o advocacy of violence, that no resistance was offered to arrest, and
that the I. W. W. meetings were well conducted in every particular, the
defense put on in fairly rapid succession a number of Everett citizens:
Mrs. Ina M. Salter, Mrs. Elizabeth Maloney, Mrs. Letelsia Fye, Bruce J.
Hatch, Mrs. Dollie Gustaffson, Miss Avis Mathison, Mrs. Peter Aiken,
Mrs. Annie Pomeroy, Mrs. Rebecca Wade, F. G. Crosby, and Mrs. Hannah
Crosby. The fact that these citizens, and a number of other women who
were mentioned in the testimony, attended the I. W. W. meetings quite
regularly, impressed the jury favorably. Some of these women witnesses
had been roughly handled by the deputies. Mrs. Pomeroy stated that the
deputies, armed with clubs and distinguished by white handkerchiefs
around their necks, invaded one meeting and struck right and left. "And
they punched me at that!" said the indignant witness.

"Punched you where?" inquired Vanderveer in order to locate the injury.

"They punched me on the sidewalk!" answered the witness, and the solemn
bailiff had to rap for order in the court room.

Cooley caught a Tartar in his cross-examination of Mrs. Crosby. He
inquired:

"Did you hear the I. W. W.'s say that when they got a majority of the
workers into this big union they would take possession of the
industries and run them themselves?"

"Why certainly!"

"You did hear them say they would take possession?"

"Why certainly!" flashed back the witness. "That's the way the North did
with the slaves, isn't it? They took possession without ever asking
them. My people came from the South and they had slaves taken away from
them and never got anything for it, and quite right, too!"

"Then you do believe it would be all right, yourself?" said Cooley.

"I believe that confiscation would be perfectly right in the case of
taking things that are publicly used for the public good of the
people----."

"That's all," hastily cut in Cooley.

"That they should be used then by the people and for the people!"
finished the witness.

"That's all!" cried Cooley loudly and more anxiously.

Frank Henig, the next witness, told of having been blackjacked by
Sheriff McRae and exhibited the large scar on his forehead that plainly
showed where the brutal blow had landed. He stated that he had tried to
secure the arrest of McRae for the entirely unwarranted attack but was
denied a warrant.

Jake Michel, secretary of the Everett Building Trades Council