rhouser Lumber Company 10, the Clough-Hartley Mill Company 5, the
Jamison Mill Company 5, and other mills and allied industries also
purchased memberships in bulk. Organized labor, however, had no
representation at the Commercial Club.

There is nothing in the history of Everett to suggest the usual
spontaneous outgrowth of the honest endeavors of hardy pioneer settlers.
From the first day the Rockefeller interests set foot in the virgin
forests of Snohomish County up to the present time, the spirit of
democracy has been crushed by the greed and cupidity of this small and
powerful group.

The struggle at Everett was but one of the inevitable phases of the
larger struggle that takes place when a class or group that has no
property comes in contact with those who have monopolized the earth and
its resources. It was no new, marvelous, isolated case of violence. It
was the normal accompaniment of industry based upon the exploitation of
wage workers, and was of one piece with the outbreak on the Mesaba
Range, in Bayonne, Ludlow, Paint Creek, Paterson, Lawrence, San Diego,
Fresno, Spokane, Homestead and in countless other places. All these
apparently disconnected and sporadic uprisings of labor and the
accompanying capitalist violence are joined together in a whole that
spells wage slavery. As one of the manifestations of the class conflict,
the Everett tragedy cannot be considered apart from that age-long and
world-wide struggle between the takers of profits and the makers of
values.

FOOTNOTE:

[1] Data on Forest Reserve taken from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
articles by Gifford Pinchot.

CHAPTER II.

CLASS WAR SKIRMISHES

"Shingle-weaving is not a trade; it is a battle. For ten hours a day the
sawyer faces two teethed steel discs whirling around two hundred times a
minute. To the one on the left he feeds heavy blocks of cedar, reaching
over with his left hand to remove the rough shingles it rips off. He
does not, he cannot stop to see what his left hand is doing. His eyes
are too busy examining the shingles for knot holes to be cut out by the
second saw whirling in front of him.

"The saw on his left sets the pace. If the singing blade rips fifty
rough shingles off the block every minute, the sawyer must reach over to
its teeth fifty times in sixty seconds; if the automatic carriage feeds
the odorous wood sixty times into the hungry teeth, sixty times he must
reach over, turn the shingle, trim its edge