and there
would be little parts or shreds of clothing there, and on one there was
a little hair."

All that day the talk in Everett centered around the crime of the
preceding night. Little groups of citizens gathered here and there to
discuss the matter. The deputies went about strenuously denying that
they had a hand in the infamous affair, and friends of long standing
refused to speak to those who were known positively to have been
concerned in the outrage. A number of the ministers of the city
conferred regarding a course of action, but finding the problem too deep
for them to solve they left it to up to the individual. Various Everett
citizens, representing a large degree of public sentiment, felt that the
thing to do was to hold an immense mass meeting in order to present the
facts of the hideous crime to the whole public. This plan met with
immediate approval from many quarters, and the I. W. W. in Seattle was
notified of this desire by mail, by telephone, and by means of citizens'
delegations. Rev. Oscar McGill conferred with secretary Herbert Mahler
and was quite insistent upon the necessity for such a meeting, as the
Everett papers had carried no real information about the affair in
Beverly. He brought out the fact that there had been thousands in
attendance at the mass meeting in the Everett city park a month or so
previous to this occurrence, and the speakers were then escorted by a
large body of citizens from the interurban depot to the meeting place,
and the feelings of the people were such that similar or even more
adequate protection would be given were another meeting held. He
suggested that the meeting be held in broad daylight and on a Sunday.
That the plan met with the approval of the I. W. W. membership was shown
by its adoption at a meeting the night following the trouble at Beverly
Park. And the date selected was Sunday, November 5th.

Immediately steps were taken to inform the various I. W. W. branches in
the Northwest of the proposed action. Telegrams were sent to Solidarity,
and a ringing call for two thousand men to help in the fight for free
speech was published in the Industrial Worker. In addition to
telegraphing the story and its attendant call for action to the unions
of the Pacific Coast there were various members selected from among the
forty-one who had been beaten, and these were dispatched to different
points to spread the tale of Everett's atrocities, and to gain new
recruits for