, and the lawyer and his guest had departed, that anything in the nature of a real and formal protest arose. Then it came from Henry D. Baker, a member who held decided views on the propriety of being under the same roof with a man of Haywood’s type and was not afraid to express them. Mr. Baker, who is a writer for a financial and commercial paper, after meditating for a long time, proceeded to the writing room and pounded out a resolution on the typewriter. At the bottom he left a space for names of signers. This space he headed by writing his own name.
The resolution set forth that “whereas, the precincts of the Press club had been contaminated by the presence of a person of Haywood’s type and respectable citizens had been compelled to eat under the same roof with a man who was a disgrace to the labor movement and the miners and the American public, notice should be given that the Press club as a body did not sanction his visit and desired to protest against its recurrence.”
Members Decline to Sign.
It was a sizzling resolution and Mr. Baker bore it to the rooms below and began to circulate it. Then he was informed that he had not conformed to the rules of the club, and while the members might agree with him in his opinion of Haywood there was no reason for a public protest, but that the board of directors should be asked to do something quietly and effectively about the matter. The members, though many of them objected to Haywood, refused to sign the resolution.
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[Photograph added.]
From the Industrial Union Bulletin of August 17, 1907:
Haywood at Headquarters
William D. Haywood visited the general headquarters of the I. W. W., 212 Bush Temple [Trautmann faction], Wednesday afternoon, to make inquiry concerning the progress of the organization and shake hands with the office force, all being glad to welcome him after his long incarceration at Boise, Idaho.
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SOURCES
The Green Bay Gazette
(Green Bay, Wisconsin)
-Aug 19, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/186332570/
The Daily Northwester
(Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
-Aug 15, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/246079857/
The Chicago Daily Tribune
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Aug 13, 1907
https://www.newspapers.com/image/28655504
Industrial Union Bulletin
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Aug 17, 1907
(Also source for image of text within article and image below.)
https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/industrialworker/iub/v1n25-aug-17-1907-iub.pdf
Note: also includes text of Haywood’s speech made at Luna Park in Chicago on Aug 11th.
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IMAGES
Haywood, Wilshire’s Magazine, 1906
http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow/documents/Wilshire_Mag.pdf
HMP, Haywood Reads at Jail Window, Tpk Dly Jr, July 29, 1907
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82016014/1907-07-29/ed-1/seq-6.pdf
Seymour Stedman, Socialist, 1900 wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Stedman
See also:
“Red Flags Barred” in Chicago as Big Bill Haywood Arrives, Nevertheless “Red Flag Waves”
The I. W. W.:
A Study of American Syndicalism
-by Paul F. Brissenden
Columbia University, 1919
https://books.google.com/books?id=4QkAAAAAYAAJ
Chapter V: The Coup of the “Proletarian Rabble” (1906)
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=4QkAAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA136