
Wizards of the Coast Deploys the Pinkertons
It Could Happen Here
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The IWW in the Hobos You Saved Free Speech
In 1905, someone blew up the notoriously anti-union governor of Idaho who'd sent troops to kill striking workers a few years ago. Idaho hires a Pinkerton detective to just torture a guy into confessing to the murder and then also claim that like basically every instance of violence in the last five years was committed by the IWW. They get Big Bill Heywood, one of the most famous and like successful organizers of the IWW, and several other IWW leaders kidnapped and taken into Idaho to stand trial for murder which again, they have nothing to do with. If you want to learn more about this whole story, go listen to cool people who did cool stuff. There's two episodes
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