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Mill Town Under Siege–Everett, Washington, 1916 (Part Two)
34-year-old Mike Scanlon, itinerant worker and I.W.W. member–along with some 40 others–has managed to survive a beating the previous Monday night at Beverly Park, south of Everett. Led by the Snohomish County Sheriff, the attackers were made up of several … Continue reading
Posted in Everett WA, history, labor, social protest
Tagged !.W.W., Beverly Park Beating, class warfare, Everett Commercial Club, Everett Massacre, Joe Hill, Lumber Trust, Sheriff Donald McRae, Shingle Weavers' Union, Snohomish County, socialism, Spokane Free Speech Fight, strikes, Washington state
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A Mill Town Under Siege: Everett, Washington – 1916 (Part One)
Hewitt Ave., Everett, WA., ca. 1910 Everett Public Library On May Day, 1916, every shingle mill in the bay-side city of Everett, Washington, shut down. The men who saw, grade and pack the cedar shingles were striking. … Continue reading
Posted in Everett WA, history, labor
Tagged Beverly Park Beating, Everett Blockade, Everett Commercial Club, Everett Massacre, Great Northern Railway, Great War, I.W.W., Seattle-Everett Interurban, Sheriff Donald McRae, Shingle mills, Shingle Weavers' Union, Snohomish County, strikes
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The Homestead Steel Strike–Aftermath
July, 1892: Jimmy Scanlon, in Everett, Washington, has been following the distant events of the Homestead Steel strike. Excerpted from Chapter 21, Beyond the Divide–Available from Village Books, Fairhaven (Wash., U.S.A.); and from Amazon It’s rare for the law to be … Continue reading
The Homestead Steel Strike–Part Two
Gaining fame for ensuring the safety of President Lincoln on his inaugural trip to Washington D.C. back in 1861, by the 1890s The Pinkerton Detective Agency had evolved into a multifaceted organization chiefly known–and despised among the laboring classes–for providing … Continue reading
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