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Centralia Conspiracy

Part 3 - The Human Element "The Timber Beast"

Submitted by x332349 on Fri, 07/19/2013 - 23:50

Lumber workers are, by nature of their employment, divided into two categories-the saw-mill hand and the logger. The former, like his brothers in the Eastern factories, is an indoor type while the latter is essentially a man of the open air. Both types are necessary to the production of finished lumber, and to both union organization is an imperative necessity.

Part 2 - Lumber: A Basic Industry

Submitted by x332349 on Fri, 07/19/2013 - 23:45

It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites. It seems that reason would preclude the possibility of any other arrangement, and that it would be considered as absurd for individuals to lay claim to forests, mines, railroads and factories as it would be for individuals to lay claim to the ownership of the sunlight that warms us or to the air we breathe.

Part 1 - A Tongue of Flame

Submitted by x332349 on Fri, 07/19/2013 - 23:34

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of flame; every prison a more illustrious abode; every burned book or house en-lightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin. It is the whipper who is whipped and the tyrant who is undone. -—Emerson.

THE CENTRALIA CONSPIRACY

MURDER OR SELF-DEFENSE?

Introduction to the 1973 Edition

Submitted by x332349 on Fri, 07/19/2013 - 23:30

By Eugene Nelson, IWW (August 1971)

The Centralia Conspiracy (Ralph Chaplin)

Submitted by x332349 on Mon, 12/01/1919 - 22:20

By Ralph Chaplin - 1919

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