The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-01-19

Seattle, Wash.
 Protests and resolutions should l be sent to Governor Lister, Olympia Wash. Send a demand to your con- ressmen and senators for a Con- gressional investigation into the battle of Everett, Nov. 9th, 1916"
 In the little city of Everett, one of the many incidents of the class struggle have been proceeding. Everett is essentially a sawmill town and there too is located a big plant owned by the Weyerhauser timber industry do honor. So it is the home of the lumber trust. The wages paid is small and the hours ten per day. Reform seems to stop short in every phase of the lumber industry. Strikes broke out, an eff fort was made to organize and the Lumber Trust made an equally de termined effort thru the Commercial Club to bring about, and for ever the Open Shop,
 The police and county officials were enlisted upon the side of the ! lumber trust. The first move was made when without there existing any trouble, disorder or violence of any kind. an l. w. w. meeting was broken up and the man who was speaking was taken out of town in an auto and badly, even dangerous ly, beaten up. He was told never 10 return That was the first law less act and performed by those sworn, some of them, to uphold the law.
 Then was inaugurated reign of terror. Union men were arrested on sight. Held incommunicado ill jail and subjected to daily beatings. This is Everett, |. s. A.. The Commercial Club formed a vigilance committee and they went to work with systematic jailing, slugging and deporting.
 On October 30, thirty men left Seattle with the intention of peacefully trying to hold a meeting in Everett They had not a gun or a club among them. At the dock they were met by a party of gun men armed with clubs and guns, with scarfs around their necks which they drew up, masking their faces.
 "The men were driven out to Beverly park wild patch of wood land on the outskirts of the town. Here they were received by another gang of Commercinal Club helots in full sapping trim. We are quoting from the daily record of the events, which is not an eX parte statement. "The men were there released one , by one and forced to run the gaunt- ! let between the long ranks of the gaugsters all of them bloodthirsty and most of them drunk with boot ! leg whiskey". All were first rob. , bed of their money, all were sub- 1 jected to blows that knocked some of them unconscious so that the fiends iufurated with liquor dragged their victims across barbed wire and scrrated iron cattle guards by the railroad track, which were next day black with clotted blood, and waving with torn clothing. After the little party struggled back to Seattle a number of them were treated in the city hospital for troubles ranging from serious inter- nal injuries to broken shoulders, scalp wounds and decorations. All this is properly authenticated by the more decent minded citizens of Everett who next day visited the scene and marked the bloody evid- ence by eye witnesses, photographs and hospital records. Some mi nisters spoke from the pulpits against this outrage and such papers as were not subsidized by the lum- Der trust freely voiced their wrath and were threatended for their pains. The story is known in the sequel and the events of bloody Sun day are familiar to all. But few know and less realize that the ter rible condition that existed then, and now exists, comes because men had the guts to fight for the con