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Show I SAN DIEGO CITIZENS PLAN BIG MEETING Thousands Will Gather at . Courthouse When Alleged Vigilante Is Tried. SAY HOMES IN DANGER! Demonstration Is Outcome of Summons Issued for J. -M. . Porter for' Contempt, . ' SAN DIEGO. Cal.. May 20. Plans for a pieantlc demonstration of feeling against the Industrial. "Workers of ..the World and any person connected with them were made quietly by many citizens of San Dlco today, "Be at tho courthouse at 3 o'clock -Wednesday moraine and wear an American HHj fiat?." was. tho word quietly -passed about HMI from man to man, and It was said that BH a crowd of several thousand probably IHQ would be the result. HI Purpose of Meeting. PMj The time chosen was that set today by Kg Judge Guy of (ho supreme court for J. HHZj M. Porter, realty opernlor and alleged IflH vigilante leader, to appear to show BHtj cause why he should not he adjudged Bj guilty of contempt on the 'charge made WM hy Attorney Fred H. Moore, that Porter DBS had interfered with his defense of a cll- H ent Implicated In I. W. W. troubles. BHJ Porter agreed to go to cpurt without the Hjj Issuance of a citation. HMf Porter himself, while denying that he HMf had been guilty of contempt In any way. El a'dmlttcd that. he had talked to Moore Mfll about defending Attorney E. E. Kirk, ar- IHM rented on - the charge of having violated IUH " stroct-speaklng onllnance and whose IKS trial on a chargo of perjury In connec- H tlon with alleged false registration be-M be-M gan In the superior court; today. mm Porter's. Story HSj "I told Moore," Porter stated, "that IHS he ought to get a hunch to himself from . MH the treatment given Dr. Ben Reltman, IHI manager- for Emma Goldman. T was care-j care-j ful not to commit contempt of court." Roltman" was taken from his hotel here recently, escoricd beyond the city limits flfl and tarred and ruhbed with sagebrush. HM "We are fighting for our homeB," con- hH tlnued Porter, "We don't caro about gHf Welnstock or Governor Johnson. Only troops can stop us." IHjj r The reference was t,o Colonel Harris WH Wolnstock, who was sent by the gover-iH gover-iH nor to Snn Diego to investigate condl-iH condl-iH lions there and who reported on them Saturday. |