This book is dedicated to those loyal soldiers of the great class war who were murdered on the steamer Verona at Everett, Washington, in the struggle for free speech and free assembly and the right to organize:

FELIX BARAN,
HUGO GERLOT,
GUSTAV JOHNSON,
JOHN LOONEY,
ABRAHAM RABINOWITZ,

and those unknown martyrs whose bodies were swept out to unmarked ocean graves on Sunday, November Fifth, 1916.

PRINTED BY THE
MEMBERS OF THE
GENERAL RECRUITING
UNION I. W. W.

CONTENTS

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PREFACE[5]
EVERETT, NOVEMBER FIFTH[7]
I. THE LUMBER KINGDOM[9]
II. CLASS WAR SKIRMISHES[27]
III. A REIGN OF TERROR[49]
IV. BLOODY SUNDAY[84]
V. BEHIND PRISON BARS[115]
VI. THE PROSECUTION[142]
VII. THE DEFENSE[177]
VIII. PLEADINGS AND THE VERDICT[230]
IX. SOLIDARITY SCORES A SUCCESS[289]
X. THE BANKRUPTCY OF "LAW AND ORDER" [297]

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