Ben H. Williams
| Ben H. Williams | |
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.pdf.jpg) Eleven Blind Leaders by B. H. Williams (Industrial Workers of the World publishing bureau) | |
| Born |
1877 Monson, Maine |
| Occupation | Labor leader |
Ben H. Williams was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World. He was born in 1877 in Monson, Maine, and later moved to Bertrand, Nebraska, with his mother in 1888.[1] Williams attended Tabor College, where he played on the football team, edited a campus magazine, and was president of the Phi Delta Literary Society.[2] Ben H. Williams edited the IWW publication Solidarity from 1909 to 1916.[3]
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- ↑ Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All, A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, University of Illinois Press Abridged, 2000, page 82
- ↑ Warren R. Van Tine, Warren R. Vantine, Making of the Labor Bureaucrat: Union Leadership in the United States, 1870-1920, Univ of Massachusetts Press, 1973, pages 21-22
- ↑ Melvyn Dubofsky, We Shall Be All, A History of the Industrial Workers of the World, University of Illinois Press Abridged, 2000, page 47
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