William Dudley Haywood citations

William Dudley Haywood , plus connu sous le nom de Big Bill Haywood, fut une figure centrale du mouvement ouvrier américain. Il fut un dirigeant de la Western Federation of Miners, un membre fondateur et un leader des Industrial Workers of the World , et un membre du comité exécutif du parti socialiste américain avant d'être un des fondateurs du Parti communiste auquel il appartiendra jusqu'à sa mort. Pendant les deux premières décennies du XXe, il participa à plusieurs des luttes ouvrières les plus importantes, dans le Colorado, le Massachusetts et le New-Jersey. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. février 1869 – 18. mai 1928
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William Dudley Haywood: Citations en anglais

“The bandage will remain on the eyes of Justice as long as the Capitalist has the cut, shuffle, and deal.”

Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.

“The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood.”

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and The Struggle for the American Dream, Bruce Watson. Viking-Penguin, 2005; pg. 93.

“Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day! (From the Haymarket era eight hour campaign)”

(Haywood variation) Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - and eight dollars a day!
Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 147.

“The mine owners "did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!"”

Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171.

“I've never read Marx's Capital, but I've got the marks of capital all over my body.”

Humour and Social Protest, By Marjolein t'Hart & Dennis Bos, 2007, page 39.

“If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.”

Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146.

“Tonight I am going to speak on the class struggle and I am going to make it so plain that even a lawyer can understand it.”

Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and The Struggle for the American Dream, Bruce Watson. Viking-Penguin, 2005; pg. 95.