Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-17 | Page 12 | Planned Strikes for Small Salary

PLANNED STIES FOR SILL SALARY Letters Showing Activity of L W. W. Agent Put in Evidence at Chicago. CHICAGO, May 16. From early in January to late in the summer of 1917, Albert Prashner, an organizer for the Industrial Workers of the World at a salary of $18 a week, laid plans for strikes in various industries from New York to Michigan, according to letters read by the prosecution today in the trial of 112 members of the organization organiza-tion for violation of the espionage act. Most of the correspondence which the government charges formed a part of a nation-wide conspiracy to hamper America's war nlans, was between Prashner and William D. Haywrood, general secretary-treasurer. Prashner kept Haywood advised of progress beinij made in the anthracite regions of Pennsylvania, and wrote from Michigan that strikes in automobile automo-bile and other factories in Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids easily could be agitated. Big supplies of strike and anti-war stickers, printed in three languages, were ordered for distribution in districts dis-tricts where laborers predominated. Peter Dailey, an organizer arrested, at Minneapolis, who was found in a state of coma under one of the defendant benches today, was examined by government gov-ernment physicians and pronounced physically able to stand trial. Defense De-fense counsel had said Dailey was mentally men-tally unbalanced and did not realize he was on trial.