I.W.W. LEADER LYNCHED.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 28 August 1917, Page 8

I.W.W. LEADER LYNCHED.

BT TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. AUCKLAND, Aug. 27. A general dislocation on the Van-, eouver water front was recently caused by a strike of wharf laborers. The trouble began on July 30th. After an anxious week, in which there were instances of violence being used by the strikers, the men went back to work on August 5, and that evening the activity of the port was fully resumed. A leading officer of the 1.W.W., Frank Little, was taken from his lodginghoues at 3.30 a.m. by masked men and hanged to a railroad trestle on the outskirts of the city. After searching the lodginghouse, the six men found Little and caia-ied him into a waiting automobile. His body was discovered by the police at 8 o'clock. A card on the body bore the figures, "3-7-77," an old sign of the Vigilantes in Montana. Montana messages indicate that the lynching was due to the wrath of the citizens at I.W.W. operations in connection with the strike.