Today’s Labor Quote: William "Big Bill" Haywood

“We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working class movement. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working class in possession of economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution without regard to capitalist masters.”

From the address by the American radical labor leader to delegates at the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World, which concluded on this date in 1905 in Chicago.

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