are born and when the children are being carried in the mother’s womb that they are compelled to go into the industries and work and work and work, and before the child can receive proper nourishment the mother is compelled to go back into the industry and work again.  The I.W.W.’s say there must be a fundamental change and that fundamental change must be in the line of reorganization of industry, for public service, so that the purpose shall be that we will work to live and not merely live to work.  Work for service rather than work for profit.

[Illustration:  James McInerney

(After he had undergone the “Third degree".)

McInerney had a rope around his neck nearly all night before this picture was taken.  One end of the rope had been pulled taut over a beam by his tormentors.  McInerney had told them to “go to hell.”  “It’s no use trying to get anything out of a man like that,” was the final decision of the inquisitors.]

To Kill an Ideal...

Some time in September, counsel told you, the I.W.W., holding these beliefs, opened a hall in Centralia.  Back of that hall was a living room, where Britt Smith lived, kept his clothes and belongings and made his home.  From then on the I.W.W. conducted a regular propaganda meeting every Saturday night.  These propaganda meetings were given over to a discussion of these industrial problems and beliefs.  From that district there were dispatched into nearby lumber camps and wherever there were working people to whom to carry this message—­there were dispatched organizers who went out, made the talks in the camps briefly and sought to organize them into this union, at least to teach them the philosophy of this labor movement.

Because that propaganda is fatal to those who live by other people’s work, who live by the profits they wring from labor, it excited intense opposition on the part of employers and business people of Centralia and about the time this hall was opened we will show you that people from Seattle, where they maintain their headquarters for these labor fights, came into Centralia and held meetings.  I don’t know what they call this new thing they were seeking to organize—­it is in fact a branch of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association of the United States, a national organization whose sole purpose is to fight and crush and beat labor.  It was in no sense a local movement because it started in Seattle and it was organized by people from Seattle, and the purpose was to organize in Centralia an organization of business men to combat this new labor philosophy.  Whether in the mouths of the I.W.W., or Nonpartisan League, or the Socialists, it did not make any difference; to brand anybody as a traitor, un-American, who sought to tell the truth about our industrial conditions.

The Two Raids

In the fall of 1918, the I.W.W. had a hall two blocks and a half from this hall, at the corner of First and B streets.  There was a Red Cross parade, and that hall was wrecked, just as was this hall.  These profiteering gentlemen never overlook an opportunity to capitalize on a patriotic event, and so they capitalized the Red Cross parade that day just as they capitalized the Armistice Day parade on November 11, and in exactly the same way as on November 11.