sy between the citizens of Everett
on the one hand and these people from the four corners of the earth upon
the other. The first thing we want to inquire into to find out if we can
from the testimony in this case exactly what was the nature of that
trouble that existed between them. Why was it that upon the one hand
there was a band of people congregated down here in the city of Seattle
from all over the land and making one excursion after another,
attempting to break into the city of Everett? Why was it that there were
citizens of Everett up there seeking to do only one thing, asking only
one thing, that these people keep away from Everett?

"Was it a fight to win the right of free speech on the one hand? Was it
a fight on the other hand of a group of individuals who were simply
seeking to force the open shop? Or was it a fight of a more serious
nature on either hand?

"I grant you that the origin of the trouble arose because a man was
seeking to speak upon the streets of Everett and he was stopped. But
long before November 5th that original incident was lost sight of and
forgotten. The controversy had grown to a magnitude that overshadowed
the original incident. It was necessary in order that you might
understand the situation with which the people of Everett were
confronted that you should be apprised of the nature of the organization
to which those people belong, that you should be apprised of the nature
of the place in the world that they had attained, and that you should be
apprised of the nature of their propaganda that they were seeking to
inject into the city of Everett and that locality.

"I want to say right here and now that I have the highest regard for
organized labor. Labor has the right to organize. There is not any
question about it; there is not any dispute about it. Labor has
organized and it has made a manful fight, and all down the pages of
history you will find that labor, thru its organization and thru its
lawful methods pursued under its organization, has gradually bettered
its condition.

"It is not a question, and never has been in this case, as to the right
of the labor men to organize; the right of the laboring man to use all
of the lawful methods for the purpose of bettering his condition. The
question in this case is as to whether any organization, whether it be
a labor organization or any other, has the right to use unlawful
methods; whether it has the right, because it may have the po