out to make it appear that the song was obscene. And tho the P.--I. had
published the song in full the Times placed beneath their garbled
version these words, "The portions blotted out are words and phrases
such as never appear in The Times or in any other decent newspaper." The
simultaneous appearance of this song in a number of papers was merely a
coincidence, no doubt; there is no reason to believe that the lumber
trust inspired the attack!

Allied as usual with the capitalist press and "stool pigeons" and
employers' associations in a campaign to discredit the workers involved
in the case, was the moribund Socialist Labor Party thru its organ, the
Weekly People.

The entire I. W. W. press came to the support of the imprisoned men as a
matter of course. The Seattle Union Record and many other craft union
papers, realizing that an open shop fight lay back of the suppression of
free speech, also did great publicity work. But no particular credit is
due to those "labor leaders" who, like J. G. Brown, president of the
Shingle Weavers' Union, grudgingly gave a modicum of assistance under
pressure from radicals in their respective organizations.

The Northwest Worker of Everett deserves especial praise for its
fearless and uncompromising stand in the face of the bitterest of
opposition. This paper had practically to suspend publication because of
pressure the lumber trust brought to bear on the firm doing their
printing. This, with the action recorded in the minutes of the
Commercial Club, "decided to go after advertisements in labor journals
and the Northwest Worker," shows that a free press is as obnoxious to
the lumber lords as are free speech and free assembly.

It scarcely needs noting that the International Socialist Review
rendered yeoman service, as that has been its record in all labor cases
since the inception of the magazine. Several other Socialist
publications, to whom the class struggle does not appear merely as a
momentary quadrennial event, also did their bit. Diverse foreign
language publications, representing varying shades of radical thought,
gave to the trial all the publicity their columns could carry.

Just why seventy-four men were picked as prisoners is a matter of
conjecture. Probably it was because the stuffy little Snohomish county
jail could conveniently, to the authorities, hold just about that
number. The men were placed four in a cell with ten cells to each tank,
there being two tanks o