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Hellraisers Journal – Saturday December 30, 1911
Aberdeen, Washington – The Constitution as Upheld for Fellow Workers
From the Spokane Industrial Worker of December 28, 1911:
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WAKE UP GOVERNOR HAY.
—————Tacoma, Wash, Dec. 17, 1911.
Honorable Marion E. Hay,
Governor of the State of Washington,
Olympia, Wash.Sir:-
We, the undersigned, do hereby respectfully call your attention to the lawlessness which, as we are informed, now exists and for some time past existed in Aberdeen, Chehalis county, in this state.
We herewith enclose affidavits to show that workingmen who have been charged with no crime whatever have been compelled to leave said city by an irresponsible mob of brutal men armed with guns and cubs-a proceeding for which we are advised, there is no authority in law and which, we submit, is to a marked degree, against the peace and dignity of our state.
Our laws, as we are informed, provide that persons charged with a crime may be arrested and after being found guilty in the manner prescribed by law, may be punished. Such punishments, we are informed, may be fine, imprisonment, the infliction of death penalty upon the offender, and in certain cases the performance of an operation to prevent procreation.
There is no law providing that persons, guilty or innocent, desirable or undesirable may be run out or town.
Trusting that you may, in the exercise of your authority as chief executive of our state, see your way clear to suppress all lawlessness and assuring you of our ability and willingness to furnish much or evidence of the character herewith enclosed, we beg to remain, respectfully yours,
ED GILBERT.
A. J. AMOLSCH.
MANS BECKER.[Emphasis added.]
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