{"id":5184,"date":"2017-11-03T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T07:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=5184"},"modified":"2017-11-05T02:03:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T10:03:54","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: DeMystifyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/span><\/p>\n

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100 years after Nov. 5 Everett Massacre we\u2019re still learning more<\/h1>\n

…the precocious lad asked a reference librarian if he could see \u201cThe Everett Massacre: A History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry.\u201d She denied his request. A book so taboo, it seemed, didn\u2019t belong in the hands of a child.<\/p>\n

Walker\u2019s scathing account blamed Everett mill owners, police and citizen deputies for a deadly Nov. 5, 1916 showdown on the waterfront. Two deputies and five Wobblies were killed in the gun battle. That was the official death toll anyway. A half-dozen others aboard the steamer Verona disappeared in Port Gardner that afternoon, never returning to pick up the union cards they\u2019d left at the IWW Hall in Seattle that morning.<\/p>\n

Dilgard, now 71, went on to become an historian, and he works out of the library where he\u2019d been rebuffed as a child. He has spent a lifetime researching that fateful day and the events that led up to it…<\/p>\n

As they had in other cities, the Wobblies frequented picket lines and street corners, taunting the industrial elite and wooing the working class.<\/p>\n

They stoked the fears of the city\u2019s leaders with the unsettling image of a spooky black cat. With its back arched and hackles raised, the cat appeared large, menacing and feral.<\/p>\n

The image was stealthily left as a calling card in many places, including the sheriff\u2019s Marysville farm.<\/p>\n

The labor press in early September played on the paranoia the cat evoked.<\/p>\n

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McRae and members of the Commercial Club became careful readers of the Industrial Worker. In its pages, they were teased with cryptic references to the cat \u2014 Wobbly slang for sabotage.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 2, 1916, an article threatened \u201cto turn the cat loose\u201d in the city if IWW members jailed for violating free speech laws weren\u2019t released.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 21, two weeks before the shootings, under the headline \u201cReign of Terror at Everett,\u201d the cat was reported to have sharpened its claws.<\/p>\n

The story said \u201cA rich and nourishing mess of cream has been provided for the kitten.\u201d…<\/p>\n

In Everett, deputized men in overcoats armed themselves with guns and rifles and tied white handkerchiefs around their necks to make it easier to identify allies. In a waterfront warehouse where most remained hidden, McRae, according to a trial transcript, gave them instructions. \u201cI told them they shouldn\u2019t display no arms, and not make no noise nor pass no remark, that I would do the talking myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Verona was the first to land, carrying roughly 260 passengers, mostly members of the IWW. Only one line was tied to the dock before McRae, flanked by Deputy Beard and Charles Curtiss, a National Guard lieutenant, walked up to the boat and shouted through a megaphone:<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is your leader?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all leaders,\u201d someone shouted back.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t land here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hell we can\u2019t\u201d was one reply among defiant catcalls.<\/p>\n

Who fired the first shot is still unknown. There were many conflicting accounts.<\/p>\n

McRae was hit three times, dinged in his heel and leg. Curtiss, 35, died instantly from a wound to the heart; Beard, 45, was shot in the lungs and died the following morning. Curtiss had three daughters; Beard was a father of four.<\/p>\n

The Wobblies scrambled for cover, nearly capsizing the steamship in their rush to the far side. A hail of bullets pounded the ship and screamed into the drink where men who\u2019d fallen overboard struggled to get back aboard. Wobblies Felix Baran, Hugo Gerlot, Gustav Johnson, John Looney and Abraham Rabinowitz died on the Verona\u2019s decks. Their lives would be remembered in black-and-white IWW postcards. They became martyrs for the IWW that day.<\/p>\n

More than 50 people on ship and shore were injured during the gunfight.\u00a0 www.heraldnet.com\/news\/100-years-after-the-everett-massacre-were-still-learning-more\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Guy Fawkes Night Nov 5 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, ’twas his intent<\/strong>
\n To blow up the King and the Parliament<\/strong>
\n Three score barrels of powder below<\/strong>
\n Poor old England to overthrow<\/strong>
\n By God’s providence he was catch’d<\/strong>
\n With a dark lantern and burning match<\/strong>
\n Holler boys, holler boys, let the bells ring<\/strong>
\n Holler boys, holler boys, God save the King!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A penny loaf to feed the Pope<\/strong>
\n A farthing o’ cheese to choke him<\/strong>
\n A pint of beer to rinse it down<\/strong>
\n A faggot of sticks to burn him<\/strong>
\n Burn him in a tub of tar<\/strong>
\n Burn him like a blazing star<\/strong>
\n Burn his body from his head<\/strong>
\n Then we’ll say ol’ Pope is dead.<\/strong>
\n Hip hip hoorah!<\/strong>
\n Hip hip hoorah!<\/strong>
\n Hip hip hoorah!<\/strong><\/p>\n