1.75" with metal back and fixed bar pin. Button features portraits of 'Big Bill' Haywood general secretary of the Western Federation of Miners, Charles Moyer president of the WFM and George Pettibone a labor activist. It reads “Their Only Crime/Loyalty To The Working Class." In 1906 all three men were arrested and charged with the murder of former Idaho Gov. Frank Steunberg after notorious Pinkerton detective James McParland coerced assassin Albert Horsley into implicating them. The arrests and trials produced headlines across the nation. Reactions varied with famous labor leader Mother Jones raising money for the men and President Roosevelt calling them "undesirable citizens". Clarence Darrow defended Haywood who was found not guilty in July of 1907. After the trial Eugene Debs called Haywood "the Lincoln of Labor". In 1908 Pettibone was acquitted and charges against Moyer were dropped. Gorgeous glossy surface with only faint surface wear seen in reflected light. NM displaying Mint. Easily among the best labor buttons we’ve offered in our five decades of business.