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I made this post on Redbadbear acouple of days ago =E2=80=93 and I think I=
=E2=80=99ll expand it a lot and send it out to ourdiscussion lists.William =
D Haywood, of the WFM and the IWW,quoted therein, was a down to earth guy a=
nd, like most Westerners, a man ofdirect statement. He came of age early on=
in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho andhoneymooned at embryonic Pocatello with his =
bride, Nevada Jane Minor. (Hisbrother in law, Tom Minor, was a leading rode=
o man in the West.) Fortunatelyfor his very well spent life and good works,=
Bill Haywood never becameentangled in intricate ideology.
The often black garbed andconsistently masked types, who hang on around the=
edges of thoughtful andnonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing minor=
violence and thus playinginto the hands and words of right-wingers, strike=
me as being kids from affluentbackgrounds whose parents, if concerned abou=
t their roles, should cart them offto a good shrink.
Media people who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying theirconsider=
able ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements. Anarchists,in mo=
st of the last hundred years and more, are almost always gentle souls,frequ=
ently devoted to good works. One thinks of the Catholic Workers.
These media comments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had b=
eena close associate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bil=
lHaywood was no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to m=
yelderly friend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't knowana=
rchism from arnica."
Bill Haywood, and others of hisnature and his times, should be much better =
known than they are in this country=E2=80=93 so sorely in need of broad bas=
ed, vital and home-grown radicalism.Here is more from me on Haywood.
BIG BILLHAYWOOD [AN APPRECIATION] HUNTER GRAY 4/16/03
Note byHunter Bear:
These past several days, as a number of socialist"respectables" and ex-radi=
cals and some liberals mounttheir latest efforts against Cuba [and, in a ve=
ry real way, against Leftsocialism] via a statement whose final sentence re=
fers to thatperennially threatened and embattled Revolutionary country as"j=
ust one more dictatorship, concerned with maintaining its monopoly ofpower =
above all else," I've been thinking a good deal about Big BillHaywood.
He was anenduring Red socialist and Wobbly -- always with guts -- whowas fr=
equently attacked by the Yellows but who Kept Fighting all the waythrough. =
He's been a hero of mine ever since I was a boy inthe Arizona mountains. Bu=
t I never saw his book until very early in 1955when I read that great autob=
iography -- Bill Haywood's Book[1929] -- in a Wobbly Hall on Seattle's Skid=
Road. There, coffee and stew pots perked and old-timers spent many hoursin=
deed telling their rich and dramatic stories of Strikes and Struggle toan e=
ager kid, just recently out of the U.S. Army-- and now out to Save the Worl=
d. The old library in thatIWW bastion -- where the framed photographs of th=
e GreatMartyrs [Joe Hill, Frank Little, Wesley Everest] looked downfrom the=
wall -- contained many hundreds of books: mostly radicalones, and some fin=
e fictional works as well.=20
But BillHaywood's book -- there so heavily read it was almost falling apart=
-- wasmy favorite and when, after wandering and unwinding through theInter=
mountain West, I finally arrived home at Flagstaff, my parents werequick to=
call a used bookdealer via an Atlantic Monthly ad. Andan excellent copy so=
on arrived which I still have. And happily,in 1958, its publisher -- Intern=
ational -- brought out an on-going newedition and, from time to time, I sec=
ured those, eventually giving copies overthe years to my children along wit=
h copies of another great classic,that by Haywood's life-long friend, Ralph=
Chaplin: Wobbly [1948].=20
Several studiesof Haywood began to emerge by the end of the '60s -- notably=
abook by Joe Conlin: Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement[1969]=
. A popular bio came forth in 1983 -- Roughneck, by Peter Carlson. I took a=
dvantage of its appearance to do a substantial review essay forthe Wisconsi=
n Magazine of History -- a big and solidly academic [but alwaysreadable] jo=
urnal. Here it is --the lead book review in the Winter1983-84 issue of the =
WMH:
Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood. By PeterCarlson. [W.W. N=
orton & Co., New York, 1983. Pp. 352. Photographs,notes on sources, index. =
$17.50.] Reviewed by John R Salter, Jr[Hunter Gray]
In the concluding portion of Roughneck, a biography of William D. "BigBill"=
Haywood, author Peter Carlson perceives the Haywood legend assomething whi=
ch "withered and died" soon after his 1928 death in theSoviet Union, becomi=
ng "a footnote in history books, a name entombed industy archives, a faded =
photograph on a yellowed newspaper clipping." This may be have been true in=
the fickle U.S. East. But when thisreviewer was growing up in the Northern=
Arizona mountains in the 1950s, thememories of Utah-born Haywood, one of A=
merica's great radicals, and of his twoprimary organizations -- the Western=
Federation of Miners [WFM] and theIndustrial Workers of the World [IWW] --=
had lost little of theirfreshness and lustre. And in the early 1960s at To=
ugaloo College, mystudents and I studied the historical IWW, its tactics, a=
nd its leaders veryclosely as we developed the massive Wobbly-type Jackson =
Movement inMississippi's capital.
Carlson's book, more than a half-century after Haywood's passing, and in an=
erawhen too few survive of the red card-carrying old timers who followed t=
he shooting-starsof the IWW ["Organization, Education, Emancipation"], is d=
esigned tocover the activist and personal dimensions of Haywood from the 19=
th centurywestern frontier through increasingly and bitter class warfare in=
to the late1920s and his death. Roughneck is sympathetically [and well] wri=
tten andis a fairly detailed synthesis drawn mostly from various other work=
s on the WFMand the IWW and less from archival materials and author-conduct=
ed interviews.
The events of the Haywood/WFM/IWW saga are basically covered. Among themare=
Haywood's birth in 1869 at Salt Lake City and his boyhood in Ophir, hisear=
ly work in the mines of Nevada and his experiences as cowboy andhomesteader=
, the impact on Haywood of Haymarket anarchist martyrdom [1887], hisgrowing=
involvement within the WFM in the late 1890s and early 1900s, and hisrise =
to national secretary-treasurer of that increasingly radical industrialunio=
n, the founding of the egalitarian and syndicalist IWW in 1905 andHaywood's=
eventual ascendancy some years later to the top post ofsecretary-treasurer=
, the Haywood/Moyer/Pettibone Idaho murder frameup[1906-1907], the great st=
rikes such as Cripple Creek [1903-1904], Lawrence [1912], Paterson [1913], =
Western copper and lumber [1917], andfarmworker organizational drives in 19=
10s. The roll call of Wobblymartyrs is set forth, e.g., Joe Hill [1915], Ev=
erett Massacre victims [1916],Frank Little [1917], Wesley Everest [1919]. C=
arlson touches the IWWconflicts with the craft-oriented AFL and the "yellow=
" Socialists,and sketches a graphic picture of the corporation-initiated an=
dgovernment-backed domestic hysteria and repression which culminated in U.S=
. ofAmerica vs. William D. Haywood et al. and related examples of "legal"at=
tacks and in bloody vigilante activities -- all of which made a mockery oft=
he Constitution and the United States justice system during and after World=
War I. The rise of the Communist movement and the decline of the IWW,Haywoo=
d's 1921 flight to the Soviet Union, and his final years in that settingrou=
nd out the chronological scope of the book. Problems between Haywoodand his=
wife, Nevada Jane, their eventual separation, his mistresses, his greatlov=
e for his daughters, as well as his drinking and health problems, are allwe=
ll integrated into the primarily activist-oriented thrust of the book.=20
Minor flaws involve misspelling several individuals' names, inaccurately na=
mingseveral reference works, and misspelling Mormon "Morman" a number oftim=
es. More fundamentally, several important works are not listed and,too, the=
re is little exploration of the key issues in radical circles of theperiod =
[issues which are still very much to the fore today] in which Haywoodwas de=
eply involved: pragmatism vs. ideology, centralization vs. decentralization=
,political action vs. direct action, nonviolence vs. violence, the rights o=
fminorities and women. The frontier origins of American syndicalism andits =
development -- still an appealing perspective to many in a time when thesam=
e basic socio-economic-political problems faced by Haywood and hiscolleague=
s continue, with the more recent addition of massive bureaucracy -- isscarc=
ely discussed. Various individuals closely associated with Haywood,e.g., Ra=
lph Chaplin, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon, Mabel Dodge,Eliza=
beth Flynn, Emma Goldman, Samuel Gompers, Thomas J. Hagerty, Mother Jones,F=
rank Little, John Reed, Vincent St. John, could be much more fully depicted=
.
Carlson's assessment of Haywood is general and not much more than two parag=
raphsexemplified by "the blows he landed left his enemies a little weaker a=
nd alot more willing to compromise with the reformers who followed in hiswa=
ke." Carlson's perception of Haywood's relationship to the SovietUnion ["Wh=
en his naivet=C3=A9 was crushed by the cruel realities of the RussianRevolu=
tion, Haywood was left a bitter, broken man"] may very well betrue. But lit=
tle evidence is offered by Carlson to justify thisconclusion, for which con=
siderably more evidence does in fact exist than, say,in the case of John Re=
ed.
Within its limits, Roughneck is a sound piece of craftsmanship. But it isno=
t art nor is it a full study of Haywood. It is popular biography,offering l=
ittle that is new to those already familiar with the period and itsissues a=
nd organizations and participants. It is, however, fun to readand a good in=
troductory stream which, hopefully, will encourage thoseinterested "new-tim=
ers" to pursue the man and the lessons in suchimportant works as Bill Haywo=
od's Book: The Autobiography of William D.Haywood [1929 and various recent =
editions], The I.W.W.: Its First SeventyYears[1905-1975] by Fred Thompson a=
nd Patrick Murfin, Wobbly: The Rough andTumble Story of an American Radical=
[1948] by Ralph Chaplin, and JosephConlin's Big Bill Haywood and the Radic=
al Union Movement [1969]. Hopefully, too, a full biography of Big Bill will=
ultimately appear -- doing sowell before the centennial of his death!
John R. Salter, Jr. [University of North Dakota](now Hunter Gray)
The often black garbed and consistently masked types, who hang on around th=
e edges of thoughtful and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing min=
or violence and thus playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, str=
ike me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned =
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.
Mediapeople who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying theirconsidera=
ble ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements. Anarchists, in mo=
st of the last hundred years and more, are almost alwaysgentle souls, frequ=
ently devoted to good works. One thinks of the CatholicWorkers.
These mediacomments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had be=
en a closeassociate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill=
Haywoodwas no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my=
elderlyfriend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know ana=
rchismfrom arnica."
Hunter Bear
The often black garbed and consistently masked types, who hang on around th=
e edges of thoughtful and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing min=
or violence and thus playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, str=
ike me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned =
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.
Mediapeople who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying theirconsidera=
ble ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements. Anarchists, in mo=
st of the last hundred years and more, are almost alwaysgentle souls, frequ=
ently devoted to good works. One thinks of the CatholicWorkers.
These mediacomments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had be=
en a closeassociate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill=
Haywoodwas no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my=
elderlyfriend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know ana=
rchismfrom arnica."
Hunter Bear
The often black garbed and consistently masked types, who hang on around th=
e edges of thoughtful and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing min=
or violence and thus playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, str=
ike me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned =
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.
Mediapeople who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying theirconsidera=
ble ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements. Anarchists, in mo=
st of the last hundred years and more, are almost alwaysgentle souls, frequ=
ently devoted to good works. One thinks of the CatholicWorkers.
These mediacomments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had be=
en a closeassociate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill=
Haywoodwas no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my=
elderlyfriend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know ana=
rchismfrom arnica."
Hunter Bear
The often black garbed and consistently masked types, who hang on around th=
e edges of thoughtful and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing min=
or violence and thus playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, str=
ike me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned =
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.
Mediapeople who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying theirconsidera=
ble ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements. Anarchists, in mo=
st of the last hundred years and more, are almost alwaysgentle souls, frequ=
ently devoted to good works. One thinks of the CatholicWorkers.
These mediacomments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had be=
en a closeassociate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill=
Haywoodwas no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my=
elderlyfriend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know ana=
rchismfrom arnica."
Hunter Bear
HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / =
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and Ohkwari' . Check out our massive social justice website:=20
www.hunterbear.org
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http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm
My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20
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</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: =
normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"=
Calibri">I made this post on Redbadbear a
couple of days ago =E2=80=93 and I think I=E2=80=99ll expand it a lot =
and send it out to our
discussion lists.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>William D=
Haywood, of the WFM and the IWW,
quoted therein, was a down to earth guy and, like most Westerners, a man of
direct statement. He came of age early on in Utah, Nevada, and Idaho and
honeymooned at embryonic Pocatello with his bride, Nevada Jane Minor. (His
brother in law, Tom Minor, was a leading rodeo man in the West.) Fortunatel=
y
for his very well spent life and good works, Bill Haywood never became
entangled in intricate ideology.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;"> &n=
bsp; </span></font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman=
" size=3D"3">
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"=
Calibri">The often black garbed and
consistently masked types, who hang on around the edges of thoughtful and
nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing minor violence and thus playi=
ng
into the hands and words of right-wingers, strike me as being kids from aff=
luent
backgrounds whose parents, if concerned about their roles, should cart them=
off
to a good shrink.<br>
<br>
Media people who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying their
considerable ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements. Anarchis=
ts,
in most of the last hundred years and more, are almost always gentle souls,
frequently devoted to good works. One thinks of the Catholic Workers.<br>
<br>
These media comments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had b=
een
a close associate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill
Haywood was no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my
elderly friend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know
anarchism from arnica."</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman"=
size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: =
normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"=
Calibri">Bill Haywood, and others of his
nature and his times, should be much better known than they are in this cou=
ntry
=E2=80=93 so sorely in need of broad based, vital and home-grown radicalism=
.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is more from me on H=
aywood.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">BIG BILL
HAYWOOD [AN APPRECIATION] HUNTER GRAY 4/16/03</font></span></b>=
</p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Note by
Hunter Bear:<br>
<br>
These past several days, as a number of socialist
"respectables" and ex-radicals and some liberals mount
their latest efforts against Cuba [and, in a very real way, against Le=
ft
socialism] via a statement whose final sentence refers to th=
at
perennially threatened and embattled Revolutionary country as
"just one more dictatorship, concerned with maintaining its monopoly of
power above all else," I've been thinking a good deal about Big Bill
Haywood.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p><fo=
nt face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">He was an
enduring Red socialist and Wobbly -- always with guts -- who
was frequently attacked by the Yellows but who Kept Fighting all the w=
ay
through. He's been a hero of mine ever since I was a boy in
the Arizona mountains. But I never saw his book until very early in 19=
55
when I read that great autobiography -- Bill Haywood's Book
[1929] -- in a Wobbly Hall on Seattle's Skid Road.&nbs=
p;
There, coffee and stew pots perked and old-timers spent many hours
indeed telling their rich and dramatic stories of Strikes and Str=
uggle to
an eager kid, just recently out of the U.S. Army
-- and now out to Save the World. The old library in t=
hat
IWW bastion -- where the framed photographs of the Great
Martyrs [Joe Hill, Frank Little, Wesley Everest] looked dow=
n
from the wall -- contained many hundreds of books: mostly radical
ones, and some fine fictional works as well. </font></span></b></=
p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p><fo=
nt face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">But Bill
Haywood's book -- there so heavily read it was almost falling apart -- =
;was
my favorite and when, after wandering and unwinding through the
Intermountain West, I finally arrived home at Flagstaff, my parents we=
re
quick to call a used bookdealer via an Atlantic Monthly ad. And
an excellent copy soon arrived which I still have. And happ=
ily,
in 1958, its publisher -- International -- brought out an on-going ne=
w
edition and, from time to time, I secured those, eventually giving copies o=
ver
the years to my children along with copies of another great class=
ic,
that by Haywood's life-long friend, Ralph Chaplin: Wobbly [1948].&nbs=
p; </font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p><fo=
nt face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-height: 107=
%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Several studies
of Haywood began to emerge by the end of the '60s -- notably a
book by Joe Conlin: Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movem=
ent
[1969]. A popular bio came forth in 1983 -- Roughneck, by Peter Carls=
on.
I took advantage of its appearance to do a substantial review essay fo=
r
the Wisconsin Magazine of History -- a big and solidly academic [but always
readable] journal. Here it is --the lead book review in the Wint=
er
1983-84 issue of the WMH:<br>
<br>
</font><font face=3D"Calibri"><i>Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big=
Bill Haywood. By Peter
Carlson. [W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1983. Pp. 352. Photographs=
,
notes on sources, index. $17.50.] Reviewed by John R Salter, Jr
[Hunter Gray]<br>
</i><br>
In the concluding portion of Roughneck, a biography of William D. "Big
Bill" Haywood, author Peter Carlson perceives the Haywood legend as
something which "withered and died" soon after his 1928 death in the
Soviet Union, becoming "a footnote in history books, a name entombed in
dusty archives, a faded photograph on a yellowed newspaper clipping."
This may be have been true in the fickle U.S. East. But when this
reviewer was growing up in the Northern Arizona mountains in the 1950s, the
memories of Utah-born Haywood, one of America's great radicals, and of his =
two
primary organizations -- the Western Federation of Miners [WFM] and the
Industrial Workers of the World [IWW] -- had lost little of their
freshness and lustre. And in the early 1960s at Tougaloo College, my
students and I studied the historical IWW, its tactics, and its leaders ver=
y
closely as we developed the massive Wobbly-type Jackson Movement in
Mississippi's capital.<br>
<br>
Carlson's book, more than a half-century after Haywood's passing, and in an=
era
when too few survive of the red card-carrying old timers who followed the s=
hooting-stars
of the IWW ["Organization, Education, Emancipation"], is designed to
cover the activist and personal dimensions of Haywood from the 19th century
western frontier through increasingly and bitter class warfare into the lat=
e
1920s and his death. Roughneck is sympathetically [and well] written =
and
is a fairly detailed synthesis drawn mostly from various other works on the=
WFM
and the IWW and less from archival materials and author-conducted interview=
s.<br>
<br>
The events of the Haywood/WFM/IWW saga are basically covered. Among t=
hem
are Haywood's birth in 1869 at Salt Lake City and his boyhood in Ophir, his
early work in the mines of Nevada and his experiences as cowboy and
homesteader, the impact on Haywood of Haymarket anarchist martyrdom [1887],=
his
growing involvement within the WFM in the late 1890s and early 1900s, and h=
is
rise to national secretary-treasurer of that increasingly radical industria=
l
union, the founding of the egalitarian and syndicalist IWW in 1905 and
Haywood's eventual ascendancy some years later to the top post of
secretary-treasurer, the Haywood/Moyer/Pettibone Idaho murder frameup
[1906-1907], the great strikes such as Cripple Creek [1903-1904],
Lawrence [1912], Paterson [1913], Western copper and lumber [1917], and
farmworker organizational drives in 1910s. The roll call of Wobbly
martyrs is set forth, e.g., Joe Hill [1915], Everett Massacre victims [1916=
],
Frank Little [1917], Wesley Everest [1919]. Carlson touches the IWW
conflicts with the craft-oriented AFL and the "yellow" Socialists,
and sketches a graphic picture of the corporation-initiated and
government-backed domestic hysteria and repression which culminated in U.S.=
of
America vs. William D. Haywood et al. and related examples of "legal"
attacks and in bloody vigilante activities -- all of which made a mockery o=
f
the Constitution and the United States justice system during and after Worl=
d
War I. The rise of the Communist movement and the decline of the IWW,
Haywood's 1921 flight to the Soviet Union, and his final years in that sett=
ing
round out the chronological scope of the book. Problems between Haywo=
od
and his wife, Nevada Jane, their eventual separation, his mistresses, his g=
reat
love for his daughters, as well as his drinking and health problems, are al=
l
well integrated into the primarily activist-oriented thrust of the book. <b=
r>
<br>
Minor flaws involve misspelling several individuals' names, inaccurately na=
ming
several reference works, and misspelling Mormon "Morman" a number of
times. More fundamentally, several important works are not listed and=
,
too, there is little exploration of the key issues in radical circles of th=
e
period [issues which are still very much to the fore today] in which Haywoo=
d
was deeply involved: pragmatism vs. ideology, centralization vs. dece=
ntralization,
political action vs. direct action, nonviolence vs. violence, the rights of
minorities and women. The frontier origins of American syndicalism an=
d
its development -- still an appealing perspective to many in a time when th=
e
same basic socio-economic-political problems faced by Haywood and his
colleagues continue, with the more recent addition of massive bureaucracy -=
- is
scarcely discussed. Various individuals closely associated with Haywo=
od,
e.g., Ralph Chaplin, Clarence Darrow, Eugene Debs, Daniel DeLeon, Mabel Dod=
ge,
Elizabeth Flynn, Emma Goldman, Samuel Gompers, Thomas J. Hagerty, Mother Jo=
nes,
Frank Little, John Reed, Vincent St. John, could be much more fully depicte=
d.<br>
<br>
Carlson's assessment of Haywood is general and not much more than two parag=
raphs
exemplified by "the blows he landed left his enemies a little weaker and a
lot more willing to compromise with the reformers who followed in his
wake." Carlson's perception of Haywood's relationship to the Soviet
Union ["When his naivet=C3=A9 was crushed by the cruel realities of the Rus=
sian
Revolution, Haywood was left a bitter, broken man"] may very well be
true. But little evidence is offered by Carlson to justify this
conclusion, for which considerably more evidence does in fact exist than, s=
ay,
in the case of John Reed.<br>
<br>
Within its limits, Roughneck is a sound piece of craftsmanship. But i=
t is
not art nor is it a full study of Haywood. It is popular biography,
offering little that is new to those already familiar with the period and i=
ts
issues and organizations and participants. It is, however, fun to rea=
d
and a good introductory stream which, hopefully, will encourage those
interested "new-timers" to pursue the man and the lessons in such
important works as Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William =
D.
Haywood [1929 and various recent editions], The I.W.W.: Its First Seventy
Years[1905-1975] by Fred Thompson and Patrick Murfin, Wobbly: The Rough and
Tumble Story of an American Radical [1948] by Ralph Chaplin, and Joseph
Conlin's Big Bill Haywood and the Radical Union Movement [1969].
Hopefully, too, a full biography of Big Bill will ultimately appear -- doin=
g so
well before the centennial of his death!<br>
<br>
John R. Salter, Jr. [University of North Dakota]<span style=3D"mso-spacerun=
: yes;"> </span>(now Hunter Gray)<br style=3D"mso-special-character: =
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and consistently masked types, who hang on around the edges of thought=
ful
and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing minor violence and t=
hus
playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, stri=
ke
me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.</font><=
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people who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying their
considerable ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements.
Anarchists, in most of the last hundred years and more, are almost always
gentle souls, frequently devoted to good works. One thinks of the Catholic
Workers.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">These media
comments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had been a close
associate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill Hay=
wood
was no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my elderly
friend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know anarchism
from arnica."</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3=
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span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; mso-hide: =
all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">The often black garbed
and consistently masked types, who hang on around the edges of thought=
ful
and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing minor violence and t=
hus
playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, stri=
ke
me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.</font><=
/span></b></li><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Media
people who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying their
considerable ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements.
Anarchists, in most of the last hundred years and more, are almost always
gentle souls, frequently devoted to good works. One thinks of the Catholic
Workers.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">These media
comments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had been a close
associate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill Hay=
wood
was no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my elderly
friend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know anarchism
from arnica."</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3=
">
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1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><=
span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; mso-hide: =
all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">The often black garbed
and consistently masked types, who hang on around the edges of thought=
ful
and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing minor violence and t=
hus
playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, stri=
ke
me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.</font><=
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Media
people who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying their
considerable ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements.
Anarchists, in most of the last hundred years and more, are almost always
gentle souls, frequently devoted to good works. One thinks of the Catholic
Workers.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: =
normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri"> </font></span></b></p><font fa=
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">These media
comments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had been a close
associate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill Hay=
wood
was no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my elderly
friend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know anarchism
from arnica."</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3=
">
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all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">The often black garbed
and consistently masked types, who hang on around the edges of thought=
ful
and nonviolent protest demonstrations, practicing minor violence and t=
hus
playing into the hands and words of right-wingers, stri=
ke
me as being kids from affluent backgrounds whose parents, if concerned
about their roles, should cart them off to a good shrink.</font><=
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">Media
people who refer to these as "anarchists" are betraying their
considerable ignorance of radicalism and social protest movements.
Anarchists, in most of the last hundred years and more, are almost always
gentle souls, frequently devoted to good works. One thinks of the Catholic
Workers.</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b style=3D"mso-bidi-font-weight: =
normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
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normal;"><span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt; display: none; =
mso-hide: all;"><font face=3D"Calibri">These media
comments bring to mind a very old-time Wobbly friend, who had been a close
associate of William D Haywood, that I knew sixty years ago. Bill Hay=
wood
was no anarchist, nor were the Wobblies, but he had commented to my elderly
friend, back in the Old Time, that the newspapermen "don't know anarchism
from arnica."</font></span></b></p><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3=
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HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / =
St. Regis Mohawk=20
<br>
Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20
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and Ohkwari' . Check out our massive social justice website:=20
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Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course:
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<a href=3D"http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm" mce_href=3D"http://=
www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm">http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbe=
ar.htm</a>
<br>
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My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20
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JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20
<br>
word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20
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confrontational social justice organizing life to=20
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date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20
<br>
methodology: <a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm" mce_href=3D"http=
://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm">http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm</a>
<br>
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See this for mini-bio, efforts to prevent JM=E2=80=99s appearance in
<br>
Mississippi, a wide range of its many reviews, and some
<br>
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=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0" mce_href=3D"http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001K=
MEHWY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0">http://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Salter/e/B001KMEH=
WY/ref=3Dntt_dp_epwbk_0</a>
<br>
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The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20
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href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm">http://=
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