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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!

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!

Bill Haywood
Gold, Injustice, Mills
"The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Bill Haywood (p. 171), 1929.

If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

Bill Haywood
Hands, Class, Pockets

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

Bill Haywood
Money, Work, Men
"Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p.146), 1983.

Eight hours of work, eight hours of play, eight hours of sleep - eight hours a day!

Bill Haywood
Sleep, Eight, Play
"Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson (p. 147), 1983.

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

Bill Haywood
Eye, Cutting, Long
"Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood". Book by Peter Carlson, p. 146, 1983.

A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.

Bill Haywood
Struggle, Revolution, Strikes

To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible.

Bill Haywood
Fables, Christianity, Nonsense
Big Bill Haywood (1929). “Bill Haywood's book”

The mine owners do not find the gold.

Bill Haywood
Gold, Owners, Mines

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