Hellraisers Journal: Reporting on IWW Activities in Everett, Minneapolis and the Mesabi Iron Range

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You ought to be out raising hell.
This is the fighting age.
Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Hellraisers Journal, Friday November 3, 1916
From Washington to the Mesabi – Fellow Workers Organize and Fight

From The Vancouver World (B. C.) of October 31, 1916:

EVERETT EXPELS I. W. W.’s.

IWW Label, 2nd Conv, Sept 17-Oct 3, 1906

EVERETT, Wn. [Washington]. Oct 31-When word was received last night that 45 men, said to be members of the Industrial Workers of the World, were coming by boat from Seattle last night, 200 citizens gathered under the leadership of deputy sheriffs and stood guard at the wharf. When the steamer docked and the men cam ashore the waiting citizens loaded them into automobiles and drove them through town to a point beyond the south city limits, where they were liberated and warned to return to Seattle.

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