Hellraisers Journal: Seattle Union Record Reports on Funeral for Everett Martyrs and Mass Meeting at Dreamland

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Don’t Mourn, Organize!
-Joe Hill

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday November 28, 1916
Seattle, Washington – Labor Mourns Martyrs and Gathers in Protest

The Seattle Union Record, voice of the Central Labor Council, in its November 25th edition, carried an account of the grand funeral which was held on November 18th to honor Hugo Gerlot, John Looney and Felix Baran, three of the Everett Free Speech Martyrs, who were murdered at Everett Harbor on November 5, 1916. The same edition reported on the mass public meeting, held at Dreamland on November 19th, attended by thousands, and held to protest the murderous suppression of Free Speech on the day now known as Everett’s Bloody Sunday.

Free Speech Heroes Get Grand I. W. W. Send-Off:

EVERETT-KILLED WORKERS BURIED
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Simple but Impressive Ceremonies at Graves
of Victims of Battle of November 5
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Everett Massacre, Funeral Gerlot, Looney, Baran, Nov 18, 1916, WCS

Thousands of Seattle citizens viewed the impressive funeral cortege of three of the Everett free speech martyrs on Saturday afternoon.

Leading the funeral procession was an automobile loaded with floral tributes the most elaborate of which was a massive set piece of white carnations with the motto, “Workers of the World Unite,” in red. Another portrayed the spirit of the great crowd in one pregnant word “Solidarity.”

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Hellraisers Journal: From the Northwest Worker of Everett, Washington: “More of Our Dead in Fight For Freedom”

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Don’t Mourn, Organize!
-Joe Hill

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday November 26, 1916
Socialists and Unionists of Everett Mourn Their Dead

Everett Massacre, Hdline OUR DEAD, NW Worker, Nov 23, 1916

Why? When?

Everett Massacre, Why When, NW Worker, Nov 23, 1916

Note: Disturbing photographs below the fold.

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Hellraisers Journal: Mass Meeting Held at Seattle’s Dreamland Park; Remarkable Solidarity Between Rival Unionists

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Hold the fort for we are coming.
Union men, be strong!
Side by side we battle onward;
Victory will come.

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Hellraisers Journal, Wednesday November 22, 1916
Seattle, Washington – Solidarity! A. F. of L. Stands by I. W. W.

This past Sunday there was a demonstration of remarkable solidarity when the Central Labor Council of Seattle (A. F. of L.) joined together with the Industrial Workers of the World to demand justice for those killed in the murderous assault upon the Verona as it attempted to land in Everett on November 5th. The ship, on that day, was carrying members of the I. W. W. whose only crime was that they were about to attend a Free Speech Meeting planned for that afternoon. The Wobblies soon learned that the sentence for practicing Free Speech in the city of Everett, Washington, is Death.

The Seattle Star of November 20th reported that this was “the largest mass meeting ever held in Dreamland pavilion:”

Everett Massacre Dreamland Mtg 11/19, Stt Str, Nov 20, 1916, p1a
Everett Massacre Dreamland Mtg 11/19, Stt Str, Nov 20, 1916, p1b

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Hellraisers Journal: Funerals Held in Seattle for Young Everett Martyrs; Mourners Sing “The Red Flag”

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With heads uncovered, swear we all,
To bear it onward till we fall;
Come dungeons dark, or gallows grim,
This song shall be our parting hymn!

-Jim Connell

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Hellraisers Journal, Tuesday November 21, 1916
Seattle, Washington – Funerals Held for Three of the Everett Martyrs

On Saturday, November 18th a public funeral was held for three of the five martyrs of the Everett Massacre of November 5th, known as Bloody Sunday. Those buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, in a service attended by thousands of Seattle citizens, were Felix Baran, Hugo Gerlot, and John Looney. Their comrade, Abraham Rabinowitz, died singing “The Red Flag,” and that same song of courage was sung by the mourners as they threw flowers upon the coffins of the three young men, whose names are now added to roll call of Labor Martyrs.

WE NEVER FORGET

Charles Ashleigh Speaks:

Everett Massacre, Funeral Baran Gerlot Looney, Nov 18, 1916, UW

Fellow Workers Honored:

Everett Massacre, Funeral Felix Baran, Nov 18, 1916, UW

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Hellraisers Journal: Fellow Workers Murdered at Everett by Sheriff McRae and Posse of Gunthugs

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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, Monday November 6, 1916
Everett, Washington – Free Speech Fighters Massacred

BLOODY SUNDAY IN EVERETT, WASHINGTON

WE NEVER FORGET

Everett Massacre, IWW Martyrs at Morgue, WCS

Members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who, after the brutal events at Beverly Park on October 30th, being determined to establish the right to free speech and union organization in the lumber town of Everett, Washington, were shot down in cold blood by Sheriff McRae and his posse of drunken deputies yesterday, the day now known as Bloody Sunday.

The men had arrived on the steamer Verona from Seattle in order to attend a free speech rally scheduled for that afternoon when they were denied the right to disembark at the Everett dock. Sheriff McRae, by most reports, fired the first shot as if to signal his deputized gunthugs to open fire on the union men.

The account below is from The New York Times which characterizes the union men as “invaders.” We expect to get the working class version of the story in the coming days from the labor and socialist press of Everett and Seattle.

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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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Hellraisers Journal: Striking Shingleweavers of Everett, Washington, Beaten on Picket Line

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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 August 25, 1916
Everett, Washington – County Officials Defend Gunthugs

From The Northwest Worker of August 24, 1916:

The NorthWest Worker, Everett WA, Aug 24, 1916

KELLY AND MCRAE DEFEND STRIKE-
BREAKERS AND GUNMEN IN EVERETT
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City and County Police Force Used to Help Beat
Up Striking Shingleweavers and Give
Gunmen Plenty of Freedom
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Once again King Kelly [County Commissioner] has demonstrated the fact to the citizens of Everett that he is the High Mogul in this neck of the woods. The “King” is spending more than a thousand dollars a month of Everett taxpayers’ money in order to keep “specials” to protect the interests of the mill owners. This fact was demonstrated when some 75 strike breakers attacked the picket line of 19 union shingle weavers at the Cargo mill last Saturday morning [August 19th] and the police stood by and laughed and seemed tickled to death to see the pickets get a licking.
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