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of returned soldiers on the anniversary of Armistice Day, and they
of the I. W. W. headquarters. Some of the more ardent members
the parade to a halt in front of the headquarters, and set.html">set up a yell
pushed their way half thru it when the "wobblies.html">wobblies" opened fire from
men in the hall, some of them into insensibility; they flung them
of jail and carried him away in an automobile, and after they had
from a bridge. Of course they saw to it that the newspaper stories
stories; and next morning all America read how a group of "wobblies"
roof of the I. W. W. headquarters, and deliberately and in cold
veterans.
Of course the country went wild, and the Guffeys and McGivneys and
come. Peter instructed the secretary of the I. W. W. local of
resolution declaring the press stories from Centralia to be lies. At
wearing his, uniform, caused a meeting of the American Legion to be
that night some two-score of them set out, armed with big
headquarters, and battered the members over the head with the
their legs. Next morning the incident was reported in the American
issued a public statement to the effect that no effort would be made
action," and they had got it, and it would be assumed that they were
applause, and instigated by Guffey's ex-army officer, proceeded to
smashed the "Clarion" office and the Socialist Party headquarters
couple of book-stores, and then, breaking up into small groups, they
Red magazines like the Nation or the New Republic, they tore up. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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