This viewpoint will place Centralia in its proper perspective and enable one to trace the tragedy back to the circumstances and conditions that gave it birth.

This picture of labor persecution in free Americaterrible but truewill serve as a background for the dramatic history of the events leading up to the climactic tragedy at Centralia on Armistice Day, 1919.

When news reached them on November 4th of the contemplated "parade" they decided to publish a leaflet telling the Citizens of Centralia about the justice and legality of their position, the aims of their organization and the real reason for the intense hatred which the lumber trust harbored against them.

Her two blocks on "Main Street" showed her Centralia as a place of petty righteousness and petty vice.

Resident of Centralia for a number of years.

Is it any wonder the lumber barons hated him, and sought to break his spirit with brute force and legal cunningor that they conspired to murder it at Centralia with mob violenceand failed?