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Show U1LK Hi !ii PLUS IS OPP! MP UtbLHiiLiJ Purposes of Organization Organiza-tion of "Workers" Composed of 200,000 Members Described in Indictments by Grand Jury Made Public in Chicago. , MORE ARRESTS OF HUNTED MEN MADE Documentary Evidence Relates to Activity of Leaders to Foment Trouble in Defiance of Laws and to Harass Government in War Crisis. CHICAGO, Get. 2. Two more nrrftwta of members of the Industrial Workers of the World, for whom the federal government govern-ment officials have been looking since their indictment a week ago, wore reported report-ed today. They were Grover 11. Perry, taken In Salt Lake City, and John Ahlecn, arrested in Minneapolis. Copies of t lie indict men Is returned by tho grand jury were made public today. They describo Ihe ot-unixjlion known us the I. W. W. as composed of 20,000 persons, per-sons, moat Ly In borers in tho induat rles necessary to the existence and welfare of the people of the United Stales transportation, trans-portation, mining, meat packing, canning, lumbering, farming, livestock, fruit, vegetable vege-table and cot (on raising. The Indictment h further define the members of the organisation aa dctlniim themselves hk the "workers" and t he "proletariat," and df scribing all other classes of sockty as "' a pil a llsl s, " "the capita liHth; class," "I he mast er class. " "tho ruling class," "exploiters of the workers," "bourgeoise." and "parasites." Will Continue Work. The October grand Jury sworn In today to-day will continue the Inquiry by the September Sep-tember grand jury Into ant I -war demonstrations, dem-onstrations, el I; ion; and treaHonable words and deeds, ami opposition to the selective army draft. All inquiries held over by the September Sep-tember grand jury, which returned JtJ'J indictments aqnhifd members of the Industrial In-dustrial Workrrs df t! ' World, are expected ex-pected to be taken up I13' I lie new grand jury. J lay wood and others nrt held liable for pnblicat ton In I be m-wspn per Solidarity last August of the fuluiwhin: The T. W. W. Is nmre than a. labor or-caniz.atlon. or-caniz.atlon. It is a revolutionary union. We are absolutely and irrevocably disa.t isfle.) wit 1 1 he present -svk-tcm of sra-iety. Wn consider It a useless use-less syslern und we mean tu do-8 do-8 troy it. Ked-card men are shrewd, determined, deter-mined, valorous and loyal to the causa they love. There would nol be soldiers sol-diers enough In the country to round them up for nrn Hl nor jails enyuh ti hold them. Deeply Rooted. The T. W. W. is so deeply rool e4 In America and the world thai It can afford to lake the i-l:; n (. ;i i, open war a whole ot better than ibt power: pow-er: thnt op.o-e II. Our Mlem of job aiiitation if-- HU-h thai no power n e!irlh can keep the union from Kprearl-Im.' Kprearl-Im.' Its Influent'. We have shown the world bow to 10 to jail In Inure n ninhci s, exasperal e the t ;ixpn vera and block the machinery of Insllc. The I. V.". W. I. fijHillnn f.,r himself. him-self. Heir-preservation. like the cop. pec 1 1 -1 1 h t , known no la vv. Anoflier isvue of trie paper, August LT read: The refusal of American wot kern to volunteer unr their d-temiinel f,p. pof-Jt ion to bnlim fir-;1 ft erl into t bn army demons I ra ' cjr-;ir!y thai thi war Is being recoyn.izi-fi by tbr; slave ejass as a chum- ol onus hatred. Oppose Conscription. Other Issues of the p.;j i-r read: It is nepolews to Fny the J. V. W. if unalterai-lv oppo-i-u to ' on 'Jri pt Ion. We ronHder Ice hombriMtb- and far-feP'hrr far-feP'hrr tnik about freedom and democracy de-mocracy simply aw so much Vomit. Tne only p1" ' we ha "e a nyl lilng to jtain or ti U nd is on Die job. A careful check of all the re:lt forei men is now l.ejnt; mad.- bv federal author-! author-! itl'.-s, who assert It will only be a matter of a Fboil time until all of the 1 ",t; Indict. In-dict. a men ;.ie under arrest. Offe;,i., j here attach firnif icanc to the, pren-ru- ! of the iitdi' tcri men in the cantonments. ' all of vbom arc snid to have Kone into j M-rvit e v.llbnnt c:,lmiriK e en ip t I'm. On j of lb. charKes made in the i nd ii-t nrent "the djveovej-v of rf-rlain efforts of tlie, I. W. W. lo create anions the resistred resis-tred men a feeling of db loyally and ln--ubordl na t Ion. " Some of the f.viden, e nsed by the fef. eral era nd Jury in ohla iniug true bid riveri out by the federa i a uf horlt ie rlK'i'.K thnt It v.-as contained principally In (Continued on Pago Pom.) , iDIGtiENTS TELL I. W. W.-.DEFUMCE (Continued from Page One.) lettei'3 and pamphlets, thousands of which were distributed over the country. A letter from James Rowan, sent from Seattle, Wash., under date of August 2 to William D. Haywood, says: AVe have the good will of the German Ger-man people here and we feel that they are in sympathy with our cause. We do not eall them Germans, however, lit refer to them the same as others, the Fellow Workers. We are going to carry our points if we have to stop every industry on the Pacific coast. We did not declare war and we have not consented to the workinpman's giving up his liberty and being drafted. Methods of Organization. The purpose of the organization, the grand jury indictment says, was to abolish abol-ish the capitalistic class and to gain for the "workers" control and ownership of; all property, "such abolition to be accomplished, ac-complished, not by political action or with any regard to right or wrong, but by the continued and persistent use and employment of unlawful and forcible means and methods, involving involv-ing threats, assaults. injuries, intimidations in-timidations and murders upon the persons per-sons and the injury and destruction of property of the other classes, the forcible resistance to the execution of all laws, and, finally, the forcible revolutionary overthrow of all existing governmental authority in the United States." The means of destroying property was described within I. W. W. circles, con- tmues the indictment, as "sabotage," i "direct action," "working on the job," "wearing the wooden shoes" and "slow- j ing-down tactics." It was planned to use , I such activities in all strikes, in "reckless ; and utter disregard of the rights of all 1 I persons not members, and especially the 1 'right of the L'nited stales to execute its laws." Would Hamper War. The plans were designed particularly to take advantage of the opportunity presented pre-sented by the desire and necessity for the l'nited States expeditiously and successfully success-fully to carry on its war and by the consequent con-sequent necessity for all laborers to pev-, pev-, form their tasks faithfully. ""The persons named in the indictments sought to achieve the purposes of the or-1 or-1 ganization," ii says, "through mterfer-i mterfer-i ence with the production and inanufae-I I ; ture of munitions, ships, fuel, subsistence supplies, clothing, shelter, equipment nec-: nec-: essary for the military and naval forces of the United States in carrying on the war, and has interfered with transportation transporta-tion and discouraged, obstructed and hindered the prosecution of the war by : requiring the members of the organization organiza-tion available for duty in military and naval forces to fail to register and to refuse re-fuse to submit to registration and draft and to incite others to so fail, notwithstanding notwith-standing the cowardice of such failure." Arrested in Boston. BOSTON, Oct. 2. James Phillips, alleged al-leged to be an organizer of the Industrial Workers of the World, wanted in Chicago Chi-cago on a charge of conspiring against the government in connection with the draft act, was arrested here today. Alleged Leaders Taken. CHESTER, Pa., Oct. 2. Two alleged I. W. W. leaders were arrested here today to-day on warrants charging them with murder in connection with the explosion at the Eddy st one ammunition plant on April 10, which cost 133 lives. The pris- ' oners are Nicholas Kleckner and Mitchell t Lagoda. |