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NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR:
I have avery rare copy of IWW editor, poet, and song-writer ["SolidarityFor=
ever"] Ralph H. Chaplin's legendary and very substantial 1920labor defense =
book -- about 85 pages with photographs and end papers -- onbehalf of the C=
entralia, Washington Wobblies. World War I anti-radical andanti-labor boss-=
manufactured fear and hysteria passed into the infamous RedScare epoch. For=
months in 1919, Wobblies at and around Centralia had beenthreatened and at=
tacked by hoodlums. On November 11, 1919, the IWWs --mostly lumber workers =
and including several World War I vets -- defended theirUnion hall against =
a cold and calculated armed Armistice Day raid by the LumberTrust-manipulat=
ed Centralia American Legion. In the shooting, four Legionmembers were kill=
ed. A number of Wobblies were seized and, that night,Wesley Everest, a vete=
ran and a prominent IWW leader, was taken from his jailcell by a mob, castr=
ated, and lynched from a bridge trestle. A reign ofanti-IWW and general ant=
i-labor terror pervaded the entire region. EightWobblies were convicted of =
murder and sentenced to Walla Wallapenitentiary. One died in prison and, in=
the 1930s, the remainder wereeventually released at various points. They w=
ere ably and loyallydefended by George H. Vanderveer of Seattle, and by Elm=
er Smith of Centralia --himself initially a target. Smith, originally from =
Larimore, NorthDakota, worked on behalf of all of the defendants until all =
were freed -- savethe one victim who died in prison. The cover illustration=
, done byChaplin, depicts the lynched and mutilated Wesley Everest.
Thisparticular copy includes a full page, mimeographed letter dated June 30=
, 1920,written and ink-signed by Elisabeth Gilman of 513 Park Avenue, Balti=
more,and, addressed to "Dear Fellow Member of the Church League,"attaches a=
copy of the Chaplin work. There were obviously a number ofrecipients of th=
e book and letter. Her plea is a vigorously courageousand moving statement =
on behalf of full justice and freedom for the Centraliadefendants.
This bookranks in significance with The Everett Massacre: A History of the =
ClassStruggle in the Lumber Industry, an important [300 plus pages with pho=
tos] 1917cloth-bound book by IWW writer/activist Walker C. Smith and carryi=
ng a fierypreface by Wobbly editor and organizer C.E. Payne. [In the early =
1920s, WalkerC. Smith also published a pamphlet on behalf of the Centralia =
victims.]
The EverettMassacre book discusses the Lumber Industry, the IWW in the Paci=
fic Northwest,the Everett Massacre and the death of several IWW activists -=
- and thesubsequent arrest and imprisonment of a number of others charged w=
ithmurder, all of this culminating in the Seattle murder trial and acquitta=
lof the lead defendant, Wobbly activist Tom Tracy. The Wobblies, who hadpre=
viously been badly beaten and forced from Everett, Washington by guns andvi=
olence, had attempted to enter the "closed" coastal town north ofSeattle vi=
a boat -- on Puget Sound -- on November 5 1916 where they were met byorgani=
zed gunfire from a throng of so-called "lawmen" andLumber-Trust vigilantes.=
The Everett defendants were represented byGeorge F. Vanderveer and, on May=
5, 1917, Tom Tracy was acquitted. Theothers so charged were then freed for=
thwith.=20
TheEverett Massacre was published in 1917 and was one of the first IWW book=
s Iever secured and read as a young person. [My mother was born at Everett =
in1906.] I have my copy of the book to this day. C.E. Payne, who had been a=
founder of the IWW in 1905 and who was almost 90 in early 1955, was a very =
keymentor and close friend of mine when I was barely 21.
SeeWobbly Art and much more IWW material at my www.hunterbear.org
Amongother pieces, this includes aphoto ofthe Centralia book, its cover dep=
icting Wesley Everest hanging from theCentralia bridge. The specific link:
http://hunterbear.org/wobbly_art.htm
I have avery large collection of radical labor material.Some of this is on =
our website and much iscarefully filed here at my Idaho home.(HunterBear)
HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Francis Abenaki / =
St. Regis Mohawk=20
Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20
and Ohkwari'=20
Check out our massive social justice website:=20
www.hunterbear.org
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO=20
Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course:
http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm
My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20
word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20
confrontational social justice organizing life to=20
date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20
methodology: http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm
The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20
http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm
(Photos)=20
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<div><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"2"> <b>NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR:</b></f=
ont></div><div><b><font size=3D"2"><br></font></b></div><div><font size=3D"=
2"><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></font></div><font size=3D"2"><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><=
span style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">I=
have a
very rare copy of IWW editor, poet, and song-writer ["Solidarity
Forever"] Ralph H. Chaplin's legendary and very substantial 1920
labor defense book -- about 85 pages with photographs and end papers -- on
behalf of the Centralia, Washington Wobblies. World War I anti-radical and
anti-labor boss-manufactured fear and hysteria passed into the infamous Red
Scare epoch. For months in 1919, Wobblies at and around Centralia had been
threatened and attacked by hoodlums. On November 11, 1919, the IWWs -=
-
mostly lumber workers and including several World War I vets -- defended th=
eir
Union hall against a cold and calculated armed Armistice Day raid by the Lu=
mber
Trust-manipulated Centralia American Legion. In the shooting, four Le=
gion
members were killed. A number of Wobblies were seized and, that night=
,
Wesley Everest, a veteran and a prominent IWW leader, was taken from his ja=
il
cell by a mob, castrated, and lynched from a bridge trestle. A reign =
of
anti-IWW and general anti-labor terror pervaded the entire region. Ei=
ght
Wobblies were convicted of murder and sentenced to Walla Walla
penitentiary. One died in prison and, in the 1930s, the remainder wer=
e
eventually released at various points. They were ably and loyally
defended by George H. Vanderveer of Seattle, and by Elmer Smith of Centrali=
a --
himself initially a target. Smith, originally from Larimore, North
Dakota, worked on behalf of all of the defendants until all were freed -- s=
ave
the one victim who died in prison. The cover illustration, done by
Chaplin, depicts the lynched and mutilated Wesley Everest.</font></span></b=
></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">This
particular copy includes a full page, mimeographed letter dated June 30, 19=
20,
written and ink-signed by Elisabeth Gilman of 513 Park Avenue, Baltimore,
and, addressed to "Dear Fellow Member of the Church League,"
attaches a copy of the Chaplin work. There were obviously a number of
recipients of the book and letter. Her plea is a vigorously courageou=
s
and moving statement on behalf of full justice and freedom for the Centrali=
a
defendants.</font></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=
=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">This book
ranks in significance with The Everett Massacre: A History of the Class
Struggle in the Lumber Industry, an important [300 plus pages with photos] =
1917
cloth-bound book by IWW writer/activist Walker C. Smith and carrying a fier=
y
preface by Wobbly editor and organizer C.E. Payne. [In the early 1920s, Wal=
ker
C. Smith also published a pamphlet on behalf of the Centralia victims.]</fo=
nt></span></b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">The Everett
Massacre book discusses the Lumber Industry, the IWW in the Pacific Northwe=
st,
the Everett Massacre and the death of several IWW activists -- and the
subsequent arrest and imprisonment of a number of others charged with
murder, all of this culminating in the Seattle murder trial and acqui=
ttal
of the lead defendant, Wobbly activist Tom Tracy. The Wobblies, who h=
ad
previously been badly beaten and forced from Everett, Washington by guns an=
d
violence, had attempted to enter the "closed" coastal town north of
Seattle via boat -- on Puget Sound -- on November 5 1916 where they were me=
t by
organized gunfire from a throng of so-called "lawmen" and
Lumber-Trust vigilantes. The Everett defendants were represented by
George F. Vanderveer and, on May 5, 1917, Tom Tracy was acquitted. T=
he
others so charged were then freed forthwith. </font></span></b></p><div><fo=
nt face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"><b><s=
pan style=3D"line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;">The
Everett Massacre was published in 1917 and was one of the first IWW books I
ever secured and read as a young person. [My mother was born at Everett in
1906.] I have my copy of the book to this day. C.E. Payne, who had be=
en a
founder of the IWW in 1905 and who was almost 90 in early 1955, was a very =
key
mentor and close friend of mine when I was barely 21.</span></b><font size=
=3D"3"> </font></font></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">See
Wobbly Art and much more IWW material at my </font><a href=3D"http://w=
ww.hunterbear.org/" mce_href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org/"><font color=3D"=
#0563c1" face=3D"Calibri">www.hunterbear.org</font></a></span></b></p><div>=
<font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri"><span style=3D"mso-spacer=
un: yes;"> </span>Among
other pieces, this includes a<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;"> </sp=
an>photo of
the Centralia book, its cover depicting Wesley Everest hanging from the
Centralia bridge. The specific link:</font></span></b></p><div><font face=
=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;"><font face=3D=
"Calibri"> </font></span><a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/wobbly_art.=
htm" mce_href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/wobbly_art.htm"><font color=3D"#0563=
c1" face=3D"Calibri">http://hunterbear.org/wobbly_art.htm</font></a></span>=
</b></p><div><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></div><p style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 8pt;"><b><span style=3D"line-heigh=
t: 107%; font-size: 12pt;"><font face=3D"Calibri">I have a
very large collection of radical labor material.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun=
: yes;"> </span>Some of this is on our website and much is
carefully filed here at my Idaho home.<span style=3D"mso-spacerun: yes;">&n=
bsp; </span>(Hunter
Bear)</font></span></b></p></font><div><font size=3D"2"><font face=3D"Times=
New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"3">
</font></font>HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq / St. Fran=
cis Abenaki / St. Regis Mohawk=20
<br>
Protected by Na=C2=B4shdo=C2=B4i=C2=B4ba=C2=B4i=C2=B4=20
<br>
and Ohkwari'=20
<br>
<br>
Check out our massive social justice website:=20
<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org" mce_href=3D"http://www.hunterbear.org=
">www.hunterbear.org</a> =20
<br>
Member, National Writers Union AFL-CIO=20
<br>
<br>
Core dimensions of my Community Organizing course:
<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.labornet.org/news/0000/hbear.htm">http://www.labornet=
.org/news/0000/hbear.htm</a></div><div>
<br>
<br>
My expanded/updated "Organizer's Book,"=20
<br>
JACKSON MISSISSIPPI -- with a new 10,000=20
<br>
word introduction by me. Covers much of my=20
<br>
confrontational social justice organizing life to=20
<br>
date. Contains much how-to grassroots organizing=20
<br>
methodology: <a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/jackson.htm">http://hunterbea=
r.org/jackson.htm</a></div><div>
<br>
<br>
The Stormy Adoption of an Indian Child [My Father]:=20
<br>
<a href=3D"http://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm">http=
://hunterbear.org/James%20and%20Salter%20and%20Dad.htm</a> =20
<br>
(Photos)=20
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