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Show GOVERNMENT I. W. W. CASE NEARLY OVER Presentation of Federal Evidence Expected Ex-pected to End Thursday; More Sabotage Testimony Given. CHICAGO, June 18. The government govern-ment expects to complete its presentation presenta-tion of evidence in the seditious conspiracy con-spiracy trial of I. W. W. members by Ihursday afternoon, it was said today by the prosecutors. Counsel for the 110 defendants then will call thoir witnesses. wit-nesses. More testimony of sabotage was told today by government witnesses. William Wil-liam Maynard, head sawyer for the Ilo-quiam Ilo-quiam (Wash.) Sash & Door company, told of four accidents to saws, the result re-sult of spikes being driven into spruce limber being used in airplane construction. construc-tion. He said only spruce were so treated. The spruce was bought of Schaeffer Brothers,, at- whose logging camps I. V. W. members went on Btrike last summer. Albert Schaeffer of Schaeffer Brothers, Broth-ers, testified that the strike was called without notice and interrupted the handling of spruce for (government contracts. con-tracts. His brother, 'John Schaeffer. testified that more saws were ruined, or damaged last summer than ever before be-fore in a similar period. J. P. Doran of Tacoma, Wash., a defendant, de-fendant, in a speech once urged 1. W. W.s to "slow down their work and not to make money for the boss," and keep it up until " the bosses quit, beaten, according to Garfield Davis, chief of police of Port Angels, Wash. |