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Show ATTEMPTED TO TIE UP UIH WORKERS Government Introduces Evidence Evi-dence to Prove Conspiracy Conspir-acy of I. W. W. CHICAGO. June 10. The government in trouuced evidence designed to show that the I. Y. had plotted to completely com-pletely tie up the lumber workers in the Oregon forests" where government contracts con-tracts we. being handled, at the trial of the members of that organization for violation of the espionage law today. J A letter tolling of the alleged plot, addressed ad-dressed to James Rowan, one. of tho de-fondants, de-fondants, and said to 1 e one of t lie strongest I. Y. W. leaders on the Pacific Pa-cific coast, from J. . Turner, an indicted member, read as follows; I "if the Oregon lumber workers had been out, 1 think the strike would have been over before now. Anyway, we are goin to try to get the Columbia river tied up, as the important government contracts con-tracts for timber have been placed there." This letter was introduced as evidence to show how members of the L Y. W. tried to hinder the government's war pro-gra pro-gra m . Henry A. Pearce, city editor of the Spokane Chronicle, told of attending I. : V". V, meetings. . |