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'''William Dudley "Big Bill" Haywood''' (1869 - 1928) was a founder and leader of the [[Industrial Workers of the World|IWW]] and was involved in several worker uprisings in the [[United States of America|USA]].

== Life ==

=== Life in Moscow ===
In the [[USSR]], Haywood became a labor advisor to [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin's]] government, and served in that position until 1923. Haywood also participated in the founding of the [[Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony]].  Various visitors to Haywood's small Moscow apartment in later years recalled that he felt lonely and depressed, and expressed a desire to return to the United States. In 1926 he took a Russian wife, though the two had to communicate in sign language, as neither spoke the other's language.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood#Life_in_Soviet_Russia</ref>

=== Death ===
On May 18, 1928, Haywood died in a Moscow hospital from a stroke brought on by alcoholism and diabetes. Half of his ashes were buried in the Kremlin wall; an urn containing the other half of his ashes was sent to Chicago and buried near the [[Haymarket Massacre|Haymarket Martyrs' Monument]].<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Haywood#Death</ref>

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