Autopsy Photos of Assassinated IWW Member Wesley Everest
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
Everest was killed (beaten, hanged and shot) in Centralia, Washington by anti-IWW activists. The IWW newsletter published this picture of his autopsy in 1919. Image courtesy of the Industrial Workers of the World.
This file appears in: 1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
1917: IWW Offices Raided & Martial Law Declared
In 1917, this building was the home of the Legal Defense Fund office of the Industrial Workers of the World--a union of unskilled workers whose vigorous tactics made them both feared and derided as…