Hulet M. Wells
Hulet Martell Wells was a CanadianAmerican socialist and president of the Seattle Central Labor Council, part of the American Federation of Labor. During the first decade of the 20th Century Wells was a leading participant in the free speech movement in Washington, running as the candidate of the Socialist Party of Washington for mayor of Seattle in 1912. Following a prison term for opposition to World War I, Wells reemerged as a labor and political activist, eventually founding the Unemployed Citizens League of Seattle in 1931.
Hulet Martell Wells was born May 4, 1878 near the small town of La Conner, located about 60 miles north of Seattle in what was then the Washington Territory of the United States. Wells parents, Hiram and Alfreda Wells, hailed from Eastern Canada from which they emigrated in 1877, shortly after their marriage. The couple took advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862, establishing a land claim in rural Skagit County, Washington and constructing a cabin there, where their first son was soon born. Hulet was the oldest ofchildren.
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