The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industrySmith, Walker C.
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The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry
Smith, Walker C.
Industrial Workers of the World; Lumbering -- Washington (State); Lumbermen -- Washington (State)
"And when you got to the judge's office you found you were in Mr.
McLaren's and Mr. Veitch's and Mr. Black's office in the Smith
Building?"
"Yes, sir."
Gibbons testified as to certain alleged conversations in an apartment
house frequented by members of the I. W. W., stating that a party of
members laid plans to go to Everett and to take with them red pepper,
olive oil and bandages. Harston Peters, one of the defendants, had a gun
that wouldn't shoot and so went unarmed, according to this witness.
Gibbons also stated that Mrs. Frenette took part in the conversation in
this apartment house on the morning of the tragedy, whereupon Attorney
Moore asked him:
"On directing your attention to it, don't you remember that you didn't
see Mrs. Frenette at all in Seattle, anywhere, at any time subsequent to
Saturday night; that she went to Everett on Saturday night?"
"Well, I am quite sure I saw her Sunday, but maybe I am mistaken."
The judge upheld the defense attorneys in their numerous objections to
the leading questions propounded by prosecutor Black during the
examination of this witness.
Clapp was recalled to the stand and testified further that Scott Rainey,
head of the U. S. Naval Militia at Everett, had ordered Ensign McLean to
take rifles to the dock, and that the witness and McLean had loaded the
guns, placed them in an auto and taken them to the dock, where they were
distributed to the deputies just as the Verona started to steam away.
Ignorance as to the meaning of simple labor terms that are in the
every-day vocabulary of the "blanketstiff" was shown by Clapp in his
answers to these queries:
"What is direct action?"
"Using force instead of lawful means."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, either physical force, or conspiracy."
"You understand conspiracy to be some kind of force, do you?"
"It may be force."
When asked where he had obtained information about sabotage, this
witness said that he had looked up the word in Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary, a work in which the term is strangely absent.
Clapp was the first witness to admit the armed character of the deputy
body and also to state that deputies with guns were stationed on all of
Everett's docks.
After excusing this witness, Cooley brought in copies of two city
ordinances covering street speaking in Everett. One of them which
allowed the holding of meetings at the corner of Hewitt and Wetmore
Avenues was admitted without question, but the other which purported to
have been passed on September 19, 1916, was objected to on the ground
that it had not been passed, was never put upon passage and never moved
for passage in the Everett City Council.
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