The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-08-03

nave TO endure 1urCner Sucn COrCureS
as were visited on the previous free
speech fighters. A Pinkerton de-
tective, masquerading behind an L.
w. W. card, on the Verona, was so
outraged at being shot at by his fell
low lumber trust henchmen ashore
that he pulled his gun and emptied
all six chambers at the sheriff's
men.
But most, perhaps all, of the ex-
ecution among the deputies on the
dock was done by rifle bullets from
their own force, placed on the boat
and the other dock, and by other
deputies on the Verona's dock, who,
blind With terror, rushed into the
warehouse at one end, and fired in
Discriminatory through the thin
sides. When the frame-up started
the Snohomish county authorities
tried to pick up body that was not
too clearly killed by one of their
own rifles, and had a hard time.
The indictments first read "for the
murder of C. o. Curtis" and C. 0.
Curtis body had been buried in a
solid block of concrete.
Curtis Wouldn't Do.
The determined pressure of the
defense forced the Snohomish coro-
nor to break open this rocky grave,
and Curtis was found to have died
| by one of his own mems bullets
So he went back to oblivion, and
the Indictment was changed to ''the
murder of jefferson Beard" Cur
tbs and Beard had been killed, six
teen deputies were wounded. Al
least seventeen workers were killed
! and twenty-eight seriously wounded
in that ten minutes battle.
But no one was ever tried for the
killing of the workers, and seventy
six workers were charged with muir.
dering Beard.
Eleven of them, those the author.
tiles thought to be leaders, were Sc
lected for trial.
History was to repeat itself II
the Gastonia mill strike, for no one
is charged with shooting down 10.
seph Harrison, strike organizer
but ninety-five were arrested for the
shooting of Chief of Police Aderholt
And because this number is un
wieldy to try, sixteen of the leaders
are selected in Gastonia to face
charges of murder.
Workers on Jury.
In the Everett case such a storm
of criticism of the authorities wen
up, such resolnte organization tool
place, that the defense was able tt
get change of venue to Seattle t.
get separate trials for the work
ers, So that only one, Thomas H
Tracy, teamster, was ever tried
and jury was secured which hac
a few workers on it.
The trial started March 9, 1917
before Judge ]. T. Ronald, of King
County, especially appointed by thu
governor. The prosecution, nomi
nally conducted by Lloyd Black, dis
trict attorney of Snohomish, wa!
really under the command of tn,
lumber mill attorneys, H. d. Coole.
and A. L. Veitch.
The attorneys for the defens,
were Fred Moore and George +
Vandervere.
Like GastOnia.
There are her many resemblance!
to the Gastonia case now in pro
cess, and, indeed to all frame-ul
cases. The special judge appointed
by the governor is a feature of tn,
Gastonia trial. There too, the de
Tense appeals for change Of venue
There, too, the employers most pre-
JUDGED against the defendants pu
their attorneys in charge of tn,
prosecution.
The Everett case prosecution pre-
sented the usual melange of per
jured direct testimony, and far
fetched circumstantial evidence
They read everything the defend
ants or their organization had writ
ten for publication. They talke,
about the Chicago Haymarket vic
tins, and tried to connect Trac,
AaFsty. 5si5..