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Ship ’em Out

by | Jun 1, 2007 | Features & Gunfights

The Bisbee deportation continues Western labor troubles.
It was a situation that just asked for trouble. In late June 1917, several locals of the International Workers of the World (“Wobblies”)—led by Big Bill Haywood—went on strike against mine operations in various Western states. Among their demands: safer working conditions and hard wage levels, instead of the sliding scale based on the price of copper and other


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