David C. Coates

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David C. Coates was a radical, a lieutenant governor of Colorado, and a friend to Big Bill Haywood. David Coates was present at the founding convention of the Industrial Workers of the World.[1] Coates was offered the presidency of that organization, but declined to accept it.[2] The IWW later abolished the office of the presidency.

In his autobiography, Bill Haywood credited Coates with suggesting a slogan for the IWW: an injury to one is an injury to all.[3] The slogan has since been used by a number of labor organizations.

After leaving office, Coates was a member of the Socialist Party of America. He left the party over its pacifist policies and headed the short-lived National Party during World War I.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pp. 78.
  2. ^ Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, pp. 84.
  3. ^ William Dudley Haywood,The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood,1929,pp. 186.


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