His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

The IWW was shaped in part by the industrial unionism philosophy of Big Bill Haywood, and in 1910 Haywood was exposed to sabotage while touring Europe:

The experience that had the most lasting impact on Haywood was witnessing a general strike on the French railroads.

The other faction, led by Vincent Saint John, William Trautmann, and Big Bill Haywood, believed that direct action in the form of strikes, propaganda, and boycotts was more likely to accomplish sustainable gains for working people ; they were opposed to arbitration and to political affiliation.

" Yet when a declaration of war was passed by the U. S. Congress in April 1917, the IWW's general secretary-treasurer Bill Haywood became determined that the organization should adopt a low profile in order to avoid perceived threats to its existence.

It was known as Haywood High School in the late seventies until 2006, when it was renamed as Wyebridge Sports College.

" It was better, Haywood said, to " elect the superintendent of some branch of industry, than to elect some congressman to the United States Congress.

The Cooper Union speech was the beginning of a split between Bill Haywood and the Socialist Party, leading to the split between the factions of the IWW, one faction loyal to the Socialist Party, and the other to Haywood.

The final straw between Haywood and the Socialist Party came during the Lawrence textile strike when, disgusted with the decision of the elected officials in Lawrence, Massachusetts, to send police who subsequently used their clubs on children, Haywood publicly declared that " I will not vote again " until such a circumstance was rectified.

Haywood was purged from the National Executive Committee by passage of an amendment that focused on the direct action and sabotage tactics advocated by the IWW.

One year later, four months after Haywood was recalled, the membership dropped to 80, 000.

" The notable African-American Marxist-Leninist Harry Haywood, who spent much time in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 30s, stated that although he had been somewhat interested in Trotsky ’ s ideas when he was young, he came to see it as " a disruptive force on the fringes of the international revolutionary movement " which eventually developed into " a counter-revolutionary conspiracy against the Party and the Soviet state.

Haywood was one of the first players to turn pro before graduating from college, and the NBA initially refused to let him play in the league.

In a 1911 speech in New York City, IWW organizer Haywood explained his view of the economic situation, and why he believed a general strike was justified,

One of Haywood County's most notable residents was Sleepy John Estes, a blues guitarist songwriter and vocalist.

The county was named in honor of James Fentress ( 1763 – 1843 ), who served as speaker of the state house, chairman of Montgomery County Court, and commissioner to select seats for Haywood, Carroll, Gibson and Weakley counties in West Tennessee.

Crockett County was formed in 1871 from portions of Haywood, Madison, Dyer and Gibson counties.

Finally, at the end of the movie, Ernst Janning personally thanks Judge Haywood for his rulings, saying that it was the right and just decision.

The county was formed in 1828 from the western part of Haywood County.

The two major high schools in the Haywood County Schools System, the Tuscola High School Mountaineers of Waynesville and Pisgah High School Black Bears of Canton participate in one of the fiercest high school rivalries in the state of North Carolina.

Gen. Haywood S. Hansell, one of the architects of AWPD / 1 and AWPD / 42, encountered even more command problems than had Wolfe or LeMay.

Haywood was an advocate of industrial unionism, a labor philosophy that favors organizing all workers in an industry under one union, regardless of the specific trade or skill level ; this was in contrast to the craft unions that were prevalent at the time, such as the AFL.

Never one to shy from violent conflicts, Haywood was frequently the target of prosecutors.

Ray Rapp is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's one hundred eighteenth House district, including constituents in Haywood, Madison and Yancey counties.

Barnard was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Reuben Barnard and Elizabeth Jane Barnard ( née Haywood ), and had one brother.

" On a rare occasion when Vaughn does throw one for a strike, it is hit well over 400 feet by the New York Yankees ' best hitter, Clu Haywood.

Born in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Burgess was the son of Caroline F. Haywood and Thornton W. Burgess Sr., a direct descendant of Thomas Burgess, one of the first Sandwich settlers in 1637.

In 1985, Foreman published the first edition of the book Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, sharing the editing credits with one “ Bill Haywood ”.

Haywood is a significant figure of the 18th century as one of the important founders of the novel in English.

This novel asserts that women have some access to power in the social sphere, one of the recurring themes in Haywood ’ s work.

It was the first periodical written for women by a woman and arguably one of Haywood ’ s most significant contributions to women's writing.

The Wife was first published anonymously ( by Mira, one of Haywood's personas from The Female Spectator ); The Husband: in Answer to The Wife followed later the same year with Haywood ’ s name attached.

Despite lack of factory backing, the car would soon have another successful season there under a host of guest drivers such as Jean-Pierre Jabouille, Jacques Laffite and Hurley Haywood taking a total of three second places and one third.

He was also famous for refusing to extradite Haywood Patterson, one of the Scottsboro Boys a prison escapee who was incarcerated, upon shaky testimony, for the rape of two white women.

As one of the two major high schools in the Haywood County Schools System, there is a huge rivalry between the Tuscola Mountaineers of Waynesville and Pisgah Black Bears of Canton.

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper ( Raleigh, August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964 ) was an American author, educator, speaker and one of the most prominent African American scholars in United States history.

Of the five members, one of them, G. T. Haywood, was elected Presiding Bishop.

Great Haywood is the site of Essex Bridge, one of the largest surviving packhorse bridges in the country which stands over the River Trent near Shugborough Hall.

His gnarled physical appearance, being blind in one eye, combined with his propensity to use hyperbolic language, made Haywood more likely to be associated with conspiracy and murder in the minds of the jurors, the prosecution believed.

Manley is sometimes referred to ( with Aphra Behn and Eliza Haywood ) as one of " The fair triumvirate of wit "— a later attribution.

Haywood, Delarivier Manley and Aphra Behn were known as " The fair triumvirate of wit " and are considered the most prominent writers of amatory fiction.

The residents of the islands, whom Haywood thought to be of Arab and / or Persian descent, built dhows, which the British official considered " excellent sea boats ".