If you aren't that familiar with the IWW, it's history, goals, ideas and such, take a minute to read da wiki on them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World
They're still around ya know ...
We often hear many tales of Helen Keller's exploits and accomplishments. But there is another side to her story that most have likely never heard (Because it goes against America's Horatio Alger narrative): She was a member of the Industrial Workers of the World.
From Why I Became an IWW
By any standard measure the suicide of Wesley Everest should be considered unusual.
Everest had only recently returned from the front lines of WWI France, so a suicide isn't all that shocking. However, the circumstances of his death on Veterans Day 1919, should have raised questions with the coroner. That is, if the coroner had bothered to examine the body before declaring it a suicide.
