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Hay⋅wood

[hey-wood]
–noun
1. William Dudley (“Big Bill”), 1869–1928, U.S. labor leader: a founder of the Industrial Workers of the World; in the Soviet Union after 1921.
2. a male given name.
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Hay·wood   (hā'wŏŏd')   
American labor leader. A socialist who helped found the Industrial Workers of the World (1905), he was ejected from the Socialist Party for his militant views (1912) and was convicted of sedition during World War I. He fled to the Soviet Union in 1921.
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