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"To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as
•early as possible, is a worthy object of any good government."—
hbranam Lincoln
Address all Communications to Dally Nome Industrial Worker,
Box 210 Nome, Alaska. Phone, Black 184.
Nome, Alaska, .lanuarv 1!», 1!>17.
'.USTICK.”
The Everett Prisoners Defense
Committee sends by mail the follow
ing story and appeal. Nothing that
we might say could add to the
story itself:
“As a final result of the weeding
out process among the men impri
soned because of their activities in
ihe attempt to secure the rights of
free speech in Everett, Wash., there
.ire now 7 4 in jail in Everett charg
ed with first degree murder and 35
in King County jail in Seattle chaig
ed with unlawful assemblage. The
35 men are the passengers on the
Calista which never reached Everett
but turned back half way when
warned by the returning Verona."
“Attorney Fred H. Moore of I-os
Angeles, Cal., fomous in many La
bor cases, is on the job acting for
the men in Seattle and Everett.
Colonel C. F. S. Wood of Portland,
Ore., is also acting in the case in
an advisory capacity.”
“The nn n in jail in Everett are
being constantly subjected to petty
persecution. They have all been
photographed and finger-printed by
the state hoard of prisons although
vet unconvicted! ’1 his was made the
■excuse for not allowing Attorney
.Moore into the jail on Friday, 24th.
lie was not allowed to see his own
-clients! Prosecutor Webb tried to
"et Moore into the jail but Sheriff
.MacKae was implacable.”
The same sheriff also refused to
allow dainties to be sent into the
jail for the boys on Thanksgiving.
Friends of the men and local sym
pathizers had planned to send them
in a Thanksgiving dinner. But,
-nit of sheer malice and gratuitous
brutality. the Sheriff forbade the
food being given to the men. But,
lias but added to the growing senti
ment in Everett against the Sheriff
and the prosecution. The daily
press of Everett is completely under
the sway of the lumber interests,
it. seems. For instance the Everett
Herald of Nov. 20th says that At
torney Moore tasted the prison food
and praised it highly. This article
actually states that Moore said that
•“the prisoners were given as good
food and as much as they could
wish’. Wb.cn Moore saw this “in
terview” in the paper, lie was
astounded. The story was a delibe
rate piece of misrepresentation. Dis
claimers have been sent to the
Everett papers, but whether they
will he printed is questionable.”
“Oscar Carlson, the passenger on
the Verona who was shot in nine
places when the Everett thugs
poured their volleys into the- crowd
'll ch- kc- of the steamer, has brought
action lor damages against t to
comps a'-'. th‘ Evcr.-t t
Dock Co. shcrifl Donald MacRao
■1 s-vi ral olhir leaders of the
Commercial Club mob.”
”llc claims compensation lo the ex
t, nt of $50,000 for the damage
done by tin anti free speech thugs”.
.Seventy-four murder cases. thirty
five unlawful assemblage cases and
I ho case of Edith Fernet te. a free
speech sympathizer, charged with
assault and intent to kill ——such
is the full tale of tin legal battles
looming in the near future”.
“The providing of an adequate
Defense for all these workingmen
will cost a great deal of money.
There is only one source to which
we can apply lor aid: the working
class, it was for the rights of the
working class to express its views
and to organize that five men met
their death so nobly on Bloody Sun
dv, November 5. It is for the same
cause that these men are now in
prison. The Masters will try to rail
road them. We must defend our
own! Shall these men be railroaded
to the penitentiary for life because
they said that Labor should not be
sagged? Workers, it is for you to
say!
Send all contributions to Herbert
Mahler, Sec. Treas., Everett Prison
ers Defense Committee, Box 1S7S,
Seattle, Wash.
Protests and resolutions should
he sent to Governor Lister, Olympia
Wash. Send a demand to your con
ressmen and senators for a Con
gressional investigation into the
battle of Everett, Nov. 5th, 1916."
• * •
In the little city of Everett, one
of the many incidents of the class
struggle have been proceeding.
Everett is essentially a sawmill town
and there too is located a big plant
owned by the Weyerhauser timber
syndicate to which all others in the
industry do honor. So it is the
home of the lumber trust. The
wages paid is small and the hours
ten per day. Reform seems to stop
short in every phase of the lumber
industry. Strikes broke out, an ef
fort was made to organize and the
Lumber Trust made an equally de
termined effort thru the Commercial
Club to bring about, and for ever,
the Open Shop.
The police and county officials
were enlisted upon the side of the
lumber trust. The first move was
made when without there existing
any trouble, disorder or violence of
any kind, an 1. W. W. meeting was
broken up and the man who was
speaking was taken out of town in
an auto and badly, even dangerous
ly, beaten up. He was told never
to return. That was the first law
| less act and performed by those
‘•worn, some of them, to uphold the
law.
Then was inaugurated a reign of
terror. Union men were arrested
on sight. Held incommunicado in
I jail and subjected to daily beatings.
This is Everett, U. S. A.! The
Commercial Club formed a vigilance
; committee and they went to work
i with systematic jailing, slugging
and deporting.
On October 30, thirty men left
Seattle with. the intention of
peacefully trying to hold a meeting
in Everett. They had not a gun
or a (dub among them. At the dock
they were met by a party of gun
men,armed with clubs and guns,
with scarfs around their necks
which they drew up, masking their
faces.
| "The men were driven out to
Beverly park a wild patch of wood
land on the outskirts of the town.
Here they were received by another
! gang of Commercinal Club helots in
full sapping trim”. We are quoting
from the daily record of the events,
which is not an ex parte statement.
“The men were there released one
by one and forced to run the gaunt
let between the long ranks of llie
gang.--! rs all of them bloodthirsty
and most of them drunk with boot
leg v. hi. key”. All were first rob
bed of their money, all were sub
jected to blows that knocked some
of them unconscious so that the
fiends infuriated with liquor dragged
their victims across barbed wire
I and serrated iron cattle guards by
| the railroad track, which were next
day black with clotted blood, and
waving with torn clothing. After
| the little party struggled back to
Seattle a number of them were
treated in the city hospital for
troubles ranging from serious inter
| mil injuries to broken shoulders,
: scalp wounds and lacerations. All
| this is properly authenticated by the
more decent minded citizens of
! Everett who next day visited the
j scene and marked the bloody evid
| once by eye witnesses, photographs
and hospital records. Some mi
nisters spoke from the pulpits
i against this outrage and such papers
! as were not subsidized by the lum
ber trust freely voiced their wrath
|and were threatended for their
| pains. The story is known in the
sequel and the events of bloody Sun
I day are familiar to all. But few
know and less realize that the ter
rible condition that existed then,
and now exists, comes because men
had the guts to fight for the con
stitutional rights despite the drunk
en efforts of lawless brutes mask
ing in the guise of legal deputies.
Well said Hiram Gill, Seattle’s
Mayor “If I were one of the party
of I. W. W.’s who was almost beat
en to death by 300 citizens of Eve
rett without being able to defend
myself, I probably would have armed
myself if I intended to visit Everett
again.”
Gill’s interview, published in the
Seattle Times is on the whole a
very able summary by a man that
likes to believe that in this land
there is yet some semblance of
freedom, not wholly to be de
stroyed by a bunch of the plunder
bund.
“In the final analysis it will be
found that these cowards in Eve
rett who met without right or
justification shot into the crowd in
the boat were the murderers and
not he I. W. W.’s. The men who
met the I. W. W.'s were a bunch of
cowards. They outnumbered the
I. W. W.’s five to one. And in spite
of this they fired into boat. I. W.
W’s, innocent passengers and all.
MacRae and his deputies had no
legal right to tell those I. W. W’s
or anyone else they could not land
there. When the sheriff put his
hand on the butt of his gun and told
them that they couldn’t land therej
he fired the first shot, in the eyes
of the law, and the I. W. W’s can
claim that they shot in self defense.
If I were one of the party of I.
W. W.'s who was almost beaten
to death by 300 citizens of Everett
without being able to defend mv
self”—the Mayor was referring to
the occasion when the men were first
deported and had to run the gaunt
let in Beverly Park—“I probably
would have armed myself if I ever
intended to visit Everett again".
It would be profitable for every
American citizen to read an ar
tiile in the December issue of
Pearsons Magazine. It is entitled
“i ree Speech” in the United States
,-.i,d is wrtten bv Cour’enav Leman
It is highly authoritative and has
an educational value beyond words
It reveals the insidious manner in
which great interests, capitalist, re
ligious or otherwise, have been in
terfering with free speech, free press
and free assembly. It considers in
detail the infringements upon theso
constitutional rights of the citizens
through the' police, through the
courts, through the post office. And
it will explain the legal theory on
which most of these arrests, inhi
bitions and assaults are made is
upon such a legal metaphysical re
version as a “constructive” poss
ibility. Thus we have “constructive
contempt” of courts, “Constructive
presence (at the scene of lawless
ness) “constructive” assaults, “con
structive’ disorders, and so forth,
i making it possible to destroy every
; free action through a legal interprc
i tation as anything being “construc
tively" possible. Thus criticism of a
I judge in a newspaper is held “con
l structive” contempt of court, b<
cause the article was constructive!'
construed as being written in the
constructive presence of the court.
And so these men are held in Eve
rett because they are each.and every
one of them “constructively” guiltv
of killing both their fellow-workers
and those who fired at them.
No. 030s.
NOTICE OK APPLICATION* KOI!
PATENT.
In the United States Land Office at
Nome, Alaska, December 10, 1910.
Notice is hereby given, that Isaac
L. Osgood, Estate (Ileirs, Cora and
Elmer Osgood and Mrs. Mamie Os
good) By W. P. Bell and Seattle
National Bank, Trustees and Floyd
W.- Osgood, By Fred. R. Cowden
their Attorney in Fact, whose Post
Office address is Nome, Alaska, and
on behalf of Co-Owner Eliis E.
Powell, has made application before
the United States Land Office,, at
Nome, Alaska, for a United States
Patent for Discovery Claim and No.
1 Above Discovery on Lake Creek
in the ^ape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska, being Mineral Survey
No. 1175, said claims being more
particularly described in the field
notes and plat of the official survey
thereof now on file in said Land
Office at Nome, Alaska, as follows,
to-wit:
DISCOVERY CLAIM.
Beginning at Cor. 1 identical with
S. W. Loc. Cor. with Cor. 4 of No.
2 below on Saturday Creek, Sur.
605, a fir post 4 ins. sq. 2 ft. above
ground in earth mond scribed 1-747,
4-G95, 1-1175, D. U. S. L. M. No.
11 bears S. 14 deg. 05 min. B.
4110.0 ft. thence N. 20 deg. 16 min.
W. Var. 19 deg. 00 min. E. G65.00
ft. to Cor. No. 2; thence N. 9 deg.
57 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
209.40 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
69 deg. 45 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 3 deg. 2S min. E. Var,
19 deg. 15 min. E. 317.40 ft. to
Cor. No. 5; thence S. 6 4 deg. 43
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
3S6.80 ft. to Cor. No. 6; thence S.
45 deg. 53 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 25
min. E. 273.80 ft.; thence S. 13
deg. 25 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 05 min.
E. 400.80 ft. to place of begining,
containing 5.908 acres.
NO. ONE ABOVE DISCOVERY.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 identical
with loc. cor. on line 1-6 of Sur. No.
747 No. 1 Above Discovery on
Wonder Creek and with Cor. No. 2
Discovery claim this survey, previ
ously described, U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 14 deg. 57 min. E. 4771.60
ft.; thence N. 20 deg. 16 min. W.
Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. 960.50 ft.,
to Cor. No. 2; thence S. 48 deg. 26
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E.
225.20 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence N.
31 deg. 20 min. E. Var. 19 deg. 00
min. E. 269.40 ft. to Cor. No. 4;
thence S. 36 deg. 42 min. E Var. 3 9
deg. 10 min. E. 647.00 ft. to Cor No.
5; thence S. 31 deg. 00 min. E.
Var. 19 deg. 30 min. E. 1240.00 ft.
to Cor. No. G; thence S. G9 deg. 4 5
min. W. Var. 19 deg. 15 min. E. .
670.00 ft. to Cor. No. 7; thence S.
9 deg. 57 min. W. Var. 19 deg. 10
min. E. 209.40 ft. to place of be
ginning, containing 16.656 acres.
, Said claims are situated on un
surveyed ground on Lake Creek
about 4.5 miles north of the Town
of Nome, in the Cape Nome Itecord
| ing District, Alaska.
I U. S. Location Monument No. 11
| to which said claims are tied, is a i
fir post 6 ins. sq. 5 1't. above ground !
in stone mound 3 ft. high 6 ft. base
scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, is situat
ed about 2.75 miles Northeasterly
from mouth of Snake River ana
about 70 ft. east of the Bessie road.
Is in Latitude G4 deg. 32 min. North
Longitude 165 deg. 22 min. West.
Original locations recorded in Vol.
99 Page 445 and 16 Page 116 and
Amended locations recorded in Vol.
165 Page 225 and Vol. 199 Page
85, Records of Cape Nome Record
ing District, Alaska.
The adjoining claims are: On the
North No. 2 Above on Lake Creek,
Survey No. 698 and Gold Bug Claim
Survey No. 4 34; on the East un
surveyed; on the South No. 1
Below on Saturday Creek Sur. No.
1117 and No. 2 Below on Saturday
Creek, Sur. No. 695; on the West,
No. 1 Above on Wonder Creek Sur.
No. 747. There are no conflicting
claims.
G. A. ADAMS.
Register.
Date of first publ., Dec. 20, 1916.
! Date of last publ., »eb. 21. 1917.
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