n Everett. All went
at once to the I. W. W. hall upon gaining their freedom, and from there
nearly the whole body of released men went to Mount Pleasant cemetery to
visit the graves of their dead fellow workers.

Returning to the hall, those who had previously been delegates, or who
had fitted themselves for the work while in jail, immediately took out
credentials and started on an organizing campaign of the Northwest, with
the uniting of the workers in the lumber industry as their main object.

[Illustration: Gus Johnson Felix Baran John Looney]

[Illustration: Hugo Gerlot Abraham Rabinowitz]

The dearth of workers due to the war, the tremendous advertisement the
I. W. W. had received because of the tragedy and the trial, and the
spirit of mingled determination and resentment that had grown up in the
jail, made the work easy for these volunteer organizers. Members joined
by the dozen, then by the score, and finally by the hundreds.

Seattle had but two officials under pay on November 5th--Herbert
Mahler, secretary of the I. W. W., and J. A. MacDonald, editor of the
Industrial Worker. By July 4th, 1917, one year from the time of the
loggers' convention at which there were only half a hundred paid up
members, the I. W. W. in Seattle had thirty people under pay, working at
top speed to take care of the constantly increasing membership, and
preparations were under way to launch the greatest lumber strike ever
pulled in the history of the industry with the eight hour day as the
main demand. That strike in which thousands of men stood out for week
after week in the face of persecution of every character, in the face of
raids upon their halls and the illegal detention of hundreds of members
by city, county, state and federal agents, and in the face of
deportations by mobs of lumber trust hirelings, deserves a volume to
itself.

This activity in the lumber industry reflected itself in all other
lines, particularly so in construction projects all over the Northwest.
Demands for literature, for speakers, for organizers, flooded the
offices of the organization and many opportunities to organize had to be
passed by simply because there were not enough men capable of taking up
the work.

Part of this growth was of those who had interested themselves in the
trial. Many of those who had gone on the witness stand for the defense
afterwards took out membership cards in the I. W. W. The women of
Everett,--considerably more in