Haywood delivered the keynote speech at a 1905 meeting of more than 200 socialists and trade unionists that launched the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), nicknamed the Wobblies.

From 1907 to 1916, the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.), an aggressive workers ... In Fresno, California, the Wobblies sang in jail. When they refused to stop, jailors turned fire ...