here, a revolver about that long. (Indicating.) I said something to him
and then he ran the revolver right in here in my groin and he ruptured
me at the same time. I told him 'It's a fine way of using a citizen.' He
says, 'You're a hell of a citizen, bringing in a bunch like that,' he
says, 'to cause a riot in this town.' I says, 'Well, they are all union
men anyway.' He says, 'You shut your damn head or I will knock it clean
off!' and I guess he would, because he had whiskey enough in him at the
time to do it.

"There was a small man, I believe they call him Miller, he saw him
standing there and he says, 'You here, too?' and he hauled off and
struck him in the temple and the blood flowed way down over his face
and shirt. He struck him again and staggered him. If he hadn't struck
him so he would have gone inboard, he would have gone over the edge,
close to the edge.

"Then there was a man by the name of Berg, it seemed he knowed John
Berg. He said, 'You ----, I will fix you so you will never come back!'
and then he went at Berg, but Berg was foxy and kept ducking his head.
He rapped him on the shoulders two or three different times, I wouldn't
say how often, but he didn't draw blood on Berg. (An I. W. W. member
named Kurgvel was also beaten on the head and shoulders.)

"They drove us all in alongside of the boiler between the decks, down on
the main deck of the "Edison" and kept us there till they docked and got
automobiles and the patrol wagon and filed us off into them and took us
to jail."

The arrest of Captain Mitten and acting engineer Oscar Lindstrom made
twenty-one prisoners in all, and these were jailed without any charge
being placed against them. As Berg was taken into the jail, McRae cursed
him roundly, ordering two deputies to hold him while a beating was
administered over the shoulders and back with a leather strap loaded
with lead on the tip.

The men were treated with great brutality within the jail. One young
fellow was asked by the deputies, "Are you an I. W. W.?" and each time
the lad answered "Yes!" he was thrown violently against the steel walls
of the cell, until his body was a mass of bruises. Mitten was denied a
chance to communicate with his Everett friends in order to get bail. The
nights were cold and the prisoners had to sleep on the bare floor
without blankets.

At the end of nine days all the men were offered their liberty except
Mitten. They promptly refused the offer. "All or non