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**William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood** (1869 - 1928) was a founder and
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leader of the [IWW](Industrial_Workers_of_the_World "wikilink") and was
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involved in several worker uprisings in the
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[USA](United_States_of_America "wikilink").
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## Life
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### Life in Moscow
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In the [USSR](USSR "wikilink"), Haywood became a labor advisor to
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[Lenin's](Vladimir_Lenin "wikilink") government, and served in that
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position until 1923. Haywood also participated in the founding of the
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[Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial
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Colony](Kuzbass_Autonomous_Industrial_Colony "wikilink"). Various
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visitors to Haywood's small Moscow apartment in later years recalled
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that he felt lonely and depressed, and expressed a desire to return to
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the United States. In 1926 he took a Russian wife, though the two had to
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communicate in sign language, as neither spoke the other's
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language.\[1\]
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### Death
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On May 18, 1928, Haywood died in a Moscow hospital from a stroke brought
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on by alcoholism and diabetes. Half of his ashes were buried in the
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Kremlin wall; an urn containing the other half of his ashes was sent to
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Chicago and buried near the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument.\[2\]
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## References
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<references />
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1. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood#Life_in_Soviet_Russia>
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2. [Wikipedia](Wikipedia "wikilink") -
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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood#Death> |