This item was in the local paper here….there has been a renewed interest in local history now that a new, interactive museum is getting built. Perhaps NOW the REAL history of this area will be known. This is also an example of the mentality of minor league boomtown mobsters, also known as “good citizens”. The article is ostensibly about the Wobblies, but it is a widow into the psychology of brute force greed—localized—and the “good citizens” (sarcasm in context) who perpetuate it.

If the future of humanity---general, not military-industrial "humanity" rests on localization, then this is what needs to be looked out for.

http://theworldlink.com/news/local/history-citizens-deported-organizers/article_7edea4f0-d10d-11e1-ae59-0019bb2963f4.html

History: Citizens ‘deported’ organizers

 Wobbly organizer and decorated WWI veteran Wesley Everest took a place in labor history in 1919, when he was taken from jail and lynched after a battle between labor organizers and marchers in an Armistice Day parade in Centralia, Wash. Six years earlier, he made history in a smaller way in Marshfield.
Wesley Everest was born in 1890 at Newberg, Oregon. His grandfather, David Everest, was an original settler and held the original 1850 donation claim there. His father died when he was young, his mother was killed in a buggy wreck when he was fourteen. He lived three years with relatives who owned the Westfall dairy near Portland, then at seventeen went to work in a logging camp where pay was $1.84 per day for 10 hours. That was in 1907, a time when the newly formed Industrial Workers of the World were gathering members in the logging camps along the Columbia River and the railroad lines in Southwestern Washington. He became a member of Portland I.W.W. Local 92.
By the end of 1912 Wesley Everest was working as an organizer for the I.W.W., probably first out of Eugene Local 88 and then from the newly established local at Marshfield. The railroad line from Eugene to Coos Bay was under construction and on December 29, 1912, thirty-five men working for a subcontractor near Gardiner went on strike, aided by I.W.W. organizers. Their grievances seemed just, according to the article in the Coos Bay Harbor January 2, 1913. The headline read, “35 Men Refuse to Work in Deep Mud. Strike for Less Hours and More Pay. Men Report that Copenhagen Bros. Feed Men Poorly, Charge for Hospital, Work in Mud.” The demands were for $3.00 for a nine-hour day, better food and better bunkhouses, and better conditions around the camp. That article in the Coos Bay Harbor was the first and last time that the I.W.W. was given fair coverage in the local press.
The June 26, 1913 Coos Bay Times reported that “Marshfield Deports Three Members of I.W.W. Order. Business Men of That City Form Committee and Escort Leaders of Order to Dock and Ship Them on Bonita to Jarvis Landing.” The men deported were the union secretary, W.J. Edgworth, 23-year-old Wesley Everest, and Fred Roberts, an innocent I.W.W. bystander who voiced protest over the mob action.
The businessmen of Marshfield, like the businessmen of Centralia, Washington, of Butte, Montana, and of Salt Lake City, were contemptuous of due process of law when it came to the I.W.W. Deportation, kidnaping, torture, mutilation, lynching — all were within the scope of what they thought just.
After the boat had dumped the three men off at the sand dunes of Jarvis Landing (on the North Spit), they were made to “salute the flag,” according to the newspaper report, but other sources say that they were made to kiss the flag.
In either case, the event radicalized Wesley Everest, who in 1917 was drafted into the Army and after his discharge went back to organizing for the I.W.W. until his horrible lynching at Centralia in November, 1919 (and immortalized near the end of John Dos Passos’ 1932 novel, “Nineteen Nineteen”).
There were four names on the presidential ballot for the 1912 election. In Coos County, Democrat Woodrow Wilson came in first with 30.8 percent of the vote. Socialist Eugene V. Debs came in second with 22.7 percent. The Socialist and Progressive parties together garnered a full 53 percent of the total.
The “businessmen” of Marshfield and of Bandon, like others of their class in other towns throughout the West, took the law into their own hands to stifle or eliminate the opposition.
In Bandon, for example, publisher of the Socialist paper Justice was Dr. Bailey K. Leach, a chiropractor. He wrote what Jesse Allen Luse, editor of the Marshfield Sun, called a “caustic” piece concerning the expulsion of the three I.W.W. men from Marshfield. A meeting of the Bandon Commercial Club protested what other newspapers called Dr. Leach’s “vile” attacks on the citizens of Marshfield. He was also accused of insulting the American flag and being an I.W.W. He was hauled before the meeting by a committee of 10 men who escorted him from his home. He “denied insulting the flag, and said that he was not an I.W.W. He said the people did not understand the humor if it.” He was told, “The humor of it is that you will have to leave here before 2 o’clock tomorrow.” The next day he was escorted onto the riverboat Dora to Coquille, and by auto from there to Marshfield, where he was unceremoniously placed aboard the Alice H. and deposited on the North Spit for a long walk north. There was apparently no official action or investigation into the mob rule, and of the fact that Dr. Leach was essentially kidnapped and forced to leave his professional practice and his home with no protection from the law. And Dr. Leach was not even a member of the I.W.W. He was merely trying to call attention to the violation of the legal and civil rights of the I.W.W.s who were “deported.”
Lionel Youst’s book,  “Progressive Thoughts: Essays and Reviews” was published recently. In a series of essays, Youst reflects on liberal thought as expressed over several centuries, from 16th-century essayist Michel de Montaigne to 21st-century president Barack Obama. The chapters were originally published as essays in The Advocate, Coos County’s monthly progressive journal. Retired from a career in the U.S. Air Force, Youst is the author of six other books of local and regional history.  Selections of his works are available online at www.youst.com.