The Archive · 1928

Former Leader of Lw. W. Dead

Division of Ashes Between Russia and America Moscow, May 18.

The death has occurred here of the "American "Labour leader, William Haywood, formerly sceretary and a leading spirit of the Industriat Workers of the World organization, was ch: ged with anti-war propaganda and sabotage when America entered the Great War but escaped sentence by being smuggled out of the country.

He fled to Russia. the Communist International Con-ress, when one part will be hand-over to the American deleg:

burial in Chicago with the victims of the 1886 Haymarket Riot trial. The remainder will be buried Moscow.—Reuter.

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