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Show GOVERNOR JOHNSON 0ISREGI1REJ1IS Convicted Industrial Workers Work-ers of World Will Serve Sentences, He Says. SARAMKNTO, Cal., Sept. 11. Governor Gov-ernor Hiram W. Johnson announced in a formal statement hero today that In dustrial Workers of the World and other oth-er persons had threatened wholesale devastation of the industries of California, Cali-fornia, ''and even worse, unless Richard Rich-ard Ford and Hermann Htthr, two members mem-bers of the organization serving life sentences for murder, were pardoned by a certain date, which has passed. Admitting that a survey of the entire case might justify a mitigation of the sentence imposed, the governor declares: de-clares: "So long as, in behalf of these men, the threats of injury and sabotage con tin ue, so long BJ the preachment exists ex-ists in their behalf in the state of Cal iforniu, bo long us incendiarimn is attempted, at-tempted, 1 will neither linten to appeals for executive clemency in behalf ot Ford and Suhr nor in anv fashion consider con-sider the shortening of fheir terms of imprisonment. ' ' The statement came upon the heels of reports from the Sacramento, San Joa- quin and Sonoma valleys in California and from the hop fields of Oregon of widespread incendiarism and other mis chief , indicating, accord ing to the authorities, au-thorities, the existence or formulated plane. Ford ami Suhr were convicted of second sec-ond degree murder for the killing of Robert X Manwell, district Attorney of Y bbfl county. 'al.. in August t 101 .3. in the course of rioting at hopf iplds near Wheatland, which started over demands for more ad eq unto snnltary conditions better pav and altered conditions of work. When an automobile load of peace officers approached the fields. Ford urged the crowd not. to permit him to he t.'ikcn and a constable nnd the sheriff were bent en insensible and the dipt rict attorney, ' ' whose only remark had been of a pneifie character. ' ' was shot dead. The sheriff died n year or so later, never having recovered, it whs stated, from his heAting. Two hop-pickers hop-pickers were killed nnd two were wounded. "This is not a case,1' the governor affirms. ' 'when1 the lender of n strike is held responsible Timinallv for the act of violence of nn individual striker, done without the knowledge or connivance conniv-ance of the lender. Here, Ford requested request-ed that the very f hinr which snbse onentl' occurred should he done " |