The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-11-10
(From Wednesdays Seattle Times)

| (fTOm wednesday oedJIle lIueS')
Providing the l. w. WIS, whose at
tempted armed invasion of Everett
last Sunday resulted in seven deaths
and injuries to forty-nine persons, with
every comfort possible, Mayor H. G..
Gill yesterday afternoon personally di-
rected the carrying of 300 warm
blankets and an assortment of tobacco
city Jail.
In this manner Gill replied to criti-
cism in Seattle and Everett for not
having stopped the |. w. w. S from
going to the Snohomish County city.
He supplanted this today by assailing
Sheriff Donald McRae, of Snohomish
County, and the posse of special depu-
| ties who met the invading |. w. WIS
at the boat
'in the final analysis" the mayor
declared, at will be found these cow
ards in Everett who, without right or
justification, shot into the crowd on
the boat were the murderers and not
the |. w. WIS.
Calls Them towards
"The men who met the |. w. WIS at
the boat were a bunch of towards.
They outnumbered the |. w. WIS five
to one, and in spite of this they stood
there on the dock and fired into the
boat, I. w. WIS, innocent passengers
and all.
"McRae and his deputies had no
legal right to tell the l. w. WIS or
anyone else that they could not land
there. When the sheriff put his hand
on the butt of his gun and told them
they could not land, he fired the first
shot, in the eyes of the law, and the
|. w. WIS can claim that they shot in
self-defense."
Mayor Gill asserted the Everett
authorities have no intention of re-
moving the l. w. WIS now in Jail here
to Snohomish County.
"They are afraid to come down here
and get them,' he declared, because
Everett is in a state O. anarchy and
the authorities don't know where
they're at"
Asked what he would have done at
Everett Sunday when the l. w. WIS
appeared at that city, the mayor said
he would have permitted them to land
After they had been allowed to
come ashore" he said, 81 would have
had them watched. Then if they vio-
lated the law I would have had them
thrown in jail There would have been
no trouble that way"
Blankets and Tobacco
After causing the l. w. w. prisoners
to be furnished with blankets and
smoking and chewing tobacco, Gill
also issued orders that the men be
given the regular jail fare of meat
potatoes, bread and coffee From the
time of their arrest Sunday night until
yesterday afternoon they had been
kept on a diet of bread and coffee.
Mayor Gill today also instructed Of
ficials at the city Jail and the police t.
permit the prisoners to see their rela-
tives and attorneys. Since theip2arrest
they had been held incommuricado at
the request of the SnChomish County
authorities, and were allowed to see ~
talk to no one.
The mayors interest in their WEI
fare last night was the subject OF an
I. w. W. street meeting in Seattle sew
eral speakers lauding Gills action in
their behalf.
Secretary Herbert Mailer Of the
Seattle l. w. W. local, also thanked
Gill for his interest in the prisoners
Although the l. w. WIS here last
night asserted in their speeches, with
pride, that the blankets furnished
them yesterday by the mayor were
new, Gill declared today they were
formerly used in the Hotel Liberty and
had been stored for some time in the
city's Charles street barns.
Il would have bought the blankets