They were confined for months at Columbus, New Mexico.
Many cases are now pending against the copper companies and business
men of Bisbee. A large number of members were deported from Jerome,
Arizona. Seven members of the I. W. W. were deported from Florence,
Oregon, and were lost for days in the woods, Tom Lassiter, a
crippled news vender, was taken out in the middle of the night and
badly beaten by a mob for selling the Liberator and other radical
papers.
"We charge that members of the I. W. W. have been cruelly and
inhumanly beaten. Hundreds of members can show scars upon their
lacerated bodies that were inflicted upon them when they were
compelled to run the gauntlet. Joe Marko and many others were
treated in this fashion at San Diego, California. James Rowan was
nearly beaten to death at Everett, Washington. At Lawrence,
Massachusetts, the thugs of the Textile Trust beat men and women who
had been forced to go on strike to get a little more of the good
things of life. The shock and cruel whipping which they gave one
little Italian woman caused her to give premature birth to a child.
At Red Lodge, Montana, a member's home was invaded and he was hung
by the neck before his screaming wife and children.
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