The Centralia Conspiracy

About this eBook

Author

Chaplin, Ralph, 1887-1961

Credits

E-text prepared by Curtis A. Weyant

Language

English

LoC Class

HD: Social sciences: Economic history and conditions, Production

Subject

Centralia Massacre, Centralia, Wash., 1919

Category

Text

eBook-No.

10725

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10725

Release Date

January 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Centralia Conspiracy
2. 2.By Ralph Chaplin
3. 3.A Tongue of Flame — The Centralia Conspiracy
4. 4.Murder or Self-Defense?
5. 5.A Labor Case
6. 6.The Forests of the Northwest
7. 7.Lumber--A Basic Industry
8. 8.From Pioneer to Parasite
9. 9.Stealing the People's Forest Land
10. 10.The Triumph of Monopoly
11. 11.The Human Element--"The Timber Beast"
12. 12.What Is a Casual Laborer?
13. 13."Lumber-Jack" The Giant Killer
14. 14.The Factory Worker and the Lumber-Jack
15. 15.Why the Loggers Organized
16. 16.Organization and the Opening Struggle
17. 17.A Massacre and a New Law
18. 18.The Eight Hour Day and "Treason"
19. 19.Industrial Heretics and the White Terror
20. 20.Autocracy vs. Unionism
21. 21.While in Washington...
22. 22.Weathering the Storm
23. 23.Sinister Centralia
24. 24.The High Priests of Labor Hatred
25. 25.The Loved and Hated Union Hall
26. 26.Pioneers of Unionism
27. 27.The Block House and the Union Hall
28. 28.The First Centralia Hall
29. 29.The 1918 Raid
30. 30.A Lawyer--and a Man
31. 31.Blind Tom--A Blemish on America
32. 32.The Conspiracy Develops
33. 33.The Conspiracy--And a Snag
34. 34.Renewed Efforts--Legal and Otherwise
35. 35.The Employers Show Their Fangs
36. 36.Failure and Desperation
37. 37.The Maelstrom--And Four Men
38. 38.Shadows Cast Before
39. 39.Meeting of Business Men Called for Friday Evening
40. 40.The New Black Hundred
41. 41.The Inner Circle
42. 42.The Plot Leaks Out
43. 43.To the Citizens of Centralia We Must Appeal
44. 44."Let the Men in Uniform Do It"
45. 45."Decent Labor"--Hands Off!
46. 46."I Hope to Jesus Nothing Happens"
47. 47.The Scorpion's Sting
48. 48."Let's go! At 'em, boys!"
49. 49."I Had No Business Being There"
50. 50.Through the Hall Window
51. 51.Wesley Everest
52. 52.Dale Hubbard
53. 53."Let's Finish the Job!"
54. 54."Here Is Your Man"
55. 55.The Night of Horrors
56. 56.The Human Fiend
57. 57.Lynching--An American Institution
58. 58."As Comical as a Corner"
59. 59.The Man-Hunt
60. 60.Hypocrisy and Terror
61. 61."Patriotic" Union Smashing
62. 62.Vanderveer's Opening Speech
63. 63.A Labor Movement on Trial
64. 64.To Kill an Ideal...
65. 65.The Two Raids
66. 66.Patience No Longer a Virtue
67. 67.Vanderveer's Closing Argument
68. 68.Why Were the Shots Fired?
69. 69."Fearful of the Truth"
70. 70.Why Were Ropes Carried?
71. 71.The Lumber Trust Wins the Jury
72. 72.But Labor Says, "Not Guilty!"
73. 73.Labor's Verdict
74. 74.Wesley Everest

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