tion of Everett, could not set one fire at least that would
do some damage. It is nothing but a hoax!

"As to force and violence, who did they put on to prove it? Young Howard
Hathaway, a mere boy, whose father represents some mill companies in
Everett. Then Sheriff McRae, and McRae couldn't tell you one thing that
he heard at the street meetings. Then they put on Ed Hawes, the big
brute that out at Beverly called the little boy a coward, a baby,
because he wouldn't stand there and be slugged with guns and clubs. And
what did Hawes say? That he looked up sabotage in the International
Dictionary! And you can search that book until you are black in the face
and you won't find a word in there about sabotage. Why, if sabotage is
such a terrible thing, did Hawes, having heard all about it at the
street meeting, have to go home to look it up at all?

"At these meetings there was not one thing said that could invite
criticism, there was not one thing said that could justify or invite
censure or abuse; there was not one disorderly thing done but was done
by the officers of the law themselves, and they went in recklessly,
without excuse, without right, they clubbed Henig, they clubbed Carr, a
former member of the council, and they roughed women around and knocked
them down. Why? Because these people were mill owners, their hirelings
and their representatives, who had been instructed in the propaganda of
the open shop by employes, aides and emissaries of the Merchants' and
Manufacturers' Association.

"A lot of people went to the jail one night, a thousand, maybe. They
hooted, they cat-called, and they hissed. Is it any wonder they did?
Ladies and gentlemen, I want to tell you there is no surer verdict on
earth than the verdict of a crowd; and the verdict of that crowd
condemned what the deputies had done.

"Finally they say there was a conspiracy on the 5th of November to go to
Everett and to hold their meeting at all hazard, to brook no opposition,
to ride rough-shod over it, to oppose everyone and anything that stood
in the way of accomplishing their purpose. I ask you to think just for a
moment how foreign that is to everything you know about the I. W. W. and
their operations and behavior in Everett. Not one witness for the state
could tell you an incident where one of them resisted arrest, could tell
you an occasion where one of them had advocated violence, could tell you
one occasion where any one of them had committed a