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# The Centralia Tragedy Left a Legacy Still Debated
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/episode/the-centralia-tragedy-left-a-legacy-still-debated-wmavhp/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:10:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:08:58.000Z
- Description: In 1919, a violent clash between Wobblies and the American Legion left scars in the NW.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, Season 3, Episode 2, #ZZZ_Episode_ef5d6abc-4223-431a-abda-ea7b8eec0ff8, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.16

In 1919, during an Armistice Day parade, a gun battle between Wobblies (IWW) and the American Legion left five men dead, and scars in the Northwest psyche. It was a violent clash between two ideologies -- the anti Bolshevik American Legion and the radical socialists known as the Industrial Workers of the World.