The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-11

| class. 1t means that the responsibility,
for any murder accompanying {
| strike, whether done by gunner OF
strikers, can be placed upon the heads
Of union leaders and agitators. L
means that wherever labor dares tt
raise its head the law will be used as a
deadly instrument of repression"
An Eloquent Appeal.
Perhaps 200 people heard the appeal
| There were a hundred lumberjacks
and harvest hands-migratory, casual
laborers. attracted by the label II. w.
| W.. d little group of college people.
| and q sparse scattering of less easily
| classified Citizens" At best it was a
refractory audience, but the stirring
speech bound it and sWayed it and
commanded an enthusiastic. outburst
from it--an outburst composed, how
ever. chiefly of handclapping and part
ly Of S42.50. But the collection was
not the measure of Mrs. Flynn's sue
cess The success was in the extraor-
binary achievement of putting across"
story of bitter injustice without be-
coming fearful for one or philippe for
the other portion of the audience.
Mrs. Flynn spoke without soapbox
invective or social service pathos. She
told her story simply markcd her con
clusions clearly and then appealed to
senses Of justice, with the old watch
word Of the Knights of Labor-"An
injury to one is the concern of all"
She has told the Hibbiny and Everett
versions of her story every night since
diences as apathetic as last nights.
and the very WEAKNESS of her manner
and the monotony of her theme ave
lfciikc color to the recital.
The stories of Bayonne and the
Mesaba range and Everett are already
known, in Missoula at least. Mrs
Flynn sketched them all as instances
of general condition of oppression
among those classes of labor outside
the cratt-unon pale.
Upon the Everett case. the one with
which she is now most concerned.
Mrs. Flynn dwclt longest. Her version
of the affair is, briefly put. as follows:
\ strike Of single wcavcrs was in
progress in Everett. Lumber manu-
| facturers there had begun their part of
general prcmeditatcd struggle for the
| open shop, a struggle in which all
| Pacific coast employers are united
one day deputy shcriffs, accompanied
| by depuiized strike breakers and mill,
| guards. disarmed pickets around al
| Everett mill and beat them up.
| Meanwhile |. w. w. speakers wer,
| holding meetings in Everett The,
talked about the incident, for though
they were not directly involved in tn,
strike they were not in Everett It,
discuss China or the differential cal
culuS. They were ordered not t.
speak on the main street; others wer
allowed to appear there. They resist
ed. Officers arrested them They ,wer
turned over to ''visilantes'' organize
10y the Everett Commercial club. take
out of town, viCiouSly beaten an
turned loose. The climax came Whe
| organizer ROWcn OF the |. w. w. wa
beaten with a whip until his back wa
literally cut to pieces and q group {
free speech fighters was forced t
run the gauntlet of zoo "vigilantes
armed with clubs.
Seattle |. W. VS. openly planned
mass meeting in Everett. They adve,
tised their coming and embarked upo
Il little passenger steamer The shi
sailed in between two piers both high
er than the deck and both covered wit
armed men. After a parlcy betwee
= the sheriff and the people on the boz
Il Nolley was fired by the men on tn
piers. In the shooting then and in
? mcdiately after two men on shore an
: seven on shiphoard We're killed.
An autopsy established the fact tn;
one of the two men killed on sho,
was shot by an ally on the opposit
, pier Seventy four l. w. VS. wei
arrested for the murder of the 9th,
victim. No one was arrested for Il
murder of the seven men on the shi
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