Throughout the northwest these kinds of
outrages have been continually perpetrated against members of the I.
W. W. County jails and city prisons in nearly every state in the
Union have held or are holding members of this organization.
"We charge that members of the I. W. W. have been tarred and
feathered. Frank H. Meyers was tarred and feathered by a gang of
prominent citizens at North Yakima, Washington. D. S. Dietz was
tarred and feathered by a mob led by representatives of the Lumber
Trust at Sedro, Wooley, Washington. John L. Metzen, attorney for the
Industrial Workers of the World, was tarred and feathered and
severely beaten by a mob of citizens of Staunton, Illinois. At
Tulsa, Oklahoma, a mob of bankers and other business men gathered up
seventeen members of the I. W. W., loaded them in automobiles,
carried them out of town to a patch of woods, and there tarred and
feathered and beat them with rope.
"We charge that members of the Industrial Workers of the World have
been deported, and cite the cases of Bisbee, Arizona, where 1,164
miners, many of them members of the I. W. W., and their friends,
were dragged out of their homes, loaded upon box cars, and sent out
of the camp.
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