that number thirty-seven were I. W. W.'s,
and twenty-four were not members at all but were Everett people from all
walks of life.

"Now counsel is going to discount the value of the testimony of these
citizens. Well, Mr. Cooley, we used the only kind of witnesses that you,
in all of your care exercised in advance on November 5th, left for us.
In the exercise of the highest degree of judicial advance knowledge they
saw to it that nobody got any closer to the end of the dock than the
landing. We could not help that. You barred us from the dock; you barred
us from access to the facts. We did all we could to get the facts, and
if we couldn't get any closer it was not our fault. And the man who
barred us from access to the facts is the man who is least qualified to
come into court now and urge that our witnesses are disqualified in the
face of the evidence that they disqualified them. But those witnesses
could testify, and they did testify, to the very definite and specific
facts--the first tipping of the boat, the rushing of the men, the volley
firing, all of those matters.

"At the eleventh hour there came into this case a man by the name of
Reese, a member, if you will, of the I. W. W. Back in the Chicago
stockyards they have a large pen where they keep the cattle which are to
be driven to slaughter. In that place they have had for years a steer
that has performed the function of going into the big pen where all the
cattle are, and, after mingling with them, then walking out thru a gate.
He is trained to do it, he is skilled at it, this steer--and after
walking around with the poor peaceful cattle that don't know they are
about to be killed, this steer then goes up an incline, the gate is
opened and the other cattle follow, and when he gets to the top of the
incline there is a door and he turns to the right thru this door to
safety and his followers turn to the left to death. That's George Reese!
Proud of him? George Reese, the man who reported day by day with his
confederates! To whom? During one period to the Pinkerton agency in
regard to the longshoremen's union; during another period on behalf of
the Pinkerton Agency to the Commercial Club in Everett. George Reese! A
man who doesn't even come under the approximately dignified title of a
detective; a man whom Ahern, of his own agency says, 'Well, he wasn't a
detective, we used him as an informer.' Informer! A human being that has
lost its human color.

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