urged on by their employer,
Neil Jamison, poured in from either side, leaving no means of escape
save that of making a thirty foot leap into the deep waters of the bay,
and with brass knuckles and blackjacks made an attack upon the
defenseless weavers. The pickets were unmercifully beaten. Robert H.
Mills, business agent of the Shingle Weavers' Union, was knocked down by
one of the open-shop thugs and kicked in the ribs and face as he lay
senseless in the roadway. From a vantage point, thoughtfully removed
from the danger zone, the police calmly surveyed the scene.

When darkness fell that night, the pickets, aided by irate citizens,
returned to the attack with clubs and fists. The tables were turned. The
"moral heroes" had their heads cracked. Seeing that the scabs were
thoroly whipped, the "guardians of the peace" rushed to the rescue with
drawn revolvers. In the melee one union picket was shot thru the leg.

About ten nights later, Mr. Jamison herded his scabs into military
formation and after a short parade thru the main streets led them to the
Everett Theater; the party being in appreciation of their "efficiency."
This arrogant display incensed the strikers and citizens, and when the
scabs emerged from the show a near-riot occurred. Mills was present and
altho too weak from his recent injuries to have taken any active part in
the fray, he was arrested and thrown in jail in default of bail. The man
who had murderously assaulted him at the mill swore out the complaint.
Mills was subsequently tried and acquitted on a charge of inciting to
riot. Nothing was done to his assailant. And in none of these acts of
violence was the I. W. W. in any way a participant.

During this period there existed a strike of longshoremen on the entire
Pacific Coast, including the port of Everett. The wrath of the employers
fell heavily upon the Riggers and Stevedores because that body was not
in sympathy with the idea of craft contracts or agreements, and because
of the adoption by a large majority of a proposal to "amalgamate all the
unions of the Maritime Transportation Industry, between the Warehouse at
the Shipping Point and Warehouse at the Receiving Point into one big
powerful organization, meeting, thinking, and acting together at all
times."[5] The industrially united employers of the Pacific Coast did
not relish the idea of the workers grouping themselves together along
lines similar to those on which the owners were associated.