international president of the Shingle Weavers' Union, was refused
permission to testify. The committee claimed that the employers could
not pay the wages asked. An adverse report was returned and was adopted
by the club.

Attorneys E. C. Dailey, Robert Fassett, and George Loutitt, along with a
number of other fair minded members who did not favor the open shop
program, withdrew from membership on account of these various actions.
Their names were placed on the bulletin board and a boycott advised.
Feeling against the organization responsible for the chaotic conditions
in Everett finally became so strong that practically all of the
merchants whose places were not mortgaged or who were not otherwise
dependent upon the whims of the lumber barons, posted notices in their
windows,

"WE ARE NOT MEMBERS OF THE COMMERCIAL CLUB."

Their names, too, were placed on the bulletin board, and the boycott and
other devices used in an endeavor to force them into bankruptcy.

Prior to these occurrences and for some time thereafter, the club was
addressed by emissaries of the open shop interests. A. L. Veitch,
special counsel for the Merchants' and Manufacturers' Association, on
one occasion addressed the deputies on labor troubles in San Francisco
and the methods used to handle them. Veitch was later one of the
attorneys in the case against Thomas H. Tracy, and he was employed by
the state, it being stipulated that he receive no state compensation. H.
D. Cooley, lumber mill lawyer and former prosecuting attorney, also
spoke at different times on the open shop questions. Cooley was likewise
an attorney for the prosecution in the Tracy case and he, like Veitch,
was retained by "interested parties." Cooley was one of the anti-union
speakers at a meeting of the deputies which was also addressed by F. C.
Beach, of San Francisco, president of the M. & M., Robert Moody,
president of the First National Bank of Everett, Governor Clough, mill
magnate, F. K. Baker, president of the Commercial Club, and Col. Roland
H. Hartley, open shop candidate for the nomination as governor of
Washington at the pending election. Leigh Irvine, of Seattle, secretary
of the Employers' Association, and Murray, president of the National
Association of Manufacturers, were also active in directing the
destinies of the Commercial Club.

A special open shop committee was formed, the nature of its operations
being apparent when the following two quotations