Walker C. Smith

Walker C. Smith was an American labor activist, editor, and author associated with the Industrial Workers of the World. He is best known for The Everett Massacre: A History of the Class Struggle in the Lumber Industry, a book about the 1916 conflict in Everett, Washington, where tensions between workers, employers, and local authorities turned deadly.

Sources available here point to Smith's close involvement with the labor movement in the Pacific Northwest, and to his lasting connection with IWW history. That background helps explain the force of his writing: rather than treating labor struggle as distant history, he wrote from inside the movement and focused on the people caught up in it.

Reliable biographical detail on his full life appears limited in the material I could confirm during this search, so it is safest to remember him mainly through his role as a labor writer and witness to early twentieth-century industrial conflict.