e!" was their
indignant demand, and Peck and Mitten were set at liberty with the rest
as a result of this show of solidarity.

Upon his release Captain Mitten found that the life preservers had been
stolen from his boat, and the flattened bullet removed from his bunk.
Scotty Fife, the Port Captain of the American Tugboat Company, told
Captain Mitten that he had straightened up the things on the "Wanderer!"

Thus to the crimes of unlawful arrest, false imprisonment, theft,
deportation, assault and physical injury, the lumber trust added that of
piracy on the high seas. And all this was but a taste of what was yet to
come!

Organizer James Rowan returned to Everett from Anacortes on the
afternoon of September 11th and was met at the depot by three deputies
who promptly took him to the county jail. There were at that time
between thirty and forty other members of the I. W. W. being unlawfully
held. Rowan learned that these men had been taken from their cells one
at a time and beaten by the deputies, Thorne and Dunn having especially
severe cuts on the face and head.

Rowan's story of the outrage that followed gives a glimpse of the
methods employed by the lumber trust.

"As soon as I dropped off the train at Everett I was met by three
deputies. One of them told me the sheriff wanted to see me and I asked
if he was a deputy. He said, 'Yes,' and showed me a badge. Then I went
up with two of the deputies to the county jail. In a minute or two
Sheriff McRae came in and he was pretty drunk. He caught hold of me and
gave me a yank forward, and he says, 'So you are back, eh?' and I says
'Yes.' And he says 'We are going to fix you so you won't come back any
more.' There was some more abusive talk and then I was searched and put
in a cell.

"Just after dark that night I was taken out of the cell, my stuff was
given back, and McRae says, 'We are going to start you on the road to
Seattle.' With a deputy he took me out to the automobile and McRae drove
the automobile, and we had some conversation. McRae seemed to feel very
sore because I told the people on the street that the jail was lousy,
and he says 'We wanted you to get out of here and you would not do it,
and now,' he says, 'Now instead of dealing with officers you have to
deal with a bunch of boob citizens, and there is no telling what these
boobs will do.' There was more talk that is not worth repeating and most
of it not fit to repeat anyhow.

"We went out in the cou