le weavers and the rest of the unions!"

Then, as he was leaving the hall, McRae pulled from his pocket a letter;
took from it a black cat cut from pasteboard and stuck it in the
secretary's face, saying "That's the kind of ----s that is in your
organization!"

Next morning the sheriff raided the hall and seized the men who were
found there, with the exception of the secretary. Turning to Micklin he
said boastfully "I'll bet you a hundred dollars you ----s won't hold
that meeting tomorrow!" McRae was drunk.

The arrested men were searched and deported and, as was the case in
every previous arrest and deportation, there was no resistance offered,
no physical violence threatened, and no weapons of any character found
upon any of the I. W. W. men.

That night the deputies were secretly assembled at the Commercial Club
where they were given their final instructions by the lumber trust and
ordered to report fully armed and ready for action at the blowing of the
mill whistles. With these preparations the open shop forces were ready
to go to still greater lengths to uphold "law and order!"

The answer of the I. W. W. to this damnable act of violence at Beverly
Park and to the four months of terrorism that had preceded it was a call
for two thousand men to enter Everett, there to gain by sheer force of
numbers that right of free speech and peaceable assembly supposed to
have been guaranteed them by the Constitution of the United States.[10]

[Illustration: The Ketchum Home near Beverly Park]

FOOTNOTE:

[10] (The incidents in the foregoing chapter are corroborated by the
sworn testimony of I. W. W. men who were shot at, beaten, robbed, and
abused; by citizens of Everett and Seattle who were also beaten and
mistreated or who witnessed the scenes; by physicians, attorneys, public
officials, members of craft unions, and by deputies who hoped to make
amends by testifying to the truth for the defense.)

CHAPTER IV.

BLOODY SUNDAY

How shall we enter the kingdom of Everett? was the question that
confronted the committee in charge of affairs in Seattle on the morning
of November 5th. Inquiries at the Interurban office developed the fact
that sufficient cars could not be had to accommodate the crowd. The cost
of making the trip by auto truck was found to be prohibitive. At the
eleventh hour the committee, taking the money pooled by the members,
secured the regular passenger steamship Verona, and an orderly and
det