ree and four hundred
deportations, the vigilantes operating mainly from the Commercial Club.
Many of these "slugging parties" were attended by Mayor D. D. Merrill,
Governor Clough, Captain Harry Ramwell, T. W. Anguish, W. R. Booth,
Edward Hawse, and other "pillars of society" in Everett. Most of the men
were deported without any formalities whatever, and the methods used in
handling the others may well be judged by frequent entries on the police
blotter to the effect that men arrested by Great Northern detective Fox
were ordered turned over to Sheriff McRae by Mayor Merrill. The railroad
company, acting in conjunction with the lumber trust, put on a private
army, and had its men roughly dressed to resemble honest workingmen.
Cases of "hi-jacking" became quite numerous about this time, but no
redress from this highway robbery could be had.

On the question of the hiring of armed forces by the railroads the
Industrial Relations Commission Report has this to say:

"Under the authority granted by the several states the railroads
maintain a force of police, and some, at least, have established
large arsenals of arms and ammunition. This armed force, when
augmented by recruits from detective agencies and employment
agencies, as seems to be the general practice during industrial
disputes, constitutes a private army clothed with a degree of
authority which should be exercised only by public officials; these
armed bodies, usurping the supreme functions of the state and
oftentimes encroaching on the rights of citizens, are a distinct
menace to public welfare."

A number of the men deported during September and October were not
members of the I. W. W., some even being opposed at the time to the
tenet of the organization, "The working class and the employing class
have nothing in common," but almost without exception the non-members
who suffered deportation made it a point to join the union when the
nearest branch or field delegate was reached. In Everett, delegates
working quietly among the millmen, longshoremen, and other workers, were
also getting numerous recruits as the class struggle stood forth in its
naked form. All the efforts of the lumber trust to suppress the I. W. W.
were as tho they had tried to quench a forest fire with gasoline.

[Illustration: Beverly Park]

[Illustration: A close up view of Beverly Park showing cattle guards.]

It was on October 30th that