ng," replied Kelley, "but wait a
minute, you had better call up McRae and find out."

Attempts to reach McRae at the Commercial Club and the sheriff's office
met with failure. Meanwhile Feinberg had gone ahead with the meeting,
the following being his sworn statement of what transpired:

"I went to Everett at 7:30 Monday night. I got a box and opened a
meeting for the I. W. W. There must have been three thousand people on
the corner, against buildings and looking out of the windows.

"I spoke about 35 minutes, with the crowd boisterous in their applause.
Three companies of deputies and vigilantes, about one hundred and fifty
thugs in all, marched down the street and divided up in three companies.
One of the deputies came up and told me he wanted me and grabbed me off
the box.

"They took me up to the jail, took my description, and my money and
valuables, which were not returned. By that time Fellow Worker Roberts
was brought in. A drunken deputy came in and grabbed me by the coat and
dragged me out of the jail, with the evident permission of the officers.
The vigilantes proceeded to beat me up on the jail steps. There were
anyway fifty deputies waiting outside and all of them crowded to get a
chance to hit me. They gave me a chance to get away finally and shot
after me, or in the air, I could not tell which, but I was not hit by
the bullets."

The sworn statement of William Roberts corroborated the foregoing:

"I took the box after Fellow Worker Feinberg had been arrested. The
crowd were extreme in their hostility to the lawlessness of the
officers. I told them to keep cool, that the I. W. W. would handle the
situation, in their own time and way. They arrested me, and, right
there, they clubbed me on the head. They brought me to the jail, where
Feinberg was at the desk. They took me out of the jail and threw me into
the bunch of vigilantes with clubs. They started beating me around the
body. One of them said: 'Do anything, but don't kill him!'

"Finally one of them hit me on the head and I came out of it and as I
was getting away they shot in the air. A bunch of them then jumped into
an automobile, came after me and again clubbed me. One of them knocked
me out for ten minutes, according to one of the women who were watching.

"While we were in the jail, two men we did not know were brought into
the jail with their heads cut open. The vigilantes were clubbing women
right and left, and a young girl, about eight ye