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Show I f j IIIDliSTRIAL WORKERS " !; STARVE THEMSELVES r 5 j ( . Ij't j! I Will Neither Work. Xor lint f'if While Under Arrpsl in L , ! : . Spokane. . I .(!,- SPOKANE. Wash., Nov. (5. While I I ' i ' addressing :t laryo crowd on :i street 1 , '! corner horc today, Agnes Fair, who j J 1 uluimcil to 1)0 author and playwright. I 1 ' was arrested and charged with diflor- '; 1 dorly conduct a ono of tho day 's dovel- 1 ' " opinentK in the contest behvocn tho po- t lico and tho Industrial Workers of (ho ) World as to the hitter's right lo speak k . ' in rho street.?. ' ' . ' 1 Tho woman has been a conspicuous I ' lignro on tho streets of late, declares lUi I !j the police, mingling with t.hp members I o. tho organization with which tho de- ) ' partme.nt ia in conflict, t j Tho 130 men arrested during the past ii , i 1 week upon charges of speaking in tho " ' streets without permission from Mm au- 1 thoritics, and wlio wore sentenced lo ' ( thirty days each in jail, continued firm I,' v i toda'v in'fhoir resolve not to touch hot I U' food" and to do uo work on tho rock -. ' It , Pile. I , -j'l All woro offered hot breakfasts this 1l morning, but only ono was templed, ill "Give mo a pick and let mo go to f , t. work," said the ono exception. "1. did ; i not; come here to bo starved." All the si i others arc subsisting upon bread and , ij water. 1 , 1 1 - Last Desperate Resort. - , Crowded in thn uarrow cells of the ' , ' city jail, 130 hungry, ragged, unkempt., unshaven men pledgod themselves. today i, ' to tho last, desperate resort in then' - . t struggle with the police tho starvation 1 strike. Nearly eight v industrial Work- ers of (ho World, iiiosl of whom were ,! sentenced yesterday to thirt- days in I jail for having attempted to make j speeches on the srreots, wero offered -a J 3' good breakfast before being told to go J, (in tin; city f is rock nile. Thev refused j i tho food, dc.t'lariug they would take no 5 j .sustenance while fifty-three of their ( ' ' fellow members were being kept on J bread and water for having refused to 1 l ; work. Tim new men also declined to break rock. J , 1 When bread and water was offered (o t l n,c fifty -three men placed on that diet. ! ihev would not touch it, though in some. ' I cases it had been their entire bill of faro for fortv-eight hours, i . Tho police will continue to olfer it ; to thcin twice a day with the option j ,' ' of "square meals" if they will agree 41 to work while in jail. Ouo called for a I ! ' pick and breakfast this morning and . ,, was promptly supplied. Eleven orators of the 1, W. W. were ;' sirrested todaV for attempting to sponk 'S' ' ,)u the streets. One woman was jailed. i , J Habeas corpus proceedings may be bo- 'j gun by the societv to cet its members ' l! ofit of jail. This is the advice given .j ! 1)V Vincent St. John, .national chief I j counsel for the I. W. W.. who tele- ' '-U graplied from Chicago that, an "im- i mouse defense fund" was being raised, j (' (e advises: ' "('all governor's attention , to state of Colorado paying $100,000 damages y iij like actions." ,i i 5 |