Hellraisers Journal: Washington State Supreme Court Rules Against Centralia IWWs Who Defended Their Union Hall

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Quote Wesley Everest, Died for my class. Chaplin Part 15—————

Hellraisers Journal – Monday April 18, 1921
Olympia, Washington – State Supreme Court Rules Against Centralia Defendants

From Oregon’s La Grande Evening Observer of April 14, 1921:

I. W. W. MUST SERVE TERM
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OLYMPIA, Wash., Apr. 14.-The state supreme court today upheld the conviction of seven of the alleged I. W. W. members convicted of second degree murder in connection with the Centralia armistice day killings. The court refused to grant a new trial. the men will be transferred from the Montesano county jail to the state prison to begin serving their sentence of from twenty-five to forty years.

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Centralia Trial, IWW Convicted, Spk Chc p1, Feb 7, 1920 Names WA Sp Crt p 407

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