Talk:William Z. Foster

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[edit] Much ado about "Z"

My sources say that he never called himself "Zebulon."

Well, could you name your sources? I didn't add the name, but there are some internet sources that say that. Everyking 08:30, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I sound like a Magic Eight Ball. Barrett's book says that Foster never used it and denied the stories that others circulated that he had adopted Zebulon to sound as if he were descended from old New England stock, rather than the son of Irish immigrants. Thanks, by the way, for correcting all my typos; I plead fatigue, even though it is no defense. --Italo Svevo 04:03, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Free Speech Fight

The Free Speech Fight to which you refer actual took place in Spokane, Washington. November of 1909 to be exact. While the IWW carried out many such fights this would be the one that Foster was involved in. As a matter of fact he was covering the the event for the Workingmen's Paper. It was after being arrested alongside of the IWW members that he baecame a member. This is the same event which is so infamous for the arrest of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn(actually one of many arrests). Zealot420