Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-23 | Page 5 | Betters Tell How I. W. W. Dodged Conscription

18 Hies ETTERS TELL HO HOI l I. I I W. W W. W DODGED I CONSCRIPTION Bl Q U Shows Leaders rT tt Hid and Changed Chan Names After Registering l lJ J lat ar By fly Associated Press 1 CHICAGO May Ia 22 Scores of letters letter p ni- ni j aJen from the flies files s of cl eight ht of or th the 11 W. W officials on trial before Federal t st c Landis were toda today Into ino i 10 to substantiate the charges reS o or of or r be e jo that members of the or- or j conspired to prevent the suc- suc ful ul enforcement of the draft law iio contents of ot man many of the letters Inic in- in ic led that although the defendants I u 4 raft Nfl ago tallied and wrote against st con- con thc they registered last hUlt June to Ic 1 Told jold old arrest but planned to disappear dl orri or orIde ri Ide dc later to escape being drafted 11 Joseph Jos ph Ray flay Corder order and other defend defend- 15 ints ts It II appears changed their names nanie I a id nd fled In disguises to lo distant parts 01 ot bt bi ie Le e country after the they the had bad registered order to escape arm army service ts I Counsel oUn el for the tire defendants vigorously a d ns to the admission of many oCr of oC rj r ese letters but Judge Landis permit permit- d them to go 10 In as evidence for the that 0 f Corder admitted he changed his Iris name namo ca at id id wore a to avoid the thc dratt rt r he nad iad re registered in several sc lets leth let- let lilt h rs s written n to his sister re Letters taken from the flies flics of oC Alexnder Alex- Alex adt Cournos another defendant who I k Was as employed In the United State t eather bureau office at tt Huron S. S D. D Ji l hen arrested showed he lie had registered 1 tr ut it had been Leen active In advising ad his 1 others and others how to avoid old being In ned Iii I l 1 am wearing a United States Slates fla flag on of oft off ther theer the tho tn 0 iv v coat to keep stool er r nt he wrote In one letter In a letI let- let r I sent to the editor of the I. I W. W W W. t Solidarity he lie l ad advised cd the or- or I to lo issue a pamphlet against n and described methods s by byr rr eh members might eSC escape war dut duty r iz e ur urged ed that I W. W W. W concentrate their forts forth fort by seeking employment in exempt I such as mining ammunition a agriculture lumber shipbuilder II I. I 7 er g and transportation tr lines B By gaining t q of these industries he said tho the P embers would be aLl able to practice e c sabo- sabo 11 50 go rind and train gain control of oC the Important Jr I in industries of the country