Front page of the Seattle Star, with headline that reads, “7 killed, 50 wounded, is toll of Sunday’s I.W.W. battle.”
Today in #LaborHistory 3/5/1917: Members #IWW went on trial for the #Everett #Massacre (1916), even tho it was drunken #vigilantes who killed 12 IWW & 2 of their own. In “USA” trilogy, #DosPassos mentions Everett as “no place for the working man.”
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