Historical Marker
Shootout At Grabow
DeRidder, Beauregard County · Louisiana
What followed Grabow was a prosecution built to break a union. A grand jury under Judge Winston Overton had some sixty-five timber workers charged, on counts from inciting a riot to murder, and mill interests hired the Burns Detective Agency for evidence. Congressman Arsene Pujo was among the prosecutors, and the cases were tried at Lake Charles in the autumn of 1912. The union men went free, reportedly after evidence that company men had been drinking and fired first. The Brotherhood had limited success; its IWW successor, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, thrived from 1917 to 1924.
Where it stands
30.83383, -93.33213 · Directions
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