Biography
Clyde Hough was an IWW activist associated with open defiance of World War I conscription. In 1917, he and other local Wobblies publicly refused to register for the draft and surrendered to authorities, turning their anti-conscription stance into a public confrontation with wartime repression and resulting in a jail sentence. He was later caught in the broader federal dragnet against the IWW, swept into the Chicago conspiracy prosecution and given a multi-year federal sentence—illustrating how antiwar dissent and radical labor organizing were criminalized in the period.
