0024. William D. Haywood. Case File 188032. Section 6. 213 pages., 1920-1938

People: William D. Haywood; Arturo Giovannitti; J. Edgar Hoover; Homer S. Cummings; Joseph B. Fleming; Victor L. Berger; Forrest Edwards; Vincent St. John; Raymond S. Fanning; A. Mitchell Palmer; William L. Frierson; Francis Ralston Welsh; James H. Rowan; Louis F. Post; Frank K. Nebeker; David S. Cook. Subjects: Department of Justice Chicago, Illinois, prosecution of Industrial Workers of the World leadership and Industrial Workers of the World members; requests for access to Department of Justice files on case against William D. Haywood, et al.; Department of Justice request for United States Department of State verification of death of William D. Haywood in Russia; application for writ of certiorari before the United States Supreme Court; United States Circuit Court of Appeals hearings; surveillance of mail of prisoners in Leavenworth, Kansas, penitentiary; General Defense Committee of the Industrial Workers of the World; Department of Justice policies regarding parole and bail for Industrial Workers of the World defendants; Industrial Workers of the World fund raising, legal defense, and organization of agricultural workers in South Dakota; citizen protests against Industrial Workers of the World activities and against Department of Justice prosecution of Industrial Workers of the World members; Industrial Workers of the World publications; plans for disposition of Industrial Workers of the World documents and property seized by the Department of Justice.