Bill HAYWOOD gets a Factory

HAYWOOD

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/8/2006 at 13:37:22

"Fairfield Ledger-Journal", Mar. 15, 1922, Pg. 1, Col. 4

Bill HAYWOOD is Given Factory
American Labor Leader granted concession for Iron Works... by United Press

MOSCOW. March 15, 1922 ~~ Big Bill HAYWOOD heads a group of American I.W.W. to whom Premier Lenin has granted a concession to operate the Nadejdinsky Iron Works in the Ural Mountain region, part of the coal mines in the Kosnetz basin and auxiliary factories.

HAYWOOD disappeared from the United States last year which under $65,000 bail after he and about 90 other I.W.W. had been convicted of espionage and conspiracy against the government in the war.

It is stipulated that 4800 fully qualified American workers with technical personnel shall be brought into Russia to operate the properties and that each of them must purchase $100 worth of tools or instruments for his own equipment, and sign a contract promising to observe all the rules of the Soviet Labor Code.

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.