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This paper examiens the labor conflict known as the Everett Massacre, which occurred in Everett, Washington, on November 5, 1916. The much-celebrated confrontation between members of the Industrial Workers of the World and local law officials and citizen groups came to symbolize the sharp class divisions that shaped the lumber industry in the latter years of the 19th century in the Northwest. The paper utilizes event structure analysis as a means to identify the causal structure of this conflict, interpreting this structure in the context of broader national changes in both the consolidation of capital and the organization of labor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]