Word: centralia
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...killing of four veterans of the World War of Centralia, Washington, was not only dastardly, it was, for the success of the I. W. W. movement, exceedingly unwise. In addition to horrifying the entire population of the country, it aroused the special enmity of the American Legion, under the banner of which the murdered men were marching. This latter body, numbering nearly four million men, represents, as it were, a cross-section of American society. In its ranks are enrolled members of all social and industrial classes. The I. W. W., in aiming its weapons against the Legion...