Word: ported
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...I.W.W. decided to even scores with Port Arthur for its treatment of their members. Their plan was ingeniously simple. Orders went forth from headquarters in San Francisco, Chicago, New York for footloose I. W. W. to start for Port Arthur. It was claimed that 20,000 were on their way. They were to be arrested for vagrancy, and once in jail, "eat the town out of house and home...
Officials of Port Arthur announced that they would be put to work on the roads, where it is difficult to get laborers to work, on account of heat and mosquitoes. The I. W. W. plan did not sound very promising, because the organization only claims 35,000 members, and to assemble 20,000 of them from all over the country including many points over 2,000 miles away seemed a large order...
Meanwhile Ku Klux Klan posts in neighboring towns had notified Port Arthur officials that they "sanctioned and approved" the town's action. The Texas Commander of the American Legion telegraphed that the Legion would support the town in all lawful ways...
Shortly afterward, however, I. W. W. officials announced that the invasion of Port Arthur had been canceled, and that a short "demonstration" strike in Gulf ports would be substituted as a protest. Other I. W. W. officials denied this change of plans, but the consensus of opinion among the I. W. W. officials seemed to be that the original plan was abandoned...
...Secretary of the Marine Transport Workers (I. W. W.) wired to the Port Arthur post of the American Legion that in their efforts to establish law and order, the Legion and the I. W. W. were...