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Show WEES HDD HO RECITALS OF !. tl PLOTS Tales of Antigovernment Activities and Plans Related Re-lated in Correspondence Produced in Evidence. SPEECHES AGAINST DRAFT ARE READ Texan Says Workers Were Told War Would End When Socialists Clasped Hands Over Trenches. 'rTICAGO, May 29. The metal mine phase of the government's case against 112 Industrial Workers of the World, accused ac-cused of conspiring to cause a rebellion while the nation was at war, virtually was completed tonight and evidence bearing bear-ing on far west and northwest disorders will be taken up, probably tomorrow. Tales of lawlessness in the southwest last year at the time the nation was striving to speed up its military operations opera-tions were related In correspondence seized from the files of leaders and substantiated sub-stantiated by government witnesses brought from the Arizona mining region. "The government says the draft Is going go-ing into effect September 1," Grover H. Perry, one of the workers in the southwest, south-west, informed the membership in an official of-ficial bulletin. "But so far as the I. W. W. miners are concerned, it is not going into effect at all." This and numerous other declarations s against the draft, against Liberty loan bonds and against the government were read into the records by Claude R. Porter, Por-ter, special assistant attorney general. "America needs 750,000 men in this country right now to put down rebellion," Stanley J. Clark, a defendant, asserted in an impassioned anti-war speech at a meeting in Wichita, Falls Texas, August 21. Clark also drew a lurid picture of the I. W. W. taking over the government, according to testimony. When War Will End. For this forthcoming event, the government gov-ernment would be doing the L W. W. no harm by taking over railroads and other industries, he pointed out, adding that it would save the organization many details. de-tails. "When the Socialists clasp hands across 1 he trenches, then and then only will ihe great war come to an end," Clark was luoted by government witnesses as having hav-ing informed Texas crowds at street meetings. "The Socialists then will have to come into power throughout the world." Clark warned the public against the pur-k pur-k chase of Liberty loan bonds, declaring ihe I. W. W.. after the war, would repu-gUate repu-gUate all such debts. Witnesses told of the reign of terror in the Arizona mining districts. Involving the deportations of hundreds of I. W. W. tfrom Bisbee, and testified concerning conditions leading up to, the strike of mine workers. Resolutions adopted by the Miami, Ariz., branch were read into the records by Chief Prosecutor Frank K. Nebeker. They called upon the mine owners to establish a six-hour day, thirty minutes of which was to be allowed for lunch, discharge armed guards, permit affiliation with the I. W. W. by all workers, and fix a minimum mini-mum wage scale of $6 per day. Power of I. W. W. William Pope, of the department of justice, jus-tice, and R. Riddle, postmaster at Elec-tra, Elec-tra, Texas, testified concerning the activities activi-ties of Clark, who finally informed the governor of Arizona that, unless miners were granted their demands, the. I. W. W. would display its power. "Clark said he told the governor that unless concessions were granted, there would not be. a bushel of grain grown in the northwest this year," Pope testified. The organization pointed to its power with statements that immediately after the Arizona strikes copper production was decreased 500,000 pounds a day. |