They came, that none should trample Labor’s right
To speak, and voice her centuries of pain.
Bare hands against the master’s armored might!—
A dream to match the tolls of sordid gain!
-Charles Ashleigh
Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday November 15, 1916
Seattle, Washington – I. W. W.s Transferred to Everett
From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer of November 11, 1916:
41 I.W.W. TAKEN TO EVERETT
ON MURDER CHARGE
—–Men Accused of Firing on Everett
Citizen Deputies Removed
Without Protest.
—–
COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE ARRIVES
IN SEATTLE.
—–
Claim Will Be Made That Everett Men
Killed or Wounded Were Struck
by Bullets Fired by Members
of Their Own Posse and
That No Shots Came
From the Verona.
—–Special to The Post-Intelligencer.
EVERETT, Nov. 10-The forty I. W. W.’s arrested when the steamer Verona docked at Seattle Sunday following the battle on the Everett dock, who were charged yesterday with first-degree murder, were brought back to Everett under a heavy guard tonight, taken off the car and taken to the county jail without as many as six people on hand to watch it. It was feared in Everett that there might be a crowd here at the interurban station when the special car came in and extra precautions were taken to keep the time of the arrival of the car secret. So well was it kept secret that the only persons on hand when the car, with every blind down, reached the station at 7:40 that no one but a deputy sheriff and two city plain clothes men were present.
Handcuffed in Pairs.
The I. W. W. were marched out two by two, each pair handcuffed and each pair in charge of a deputy, and taken over to the county jail, where they were once more searched and put in the big receiving coil. No trouble, no confusion or talking marked either their arrival or their transfer to the county jail.
The men were brought up under the personal supervision of Chief Beckingham, of Seattle. Assisting him were Lieut. Hedges, Sergeant Kieff and Patrolmen Fuqua and Benjamin. The I. W. W. were guarded by twenty Everett deputies.
Expected Trouble.
Chief Beckingham was surprised that the men were brought here and taken to jail without the slightest sign of trouble. He expected, he said, a large crowd here, as the news of the cars leaving Seattle was circulated down there. The car was delayed over two hours, said Beckingham, and before it finally left a large crowd gathered. But there was no disturbance and not even any remark made. He said because of that delay he thought the news would be telephoned up here in time for a crowd to gather.
Close Watch Kept on Water Front.
Chief Beckingham said the Seattle police were watching the water front and the I. W. W. headquarters and that at the first sign of anything that looked like trouble the police would stop it. He said it would be impossible for a large band of them to again come up here en masse as they did Sunday.
[Photograph added.]
Mayor Gill could not prevent transfer:
ATTORNEY WOOD, OF PORTLAND, ARRIVES.
Attorney C. E. S. Wood, of Portland, counsel for the I. W. W., accompanied by Dr. Marie D. Equi, also of Portland, called upon Mayor H. C. Gill shortly after their arrival in Seattle Friday afternoon. Attorney Wood at that time would give out no statement as to his intended action in the case saying he desired first to confer with the local counsel in the case, whom he had not as yet encountered. After the conference Mayor Gill said Mr. Wood wanted to know what action the mayor would take to prevent the transportation of the I. W. W. to Everett, and what the mayor’s attitude would be with regard to holding the men in Seattle. Mayor Gill said Mr. Wood expressed a desire that they be confined in the King county jail pending arrangements.
“I told him that so far as I could help it I would not release the men until I was assured that they would not be taken up to Everett and shot down,” said Mayor Gill.
Shortly after 5 o’clock Secretary Herbert Mahler, of the I. W. W., appeared at Mayor Gill’s office and announced that the I. W. W. were being transported to Everett. James Crehan, the mayor’s private secretary, explained that the mayor was without jurisdiction, and, the mayor being busy, Mahler departed.
[Photograph added.]
SOURCE
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
(Seattle, Washington)
-Nov 11, 1916, page 1 (097)
-Nov 11, 1916, page 2 (096)
http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/pnwlabor/page/1
IMAGES
Jail at Everett, WCS
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?num=116&u=1&seq=241&view=image&size=75&id=mdp.39015002672635
C. E. S. Wood, Attorney, ab 1910, wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Erskine_Scott_Wood
See also:
Tag: Everett Massacre
https://weneverforget.org/tag/everett-massacre/
The Everett Massacre
-by Walker C. Smith
IWW, 1918
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31810/31810-h/31810-h.htm
Charles Erskine Scott Wood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Erskine_Scott_Wood
Marie Equi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Equi
Herbert Mahler
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Mahler,+Herbert
Timberbeasts by Jack Miller (also known as Jack Leonard), page 108
https://libcom.org/files/SolidarityForeverOCR.pdf
Rebel Voices
-ed by Joyce L. Kornbluh
PM Press, Sep 1, 2011
(Search with: Jack Leonard, choose page 120.)
https://books.google.com/books?id=n2ATBwAAQBAJ