The Everett massacre - A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry

Walker C. Smith

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Everett massacre, by Walker C. SmithThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: The Everett massacreA history of the class struggle in the lumber industryAuthor: Walker C. SmithRelease Date: March 28, 2010 [EBook #31810]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EVERETT MASSACRE ***Produced by Bryan Ness, Martin Pettit and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)Transcriber's Note:A Table of Contents and List of Illustrations have been added.The Everett MassacreBy Walker C. Smith A History of the Class Strugglein the Lumber IndustryDecoration I. W. W. Publishing BureauChicago, Ill. This book is dedicated to those loyal soldiers of the great class warwho were murdered on the steamer Verona at Everett, Washington, inthe struggle for free speech and free assembly and the right toorganize: FELIX BARAN, HUGO GERLOT, GUSTAV JOHNSON, JOHN LOONEY, ABRAHAM RABINOWITZ,and those unknown martyrs whose bodies were swept out tounmarked ocean graves on Sunday, November Fifth, 1916.I.W.W. logo PRINTED BY THEMEMBERS OF THEGENERAL RECRUITINGUNION I. W. W ...

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Everett
massacre, by Walker C. Smith
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cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,
give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg
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Title: The Everett massacre
A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry
Author: Walker C. Smith
Release Date: March 28, 2010 [EBook #31810]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
THE EVERETT MASSACRE ***
Produced by Bryan Ness, Martin Pettit and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
(This
file was produced from images generously madefile was produced from images generously made
available
by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Transcriber's Note:
A Table of Contents and List of Illustrations have been
added.
The Everett Massacre
By Walker C. Smith

A History of the Class Struggle
in the Lumber Industry
Decoration

I. W. W. Publishing Bureau
Chicago, Ill.
This book is dedicated to those loyal soldiers of the
great class war who were murdered on the steamer
Verona at Everett, Washington, in the struggle for free
speech and free assembly and the right to organize:
FELIX BARAN,
HUGO GERLOT,
GUSTAV JOHNSON,
JOHN LOONEY,
ABRAHAM RABINOWITZ,
and those unknown martyrs whose bodies were swept
out to unmarked ocean graves on Sunday, November
Fifth, 1916.
I.W.W. logo

PRINTED BY THE
MEMBERS OF THE
GENERAL RECRUITING
UNION I. W. W.
CONTENTS
Pag
Chapter
e
PREFACE 5
EVERETT, NOVEMBER FIFTH 7
I. THE LUMBER KINGDOM 9
II. CLASS WAR SKIRMISHES 27
III. A REIGN OF TERROR 49IV. BLOODY SUNDAY 84
V. BEHIND PRISON BARS 115
VI. THE PROSECUTION 142
VII. THE DEFENSE 177
VIII
PLEADINGS AND THE VERDICT 230
.
IX. SOLIDARITY SCORES A SUCCESS 289
THE BANKRUPTCY OF "LAW AND ORDE
X. 297
R"
ILLUSTRATIONS
Released Free Speech prisoners who visited the gr
aves of their murdered
8
Fellow Workers at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Ma
y 12, 1917.
The Flying Machine as now used in Western loggin
21
g.
One of the thousands who donate their fingers to t
he Lumber
Trust. The Trust compensated all with poverty an 33
d
some with bullets on November 5, 1916.
Joe (Red) Doran Capt. Jack Mitten The Launch
48
Wanderer.
Organizer James Rowan;
Showing his back lacerated by Lumber Trust thu 55
gs.
Beverly Park 70
A close up view of Beverly Park showing cattle gua
71
rds.The Ketchum Home near Beverly Park 83
10
Mayor Gill says I. W. W. did not start riot
2
11
Jail at Everett
6
11
Funeral of Gerlot, Looney and Baran
9
An all-I. W. W. crew raising a spar tree 160 ft. long
, 22½ 13
inches at top and 54½ inches at butt, at Index, W 2
ash.
13
Another view of the same operation.
3
13
Judge J. T. Ronald
9
Pilot house of the "Verona" riddled with rifle bullets 16
at Everett 2
16
Arrival of the "Verona" at Seattle
9
Cutting off top of tree to fit block for flying machine 18
. 9
VERONA AT EVERETT DOCK,
20
under same tide condition as at time of Massacre
0
.
21
View of Beverly Park, showing County Road.
0
21
THOMAS H. TRACY
6
Everett from the water. To the left G. N. Depot 22
from where by-standers viewed battle. 3
Victims at Morgue.
2323
John Looney Hugo Gerlot, Felix Baran Abe R
5
abinowitz
24
JOHN LOONEY
3
FELIX BARAN
Dark lines on body caused by internal hemorrhag
25
e; Portland
2
doctor said life might have been saved by operati
on.
26
HUGO GERLOT
0
26
Dead body of Abraham Rabinowitz.
4
Part of 78 prisoners of County Jail Everett Wn. 27
Released May 8, 1917. 2
27
Singing to the Prisoners.
7
Charles Ashleigh speaking at the funeral, of Loone 28
y, Baran and Gerlot. 2
Gus Johnson Felix Baran John Looney 29
Hugo Gerlot Abraham Rabinowitz 0
May First at Graveside of Gerlot, Baran and Loone 29
y. 4
PREFACE
In ten minutes of seething, roaring hell at the Everett
dock on the afternoon of Sunday, November 5, 1916,
there was more of the age-old superstition regarding
the identity of interests between capital and labor torn
from the minds of the working people of the PacificNorthwest than could have been cleared away by a
thousand lecturers in a year. It is with regret that we
view the untimely passing of the seven or more Fellow
Workers who were foully murdered on that fateful day,
but if the working class of the world can view beyond
their mangled forms the hideous brutality that was the
cause of their deaths, they will not have died in vain.
This book is published with the hope that the tragedy
at Everett may serve to set before the working class
so clear a view of capitalism in all its ruthless greed
that another such affair will be impossible.
C. E. PAYNE.

With grateful acknowledgments to C. E. Payne for
valuable
assistance in preparing the subject matter, to Harry
Feinberg in consultation, to Marie B. Smith
in revising manuscript, and to J. J.
Kneisle for photographs.

EVERETT, NOVEMBER FIFTH
By Charles Ashleigh
["* * * and then the Fellow Worker died, singing 'Hold
the Fort' * * *"—From the report of a witness.]Song on his lips, he came;
Song on his lips, he went;—
This be the token we bear of him,—
Soldier of Discontent!
Out of the dark they came; out of the night
Of poverty and injury and woe,—
With flaming hope, their vision thrilled to light,—
Song on their lips, and every heart aglow;
They came, that none should trample Labor's right
To speak, and voice her centuries of pain.
Bare hands against the master's armored might!—
A dream to match the tools of sordid gain!
And then the decks went red; and the grey sea
Was written crimsonly with ebbing life.
The barricade spewed shots and mockery
And curses, and the drunken lust of strife.
Yet, the mad chorus from that devil's host,—
Yea, all the tumult of that butcher throng,—
Compound of bullets, booze and coward boast,—
Could not out-shriek one dying worker's song!
Song on his lips, he came;
Song on his lips, he went;—
This be the token we bear of him,—
Soldier of Discontent!
Released Free Speech prisoners who visited the
graves of their murdered Fellow Workers at Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, May 12, 1917.
Released Free Speech prisoners who visited the
graves of their murdered Fellow
Workers at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, May 12,
1917.The Everett Massacre
CHAPTER I.
THE LUMBER KINGDOM
Perhaps the real history of the rise of the lumber
industry in the Pacific Northwest will never be written.
It will not be set down in these pages. A fragment—
vividly illustrative of the whole, yet only a fragment—is
all that is reproduced herein. But if that true history be
written, it will tell no tales of "self-made men" who
toiled in the woods and mills amid poverty and
privation and finally rose to fame and affluence by
their own unaided effort. No Abraham Lincoln will be
there to brighten its tarnished pages. The story is a
more sordid one and it has to do with the theft of
public lands; with the bribery and corruption of public
officials; with the destruction and "sabotage," if the
term may be so misused, of the property of
competitors; with base treachery and double-dealing
among associated employers; and with extortion and
coercion of the actual workers in the lumber industry
by any and every means from the "robbersary"
company stores to the commission of deliberate
murder.
No sooner had the larger battles among the lumber
barons ended in the birth of the lumber trust than
there arose a still greater contest for control of the
industry. Lumberjack engaged lumber baron in a
struggle for industrial supremacy; on the part of the