The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-18
THE MAYOR BRAIS


mayor, sour visaged eN-Sherlff and
the acrimonious president OF the Ev
erett Commercial club, has been sent
TO every newspaper in the states,
presenting their SHE Of the case which
resulted in the killing of five workers
on November ..
The statement is in answer to a
communication sent out in behalf of
the workers by Drank Il. Wash, for
mer chairman of the Industrial Rela
tons Commission, in which these of
hcials and the Everett Commercial
club are accused of instigating the
battle which resulted in seven deaths
ana 90 wounded,
The whole story sent out by this
gang Of blunderers is far from the
truth. Everett citizens have slowly
learned the truth about the outrages
perpeuated on the workers during the
past eight months and therefore can
not be beguiled, but the outsider,
whose prejudice can be taken advan-
tage of, can easily be led to believe
that what these noble gentlemen of
Everett say is the truth.
The first real trouble started when
70 gunner strike breakers attacked
~ shIngie weavers VINO We're picket
ms the cargo mill, badly beating up
the plcAeters while Everett police
Slood by and grinned. The news of
this affair reached Seattle and union
hep the picketers, with the result
thaJ the strike breakers We're worst
e4 IN q fight in which the police took
part by helping the strikebreakers.
Shortly after this an l. W. w. soap
boxer took advantage of the trouble
TO start street meeting and was ar
rested. From that time on trouble
came thick and fast. 800 members of
the CONNER cial club were sworn in as
deputies and citizens were pushed off
The streets, beaten up and jailed. Any
bouy bearing the earmarks of a wage
worker We're not allowed to stop off
In the city. Hundreds were sent on
their way and merchants Of the city
lost many thousands of dollars of
business. And many Of them are be-
waII4ng the fact right now. Every
Out-enoe to the city was guarded but
some OF the /. W. WIS managed to
get in, but their stay was short lived,
Tor deputies hustled them out Of town
with the aid of loaded sticks. Dozens
were thrown into jail, among them
several women, and unceremoniously
driven out of town during the night
Je-oIe being tried.
Eight ines are said to have been
sta Tea by l. W. WIS, yet only one
man has been charged and he is an
L. e4eCt citizen and not a member of
Jne i. w. w. The charge has not yet
been proven, because the prosecution
Is hunting all over the United States
for man who is dirty enough to
swear to the mans guilt. Another
point in this fire business which shows
up the dirty lies of this gang is the
fact that the fire chief of the city of
Eve. EFT states, in his annual report
fo- 1916, that there were less fires
last year than during 1915 and that
only FOUR WE'RE OF INCENDI-
Any ORIGIN.
The report that is being circulated
-Ao"s concIusively that the Everett
7~ns ale having hard job to make
Their story stick, and when one con-
s-ue.s that the men now on trial are
only being charged with killing one
deputy and that that deputy's wife
mas stated that her husband would be
aAye tooay if it had not been for Nc
l.ae firing the FIRST SHOT, their
- -.-l- attempt to uphold their end of
...y -.o4y becomes all the more con-
elusive that Everett has been run by
d bunch Of gangsters that should have
been in sing Sing years ago.