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Show IB IN L 1 1 IS PROPOSED li SENATE BILLS Judiciary Committee Approves Ap-proves Legislation on Subject Sub-ject and Combines King and Walsh Measures. HEAVY PENALTIES ARE PRESCRIBED . Assistant Attorney General Denounces the Organization Organiza-tion in an Address at Jackson, Miss. WASHINGTON, May 2. Legislation aimed at the Industrial Workers of the World and similar organizations advocating advo-cating force and violence to bring about government, social and industrial changes, was approved today by the senate judiciary committee. The measure mea-sure comprising features of anti-I. W. W. bills, introduced by Senators King of Utah and Walsh of Montana, was ordered or-dered favorably reported. Such organizations under the bill agreed on, would be declared unlawful during the war, and acts done in their interest would be penalized by ten years' imprisonment and $5000 fine. Provisions of the bill include punishment punish-ment for holding office or membership in the proscribed organizations, dissemination dissemi-nation of propaganda and even the renting rent-ing of halls for their meetings. . W. W. DENOUNCED IN UNMEASURED TERMS BY LAWYER JACKSON, Miss., May 2. Organized violence of Industrial Workers of the World was described and denounced by William C. Fitts, assistant attorney general gen-eral of the United States, in an address here tonight before the Mississippi State Bar association. Mr. Pitts, who has had charge of the nation-wide campaign cam-paign against I. W. W. agitators and the prosecution of many leaders since the United States entered the war, declared de-clared the German government encourages encour-ages spreading of the doctrines of sabotage sab-otage in the United States, Russia and other allied countries. Civil processes, he said, are sufficient to catch the agitators, agi-tators, and martial law, as proposed by bills in congress, is entirely unnecessary. unneces-sary. The L W. W. are related by their theories to International Beds, Bolshe-viki Bolshe-viki and other revolutionists, Baid Mr. Fitts, and all ' ' are making war, first on legitimate, labor organizations and on the very social fabric which protects pro-tects them ami us." Mr. Fitts said he had extensive evidence evi-dence that the I. W. W. "have prevented pre-vented the raising of crops by practicing practic-ing sabotage in the planting, sowing and reaping. They have put phosphorus balls in shocks of wheat, in bales of hay and in barns." he said. "They have destroyed harvesting machinery and placed dynamite in the sheafs. They have destroyed mature fruit trees by driving copper nails into them below the surface of the ground. Fired the Forests. "They have destroyed mining machinery, ma-chinery, especially in the copper mines and in the mines where the minerals essential es-sential to the conduct of the war are mined or produced. Tliey have fired the forests, particularly tho forests of spruce, that being the wood essential for making airplanes. They have destroyed de-stroyed saws is the sawmills by driving pieces of steel or iron in the logs so as to break tho band saws and unnerve the sawyers. They saw lumber shorter than standard leugths. Tho I. W. W. surrounded courthouses and packed courtrooms for tho purpose, of putting over their plans. They have taken possession pos-session of railroad trains and assaulted and murdered the train crews. They missend freight, misplace signal lights and put emery dust or sand in journal boxes ou railroad cars. "Members of the organization place foreign substances in food in hotels and restaurants, break crockery, dip tabic forks in crude oil, uso stink pots in dining din-ing rooms and bedbugs iu beds. They plant trees upside down, shock grain with the heads down, hoe up potato vines instead of weeds, bruise apples and other fruit in packing. They remove re-move units from carefully adjusted machinery, ma-chinery, misplace and omit parts ol (Continued on Pago Two.) WAR DNTHEi.W.W. IS PROPOSED IN SENATE (Continued from Page One.) 'copy' in printing offices, and put foreign for-eign substances in canned goods. Decent Men Ineligible, ' ' No man can be an I. W. W. who possesses as much as $50 in money or property, or who has permanent employment, employ-ment, or who becomes a soldier or a sailor of any country. ' ' They view with alarm the preparation prepara-tion of the country to resist its foreign for-eign enemies, because they not only would gladly witness the triumph of those enemies, but also because they do not want the country to be prepared to meet and stamp out the anarchy which they intend to foment from within. All their communications begin with the words, 'Dear Comrade,' and end with the words, 'Yours for the Revolution. ' While our precious boys are freely pouring pour-ing their youth on the battlefields of France, tho administration is bringing to bear, and bravely, every orderly process proc-ess of the law for the suppression of this propaganda and the eradication of this poison. If the present statutes, intended for fairly decent people cau-not cau-not reach these devils, then congress which is neither backward nor pussy-' footed, will pass laws which will catch them. ' ' |