Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-01 | Page 3 | 100 I. W. W.'S will go to Trial Today

i 100 1. W. W.'S WILL GO 10 TRIAL TODAY Government's Charges Include In-clude Sabotage, Intrigue and Conspiracy. CHICAGO, March 31. More Uran 100 mtustrial Workers of the World will ko on trial tomorrow before Federal Judge I.andls, charged with conspiracy to disrupt dis-rupt the government's war programme. One hundred and sixty-five men and one woman were named in the true bill returned by the September grand jury, but forty escaped capture. Cases against ten have been dismissed, and three, including in-cluding the woman, Elizabeth. Gurley Flynn of New York, have been granted separate trials. The government's charges against the defendants include allegallons of sabotage, sa-botage, including the slowing down of production and the wanton spoilage of I material, propaganda for strikes to delay the output of war munitions and covert intrigue against military service. The trial, upon the outcome of which is declared to hang the fhte of the syndicalist movement in the United Stays, may last for six months. -yrtie I. W. W. will be represented at the 'y rial by George F. Vanderveer of Seattle, ' who has won several important cases for J the organization; Otto Chrlstensen of Chi-I Chi-I cage and Miss Catherine Lowe, a mem ber of the Kansas City bar. The government will be represented by Assistant Attorney General William C Fitts of Washington. D. C. ; District Attorney At-torney Charles F. Clyne, Frank K. Nebe-ker Nebe-ker of Salt Lake and Claude R. Porter of Des Moines, special assistants to Attorney At-torney General Gregory.