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Law against anarchy thrown out Wobblies of the world, relax.
It's OK once again to be an anarchist in Washington.
Gov. Gary Locke on Wednesday signed Senate Bill 5671,
repealing an 80-year-old law that had been passed in reaction to the
home-bred Industrial Workers of the World, radical labor activists
better known as the Wobblies.
Under the law, it was illegal to advocate anarchy,
defined as "the doctrine that organized government should be
overthrown by force or violence."
It was also illegal for people to "assemble for the
purpose of advocating or teaching the doctrines of criminal
anarchy," or even to possess or display "emblems of seditious and
anarchistic groups."
Displaying the letter "A" surrounded by a circle, for
example, was a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
The law was passed in 1909 and updated in 1919. It never
mentioned the IWW, but the union movement was the clear target.
"People couldn't distinguish between a Communist and a
Wobblie," said Tacoma historian Ron Magden. "There was a great
fear in the general public -- especially in the West -- because they could
blow you up. The law made them feel safer."
It didn't help that the Wobblies were central to two of
the more notorious incidents in state history.
In 1916, a contingent of Wobblies was met at the dock in
Everett by a sheriff intent on keeping them from helping striking
shingle weavers. The Everett Massacre left seven dead and 50
wounded.
In 1919, IWW members and American Legionnaires faced off
in a gun battle now known as the Centralia Massacre. An IWW
member was later pulled from jail and lynched.
After the bill was approved, though, the Wobblies paid
little attention to it, and there were few prosecutions. Sen. Adam
Kline, D-Seattle, could find only four cases that reached the state
Supreme Court, the most recent in 1941.
But Kline said that even though the statute was an
unconstitutional violation of the right to free expression, it was
better to get rid of it -- because it might get used.
"The law goes after speech, the display of emblems,
parades," Kline said. "The right and the left have a right to do it."'
"Call me a paranoiac, but history is cyclical."
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