In a 1983 biography of this man, Peter Carlson dubs him Roughneck.
In a 1983 biography of this man, Peter Carlson dubs him Roughneck. He punctured his eye in a whittling accident at the age of nine, so he only allowed himself to be photographed on the left side, and quickly came under the tutelage of Ed Boyce. Along with Charles Moyer and George Pettibone, he'd be accused by Harry Orchard of murdering the ex-governor of Idaho Frank Steunenberg, and defended in that trial by Clarence Darrow. Later, he'd be convicted under the Espionage Act of 1917 and flee to live the rest of his life in Russia, a fitting end for a lifelong Socialist. FTP, name this man who led the Wobblies or Industrial Workers of the World, a labor activist known as "Big Bill."
In a 1983 biography of this man, Peter Carlson dubs him Roughneck.
William Dudley “Big Bill” {Haywood}