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THE PASSING OF JUG FILL. The subject of the brief obituary is not the .Mayor of C hicago, hut a man who, twenty years ago, played a far more important and dramatic part on American stage. ‘ Big Fill '’ Haywood came into notoriety first in connection with the Colorado Labour war. when the great railway combines which controlled the Western mining States attempted to crush the labour organisations and enslave the wage-earners, it has always scorned to me. says a writer in lthe Auckland “Star,” that this first Colorado Labour war is one of tfie most shameful episodes in American history, and it is easy to understand how a young man. realising that he and his fellow workers were denied the most elementary rights and were reduced by force to virtual servitude, would he driven to desecration by the consciousness of his helplessness. Unfortunately Haywood was naturally a masterful and reckless man, and lie soeedily plunged into anr.rcnfsm of a violent type. I will not take the responsibility of deciding whether the verdict !n the famous trial of Moyer. Haywood, and Pettibone for the murder of an overseer was a iust one. .But in a very: few years Haywood was the head of the American I.AV.W. and the declared enemy of the existing economic and social order. AMien the office of a strong anti-I.abour paper at Los Angelos was blown up by the Maonamaras. “Big Bill” was credited with being the real loader in the dynamite campaign, pulling the strings behind the scenes, and lie henceforth was a marked man. He made no secret ot his hostility to “hundred per cent Americanism ” during the war. and ultimately he was deported to Bttssm. simple to get liim out of the uas. Now lie has died in Moscow, and one wonders if lie really was a criminal at heart, or simply . a “class-conscious” worker goaded to frenzy by the tyranny of the American “money power,”..
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1928, Page 1
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350Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 Hokitika Guardian, 29 May 1928, Page 1
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