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On this day in Labor History

February 9, 1917
Wobblie activist Tom Mooney convicted in bombing frame-up orchestrated by Pinkerton Detective Agency. He was pardoned and released 22 years later - 1917
January 3, 1917
Wobblie Tom Mooney tried in San Francisco for Preparedness Day bombing - 1917
November 5, 1916
Everett, Wash., massacre, at least seven Wobblies killed, 50 wounded and an indeterminate number missing. Bloody Sunday Everett, a few hundred members of the Industrial Workers of the World traveled from Seattle to Everett, Washington by boat. Everett’s sheriff and about 200 armed men met them at the dock to prevent them from landing and a gun battle ensued in which five Wobblies and two of the sheriff’s deputies were killed. - 1916
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