tuation. He said that they permit candidates for
office to violate the city ordinances by speaking on the streets and yet
run the I. W. W.'s out of town if they endeavor to mount a soap box.]

The prisoners in Seattle were held incommunicado for several days. They
were fed upon the poorest grade of prison fare, and were made to sleep
on the winter-chilled cement floors without blankets. But Mayor Hiram
Gill, realizing that public sentiment was with the imprisoned men,
ordered that they be placed upon a proper diet, be given blankets and
be allowed to see relatives and friends. On November 8th in the Seattle
Times there appeared a statement by Gill that played a very important
part in riveting the attention of the people upon the real criminals in
the case. As the Times is a notoriously conservative and labor-hating
sheet, being largely responsible for the raid on the I. W. W. and
Socialist Halls on July 19, 1913, and for the attack by drunken sailors
and soldiers on the I. W. W. hall on June 16, 1917, it can hardly be
accused of exaggeration in favor of the workers in this interview.

Following the publication of this interview the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce, Seattle's "Commercial Club," endeavored to father a movement
looking to the recall of Gill from office. Back of this attempt were
Judge Thomas Burke, Louis Lang, Jay Thomas, and four stall-fed
ministers, the Reverends W. A. Major, E. V. Shailer, Wood Stewart and
Carter Helm Jones. Of these, Thomas represented the liquor interests,
Lang was the former police chief who had been discharged in disgrace and
was herding scabs on the waterfront, Burke was chief spokesman for the
low-wage open-shop interests, and as to the preachers--the less said the
better. The lumber and shipping trusts had adequate representation at
the "Law and Order" meeting as the attempted recall gathering was
styled. But the whole thing fell flat when Gill himself offered to sign
the recall for the opportunity it would give him to tell the real facts
about the Everett case and the interests lined up behind the prosecution
and the recall.

On the night of the tragedy a report was circulated in Seattle to the
effect that every known I. W. W. would be arrested on sight. The answer
to this was a street meeting at which nearly ninety dollars were
collected as the first money toward the Everett Prisoners' Defense, and
the packing of the hall for weeks thereafter by members and sympathizers
who had no