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Show HANDBILLS OFI.W.W. URGE mm 1151 Agents of Organization Distribute Papers Over West Side. The corning of dawn yesterday morning developed the fact that during the night mysterious agents of the Internationa! Workers of the World had distributed thousands , of anonymous handbills throughout the west side, calling1 upon wage workers to prove their "solidarity" and come to the rescue of their ' fellow workmen," Thomas Mooncy and others, waiting disposition of the law in various jails of the country. The handbills are signed "The Committee Com-mittee of Workers." They reflect illiteracy illiter-acy on the part of the composers, were undoubtedly hastily printed, and attempt to fix the responsibility for the position of Mooney, now waiting execution in California Cali-fornia in connection with the San Francisco Fran-cisco preparedness parade bomb outrage in 1916, on organized labor. The handbills hand-bills bear all of the earmarks of having originated among the I. W. W. leaders and agitators, and there is nothing in the construction or contents to connect the propaganda with organized labor. It is the opinion of the police and of the federal officials who have the matter under Investigation, that the making1 and distribution of the handbills was the work of local agents of the I. W. W. who thus far have succeeded in escaping the vigilance of the authorities. A large number of the same handbills was distributed among the mines at Hingham also during the night. A careful care-ful watch is being kept on all suspicious characters. |