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Show CHARGE I. W. W. CAUSE OF FIRES SACRAMENTO, CaL.Dec. 12. That some of the forty-six defendants in the trial of members of the Industrial Workers Work-ers of the World were instrumental in the setting of fires which caused great losses in California communities in recent years will be shown by evidence the government gov-ernment intends to introduce, Robert Duncan, special United States attorney, said today in the opening statement for the prosecution. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to hamper the government's war activities by intimidation, intimida-tion, strikes and other means. Thirteen of them are charged with the setting of fires. "We will show this organization levied on the agricultural interests of California penalties in excess of JS,00li,0wi," Duncan continued, "and that in the case of Ford and Suhr (principal- defendants in the Wheatland hop field riots in California ! several years ago), members of the organization, or-ganization, ih a campaign of intimidation intimida-tion planned to destroy property in this state at the rate of ?o00,000 a week." Mr. Duncan characterized the government's govern-ment's case as "an assault upon tho entire en-tire organization" of the 1. W. W. |