Chapters (74)
- The Centralia Conspiracy
- A Tongue of Flame
- The Centralia Conspiracy
- Murder or Self-Defense?
- A Labor Case
- The Forests of the Northwest
- Lumber--A Basic Industry
- From Pioneer to Parasite
- Stealing the People's Forest Land
- The Triumph of Monopoly
- The Human Element--"The Timber Beast"
- What Is a Casual Laborer?
- "Lumber-Jack" The Giant Killer
- The Factory Worker and the Lumber-Jack
- Why the Loggers Organized
- Organization and the Opening Struggle
- A Massacre and a New Law
- The Eight Hour Day and "Treason"
- Industrial Heretics and the White Terror
- Autocracy vs. Unionism
- While in Washington...
- Weathering the Storm
- Sinister Centralia
- The High Priests of Labor Hatred
- The Loved and Hated Union Hall
- Pioneers of Unionism
- The Block House and the Union Hall
- The First Centralia Hall
- The 1918 Raid
- A Lawyer--and a Man
- Blind Tom--A Blemish on America
- The Conspiracy Develops
- The Conspiracy--And a Snag
- Renewed Efforts--Legal and Otherwise
- The Employers Show Their Fangs
- Failure and Desperation
- The Maelstrom--And Four Men
- Shadows Cast Before
- Meeting of Business Men Called for Friday Evening
- The New Black Hundred
- The Inner Circle
- The Plot Leaks Out
- To the Citizens of Centralia We Must Appeal
- "Let the Men in Uniform Do It"
- "Decent Labor"--Hands Off!
- "I Hope to Jesus Nothing Happens"
- The Scorpion's Sting
- "Let's go! At 'em, boys!"
- "I Had No Business Being There"
- Through the Hall Window
- Wesley Everest
- Dale Hubbard
- "Let's Finish the Job!"
- "Here Is Your Man"
- The Night of Horrors
- The Human Fiend
- Lynching--An American Institution
- "As Comical as a Corner"
- The Man-Hunt
- Hypocrisy and Terror
- "Patriotic" Union Smashing
- Vanderveer's Opening Speech
- A Labor Movement on Trial
- To Kill an Ideal...
- The Two Raids
- Patience No Longer a Virtue
- Vanderveer's Closing Argument
- Why Were the Shots Fired?
- "Fearful of the Truth"
- Why Were Ropes Carried?
- The Lumber Trust Wins the Jury
- But Labor Says, "Not Guilty!"
- Labor's Verdict
- Wesley Everest
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