Today's Labor Quote: “Big Bill” Haywood

​At the first meeting of the IWW (see History, below), which he gaveled to order in true working class style with a plain wooden board. 
"This is the Continental Congress of the working class. We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working class..." 

photo: Haywood at the 1917 IWW convention

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