Today in 1928 William “Big Bill” Haywood – founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, member of the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of America, secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, and an advocate of industrial unionism – dies in the Soviet Union where he had fled after having been found guilty and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the Espionage Act of 1917.
The Association of Retired Members held their Summer Party August 16, 2012 at the UAW Hall in Baltimore. Photos are available for viewing here. Photos by Stan Pietrowski
