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To: Dream Warrior

U.S. SAILORS RAID SEATTLE SOCIALISTS; Wreck I.W.W. Hall, Burn Furniture — Stirred by Daniels’ Speech on Red Flag.

NYT

July 19, 1913, Saturday

Page 1, 782 words

SEATTLE, July 18. — A party of United States marines and sailors from the Pacific reserve fleet, most of the sailors wearing the name bands of the cruisers Colorado and California, started to-night to “clean up the town” as they expressed it, by attacking Socialists’ headquarters and Industrial Workers of the World.....


532 posted on 07/19/2009 10:32:29 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Rome2000

If only


533 posted on 07/20/2009 2:05:25 AM PDT by mojitojoe (All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
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