room.

While awaiting the arrival of this witness, Feinberg was questioned
further, and was then taken from the stand to allow the examination of
two Everett witnesses, Mrs. L. H. Johnson and P. S. Johnson, the latter
witness being withdrawn when Ahern put in an appearance.

Vanderveer was very brief, but to the point, in the examination of the
local head of the Pinkerton Agency.

"Mr. Ahern, on the fifth day of November you had in your employ a man
named George Reese?"

"Yes sir."

"For whom was he working, thru you, at that time?"

"For Snohomish County."

"That's all!" said Vanderveer triumphantly.

Cooley did not seem inclined to cross-examine the witness at any length
and Vanderveer in another straightforward question brought out the fact
that Reese was a Pinkerton employe during the Longshoremen's
strike--this being the time that Reese also was seated as a delegate to
the Seattle Trades Council of the A. F. of L.

A portion of the testimony of Mrs. L. H. Johnson was nearly as important
as that concerning Reese. She recited a conversation with Sheriff McRae
as follows:

"McRae said he would stop the I. W. W. from coming to Everett if he had
to call out the soldiers. And I told him the soldiers wouldn't come out
on an occasion like this, they were nothing but Industrial Workers of
the World and they had a right to speak and get people to join their
union if they wanted to. And he said he had the backing of the millmen
to keep them out of the city, and he was going to do it if he had to
call the soldiers out and shoot them down when they landed there, when
they came off the dock."

[Illustration: Cutting off top of tree to fit block for flying machine.]

This clearly indicated the bloodthirsty designs of the millmen and the
sheriff at a time long before November 5th.

G. W. Carr, Wilfred Des Pres, and J. M. Norland testified to the
breaking up of peaceably conducted I. W. W. meetings, Des Pres also
telling of rifles having been transported from the Pacific Hardware
Company to the dock on November 5th. All three were Everett citizens.
Black asked Norland if he knew what sabotage was, to which Norland
replied:

"Everybody that follows the labor movement knows what sabotage is."

There was a sensation in court at this question for it was the first and
only time that any of the prosecution counsel correctly pronounced the
word sabotage!

W. W. Blain, secretary of the Commercial Club, altho an unwilli