The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-18
Bloody November
BY JACK SODERBERG.

esTHERE will come time when our silence will
be more powerful than the voices you are
strangling today"
These words we're spoken by Spies as the rope
was being placed around his neck in Chicago
November 18th, 43 years ago. November H.
1887, marks one of the most calous of frame
ups in history pregnant with murder and blood
of the working class. On this date, the four
Chicago martyrs were legally murdered by the
bosses.
November Bloody November On Novem-
Der 10, 1915 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the final
chapter was written with the legal murder of
the I. w. w. songbird, Joe Hill On this date
the bullets of the firing squad shifted out the
life and stilled the voice of this rebel song
writer. Don't mourn, but organize" was the
last words of Joe Hill as he died as he had
lived, a rebel to, the last, breathing defiance to
the end
November s. 1916, stands out as one of the
bloodiest days on the blood stained trail of the
revolutionary workers. On this day, no less than
II workers we're brutality shot and killed as they
stood unarned packed like sardines, on the
deck of the S. s. Verona in the port of Everett,
Washington Some were deliberately shot and
killed as they were swimming for their lives
in the icy water of Pouget Sound that Sunday
Morning, November 5th. Others were killed out
right on deck of the steamer by the gunner
and sheriffs of the Lumber Trust. John Looney
died in a pool of his own blood with no less
than II bullets entering his shivering flesh
he lay on the deck
year later November 49, Frank Little, ma
tional organizer of the l. w. W., already crippled
with a bullet in his knee cap, was dragged out
of his bed o'clock in the morning and tied
with rope behind an automobile, and dragged
through the streets until nothing remained but
a pile of broken bones and bundle of bloody
rags.
November II, 1919, one of the defenders of
the wobbly hall in Centrala Washington, was
beaten half dead and his bleeding body thrown
on the cement floor of the cell in full view OF
his comrades in the cell opposite. Here he lay,
the life blood slowly ebbng from his body until
that night when he was dragged out by mob
led by some of the most prominent business men
of Centralia placed in an automobile, and after
being fiendishly mutilated and unsexed with a
razor he was finally hanged to railroad trestle
and his body riddled with bullets. His last
words to his comrades in Jail before being
dragged out were, tell the boys did my best"
So died hero of the working class. So died
Wesley that we may live.
In November, 1926, comes the raids and ar
rests of our comrades in Woodlawn, Pa, with
the subsequent conviction and sentence. In No
vember, 1917, comes the bloody massacre at the
Colunlbine mine in Colorado where workers
lives were snuffed out by the machine guns Of
the bosses hirelings and more than score
| wounded
| Truly November stands out as one of the
| bloodiest in the history of the working class in
| the United States. Wherever capitalism has
| gone ahead, it has left behind it trail OF
blood a trail of murder, and November stands
| out as the bloodiest of them all.