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Show n THEIR IN TO IGNORE THE DRAFT LI Witnesses Tell of Anti-war Speeches Delivered by the I. W. W. Officials in California Cali-fornia and Arizona. RECRUITING OF MEN RIDICULED Seditious Posters Found in Headquarters at Fresno When Raided by Agents of Government. CHICAGO, June 5 Witnesses who heard I. W. W. officials, on trial for violating the espionage act before Federal Fed-eral Judge Landis, deliver anti-war spooclief) in California and Arizona last summer, testified today and repeated many of the alleged disloyal utterances to the jury. The defendants accused of having made seditious utterances in public addresses ad-dresses were Fete McAvoy, Herbert Me-Cutcheon, Me-Cutcheon, J. K. Baskett and i'rancis P. Sullivan. The witness said the speakers advised their hearers to ignore the draft law, and said the best way to bring the war to an end was to have all the workers in munitieus plants stop work. J. A. McCabe, John B. Kuster and W. W. Kenville told of a fiery address which Pete McAvoy delivered at Fresno, Fres-no, 'Cal., in August, 1917, at a peace mectintt held under the auspices of the peopled council, at which a minister presided. Heard Seditious Speeches. David Troctor, a special acnt of the department of justice, repeated seditious sedi-tious statements which he said had been made bv Herbert M.-Cutchcon, .1. K. Baskett' an. 1 others at Jerome, Ariz., Julv 4, 1917. A poster ridiculing the recruiting nt men for the United States army, which was found conspicuously di-plaved on the walls of the Industrial Workers of the World headquarters in Krcsno, Cal., when the rooms were raided by cjovern-mcnt cjovern-mcnt agents on September U'17. was introduced in evidence today at the trial of 11D leaders of the organisation before Federal Judcv Landis. The poster w as blent if ic. I bv Horace ThorwaUlson, sheriff of Fresno county, California. The witnesses also identified identi-fied a tin cup filled with coper na.ls which were found in the I. W. V. headquarters when povernmcut agents raided the premises. The nails were similar to those use.l bv the I. W. W. pah-cats to destroy f ruit trees and vines. In the raid last September, Glenn Huberts, .lames Klliott and Charles Me. Whirt, defendants in the present trial, were taken in custody. Tells of Fires. Sheriff ThorwaUlson tol.l of the destruction de-struction bv fire of the bit: Johnson fruit orchard near Fresno, which was charged to the I. W. S, who had previously pre-viously quarreled with the proprietor over a question of waio-s. Scores of other incendiary tires occurred in Fresno and the vicinity, nn.l the I. . V. were held responsible, the witness said! , . A. J. Shannon, deputy 1 lilted States marshal, and Gcnrce Hudson, uncut of the department of .jii-ticc, who a-sistcd in raiding the I. W. W. licadquni tcM in Fresno. Cal., last September, testified to finding a cup of copper nails, a bottle bot-tle of emcrv dust, scraps of metal nnd thousands of stickers. The day utter the raid every door in the Fresno led ernl liuildina'was plastered with the 1. W. W. ntickcrs. |