Pamphlet Volumes on the Centralia Industrial Workers of the World Tragedy
Author : Industrial Workers of the World
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Lumber trade
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Author : Industrial Workers of the World
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Lumber trade
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Author : Tom Copeland
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,79 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0295800674
On November 11, 1919, the citizens of Centralia, Washington, gathered to watch former servicemen, local Boy Scouts, and other community groups march in the Armstice Day parade. When the marchers swung past the meeting hall of the Industrial Workers of the World, a group of veterans broke ranks, charged the hall, and were met by gunshots. Before the day was over, four of the marchers were dead and one of the Wobblies had been lynched by the mob. Through a wealth of newly available primary source material including previously sealed court documents, FBI records released under the Freedom of Information Act, and interviews with surviving witnesses, Tom Copeland has pieced together the events of that day and has traced the fate of the men who were accused and convicted of murdering the marchers. Copeland focuses on Elmer Smith, the local attorney who advised the Wobblies that they had the right to defend their hall against an anticipated attack. Although he never belonged to the IWW, Smith sympathized with their interests, championing the rights of working people, and speaking on their behalf. He was originally arrested with the Wobbles and then took up their cause in the courts, beginning a life-long struggle to free the men who were charged with murdering the Centralia marchers. Copeland recounts Smith’s disbarment and eventual reinstatement, his run for political office, his speeches throughout the Northwest, and his unyielding support for the workers’ cause. This book is a balanced treatment of the Centalia tragedy and its legal repercussions written by a practicing lawyer. It is also a compelling human drama, centering on the marginal life of an industrial frontier labor lawyer, a study of radical politics of the 1920s, and a depiction of conditions of life in the lumber camps and towns. It is thus biography as well as legal, political, and social history.
Author : Ben Hur Lampman
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Centralia (Wash.)
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Author : John M. McClelland (Jr.)
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Page : 278 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
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Author :
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Books
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Author : State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library
Publisher : Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Out-of-print books
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Author : Ralph Chaplin
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Centralia (Wash.)
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Author : Lorrin L. Morrison
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic journals
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Page : 796 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Law
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