Big Bill Haywood
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Please don’t tell me Big Bill was a Maoist or supported the IRA!.I just like this quote.
We have the biography of Haywood in the library. He was the leader of the Mineworkers union in the States, and also a big noise, IIRC, in the IWW. He was serially tried for murder during the violence that accompanied the typical strikes in the US mining fields, and eventually emigrated to the USSR where he lived out a quiet life, and IIRC died of alcoholism (he was an orthodox CPer by that point). Just double checked his Wikipedia article… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood
Young Master Smeet wrote:We have the biography of Haywood in the library. He was the leader of the Mineworkers union in the States, and also a big noise, IIRC, in the IWW. He was serially tried for murder during the violence that accompanied the typical strikes in the US mining fields, and eventually emigrated to the USSR where he lived out a quiet life, and IIRC died of alcoholism (he was an orthodox CPer by that point). Just double checked his Wikipedia article… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_HaywoodWell, I wasn’t after this sort of response as it detracts from the comment. Rather like Lennon and Imagine, but having read it! Big John shoots up in my estimation. The way miners were abused in those days then fucking off to Russia and joining the Communist Party sounds like a better option. I certainly would have followed. After all Harry Young preferred the communist party to the SPGB in the old days. Had Big John had the benefit of living in the 21st Century he would probably have joined the SPGB. So thank you comrade, Big John goes on my list of respected people, but I am not about to organise a pilgrimage:o)
ALB wrote:Sounds a bit like the Golden Rule: those who own the gold make the rules.It certainly does comrade!
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