Tag: Everett Class War Prisoners of 1916

Hellraisers Journal: From Everett Defense: Date Set for Trial; Gurley Flynn Speaks before State Federations of Labor

Janet RayeElizabeth Gurley Flynn
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Quote, Charles Ashleigh, EDNL9, Jan 27, 1917

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Hellraisers Journal, Monday January 29, 1917
From Seattle, Washington: Everett Defense News Letter No. 9

Everett Massacre, Def News Letter 9, Jan 27, 1917

Everett, Wash, Jan. 27th.

The date of the first trial has been set! The first man to be tried is Fellow Worker Thomas H. Tracy and his case comes up on March 5th. This was decided yesterday in Everett when the 74 boys pleaded “Not Guilty!” The presiding judge was J. T. Ronald, of King County, who has been appointed by Governor Lister to hear the case, as prejudice was charged by our attorneys against the Two Superior Court judges of Snohomish county.

APPLICATION MADE FOR CHANGE OF VENUE.

Our attorneys gave notice of an application for a change of venue. They will now prepare affidavits proving that there is too much prejudice in Snohomish county to warrant the boys a fair and impartial trial. The affidavits will be submitted on Feb. 2nd and the motion for change of venus will be decided upon by judge on Feb. 9th.

OUR MEN IN GOOD SPIRITS.

The 74 boys made a fine showing in the court-room on Friday. They marched in heavily guarded by a swarm of deputies, but were entirely unabashed. They answered to their names and rose, one after the other, giving, in ringing tones, their plea-it sounded more like a statement than a plea-of “Not Guilty!” There was much favorable comment in the court on the clear-cut and self-possessed appearance of the prisoners.

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Hellraisers Journal: 74 Class-War Prisoners Arraigned by Prosecution of Snohomish County, Washington

Janet RayeHellraisers Journal
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I stood by a city prison,
In the twilight’s deepening gloom,
Where men and women languished
In a loathsome, living tomb.
They were singing! And their voices
Seemed to weave a wreath of light,
As the words came clear with meaning:
“Workers of the World, unite!”
-Laura Payne Emerson

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Hellraisers Journal, Thursday December 28, 1916
Everett, Washington – Free Speech Prisoners Arraigned

Everett Massacre, Def News Letter 4, Dec 23, 1916

Saturday, December 23, 1916

FREE SPEECH PRISONERS ARRAIGNED.

The arraignment of the 74 men charged with murder by the Prosecution of Snohomish County, Wash., took place on Wednesday, Dec. 20th. All morning was taken up in the reading of the information. These men were passengers on the “Verona” on Sunday, Nov. 5th,-Bloody Sunday, as it is more often termed,-and were part of a number of workingmen belonging to the Industrial Workers of the World, the Longshoremen, the Seamen and other organizations, who were going from Seattle to Everett in order to hold an afternoon street meeting to maintain their constitutional rights of Free Speech.

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Hellraisers Journal: IWWs Held in Seattle, Charged with Murder, Transferred to Jail in Everett

Janet RayeHellraisers Journal
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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

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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
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Men Accused of Firing on Everett
Citizen Deputies Removed
Without Protest.
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COUNSEL FOR DEFENSE ARRIVES
IN SEATTLE.
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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.
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Special to The Post-Intelligencer.

Jail at Everett, WCS

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.

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