Frank H. Little was an American labor leader and organizer with the IWW who, on this day in 1917, was sprung from jail and lynched in Butte, Montana. 10,000 workers lined the route of his funeral procession.

In the months before Little's death, he had been helping organize copper workers in a strike against the Anaconda Copper Company and speaking out against World War I, calling it a "rich man's war and a poor man's fight".

In the early hours of August 1st, six masked men broke into the boardinghouse where Little was staying and beat, kidnapped, and lynched him by tying him to the back of a speeding car. No one was apprehended for his murder, although IWW members alleged members of the local police were involved, noting that Butte's chief of detectives, Ed Morrissey, took a three week leave of absence after Little's death.

An estimated 10,000 workers lined the route of Frank Little's funeral procession, which was followed by 3,500 more people. His funeral is still the largest ever in Butte history.