Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-24 | Page 16 | Arrested on Charge of I. W. W. Plotting

ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF I, W.lPL0nii Max Benson Held in Connection Con-nection With Recent Handbill Distribution. On the -charge that he is one of the -conspii"ators connected with the recent publication and circulation of -a seditious handbill, calling upon wage worked generally gen-erally to strike In prote3t...against the cbnviction of William D. Haywood and Thomas F. Mooney, ilax Benson, an enemy en-emy alien and for a 16ng time an I. W. W. agitator, was arrested yesterday by federal officers. He will be arraigned this morning, before United States Commissioner Com-missioner H.. V. Van Pelt Benson was arrested at f. W. W. headquarters head-quarters on West Third South street, in the Radical' Book store. He Is charged jointly in the conspiracy with Joe Hosers, secretary of the local I. W. W. organisation, organisa-tion, and George Zennikos, the Greek printer who printed the handbills in both the English and Greek languages. The handbills were freely distributed on the west side, among railroad employees, and among the miners at Bingham. It is said that the came handbill was distributed dis-tributed extensively in other sections of the country. Benson lias been an active leader of the I. W. AY. In Utah for some time and he has been under surveillance by federal fed-eral officers for the past two or three months because of his expressed sympathy sym-pathy for Germany in the war. While Benson may be interned as a dangerous enemy alien, lie will first be used in the prosecution of Rogers and Zennikos on the conspiracy charge.