The following passage is taken verbatim from the University of Washington's IWW History Project, which has produced a database of "Arrests, Prosecutions, Beatings, and other Violence 1906-1920" from the history of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW):

On this day in 1912, Korean IWW organizer B Duck Sue was beaten severely with heavy whips for organizing fifty-two plantation laborers. He was forced out of the county, but the workers' wages were increased from twenty dollars a month to twenty four dollars a month.