ature had been confiscated from the hall. The day following his
return, August 24th, Sheriff McRae blustered into the hall with a police
officer in his train. Leering at Remick he exclaimed:

"You God damn son of a b----, are you back here again? Get on your coat
and get into that auto!"

Seizing an I. W. W. stencil that was lying on the table he tore it to
shreds.

"If anybody asks who tore that up,"--bombastically--"tell them Sheriff
McRae tore it!"

Shoving Remick into the automobile with the remark that jail was too
easy for him and they would therefore take him to the Interurban and
deport him, the sheriff drove off to make good his threat. McRae was
drunk.

On the corner that night, Harry Feinberg spoke to a large audience and
was not molested. That this was due to no change of policy on the part
of the lumber trust tools was shown when secretary Herbert Mahler went
to Everett the following day in reference to the situation. He was met
at the depot by Sheriff McRae who asked him what he had come to Everett
for. "To see the Mayor," answered Mahler. "Anything you have to say to
the Mayor, you can say to me," was McRae's rejoinder. After a brief
conversation Mahler was deported to Seattle by the same car on which he
had made the trip over. McRae was drunk.

F. W. Stead reopened the hall on the 26th and managed to hold it down
for a couple of days. Three speakers appeared and spoke that night. J.
A. MacDonald, editor of the Industrial Worker, opened the meeting.
George Reese spoke next, but upon commencing to advocate the use of
violence he was pulled from the platform by Harry Feinberg, who
concluded the meeting. No arrests were made.

It was during this period that Secretary Herbert Mahler addressed a
letter to Governor Ernest Lister, informing him of the state of
lawlessness existing in Everett. A second letter was sent to Mayor
Merrill and in it was enclosed a copy of the letter to Lister. No reply
was received to the communication.

For a time following this there was no interference with street
meetings. Feinberg spoke without molestation on Monday night and Dan
Emmett opened up the hall once more. On Tuesday evening, the same night
as the theater riot, Thompson addressed an audience of thousands of
Everett citizens, giving them the facts of the arrests made the previous
week, and advising the workers against the use of violence in any
disputes with employers.

After having been held by McRae for eig