International Socialist Review (1900) Vol 17

FIVE
The Voyage of the Verona
workers and two vigilantes dead,
thirty-one workers and nineteen
vigilantes wounded, from four to
seven workers missing and probably
drowned, two hundred ninety- four men
and three women of the working class in
jail—this is the tribute to the class struggle
in Everett, Wash., on Sunday, November
5. Other contributions made almost
daily during the past six months have indicated
the character of the Everett authorities,
but the protagonists of the open
shop and the antagonists of free speech did
not stand forth in all their hideous nakedness
until the tragic trip of the steamer
Verona. Not until then was Darkest Russia
robbed of its claim to "Bloody Sunday."
Early Sunday morning on November 5
the steamer Verona started for Everett
from Seattle with 260 members of the Industrial
Workers of the World as a part
of its passenger list. On the steamer Calista,
which followed, were 38 more I. W.
By WALKER C. SMITH
THE VERONA ARRIVING AT SEATTLE WITH ITS CARGO OF DEAD
AND WOUNDED
840
W. men, for whom no room could be
found on the crowded Verona. Songs of
the One Big Union rang out over the
waters of Puget Sound, giving evidence
that no thought of violence was present.
It was in answer to a call for volunteers
to enter Everett to establish free
speech and the right to organize that the
band of crusaders were making the trip.
They thought their large numbers would
prevent any attempt to stop the street
meeting that had been advertised for that
afternoon at Hewitt and Wetmore avenues
in handbills previously distributed in
Everett. Their mission was an open and
peaceable one.
The Seattle police, knowing that I. W.
W. men had been jailed, beaten and deported
from Everett, singly and in crowds,
during the past six months, without committing
a single act of personal violence in
retaliation, made no attempt to detain the
men, but merely telephoned to the Everett
authorities that a
large number had
left for that city.
Two Pinkerton detectives
were on
board the Verona,
according to the police
and to members
of the I. W. W. The
capitalist press of
Seattle and Everett
claim that all the I.
W. W. men were
armed "to the teeth/'
On behalf of the I.W.
W. some have made
the counter claim
that the men were
absolutely unarmed,
as was the case in all
form er "invasions."
Deputy Prosecuting
Attorney H e 1 s e 1 1,
King County, who
is assisting the prosecutor
of Snohomish
County, has stated
in an interview that
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