Fierce and long the battle rages,
But we will not fear.
Help will come whene’er it’s needed,
Cheer, my comrades, cheer!
Hellraisers Journal: Sunday February 4, 1917
From the International Socialist Review: Remember Everett!
Walker C. Smith on the young martyr, Hugo Gerlot:
As the Verona cleaved the placid, sunlit waters of the Bay and swung up to the City Dock at Everett, shortly before two o’clock, the men were merrily singing the English Transport Workers’ strike song, “Hold the Fort.”
From a hillside overlooking the scene thousands upon thousands of Everett citizens sent forth cheer after cheer as a hearty welcome to the “invading army.” High up on the flag-pole of the Verona clambered Hugo Gerlot, a youthful free speech enthusiast, to wave a greeting to the throng that lined the shore…
SOURCES
The International Socialist Review, Volume 17
-ed by Algie Martin Simons, Charles H. Kerr
Charles H. Kerr & Company,
July 1916-June 1917
https://books.google.com/books?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ
ISR February 1917
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA455
“Everett, November Fifth” by Charles Ashleigh
(Also source for image.)
https://books.google.com/books/reader?id=SVRIAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&source=gbs_atb&pg=GBS.PA479
The Everett Massacre
A History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry
-by Walker C. Smith
IWW, 1918
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001106557
Martyr Hugo Gerlot waving from flag-pole:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015002672635;view=2up;seq=92
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