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Show I.W. W. GANG ARE IN JAIL Minot, S I Aug. 11. Eighty-one men today are In Jail as the result ol noting which has occurred here In the last 48 hours in connection with the attempts of Industrial Workers of the World to conduct street meetings here ard to organize farm hand6 Into In-to a union This afternoon the men are being arraigned before a magistrate. magis-trate. Minot, N D., Aug. 11 State troops maj le (ailed out today to preserve order If an attempt Is made by In dust rial W orkers of the World to continue con-tinue the street meetings which late last night resulted In the arrest of eights persona incensed over alleged al-leged insults to the American flag, citizens attacked Industrial Workers and ocenes of excitement followed. The police were unable to control the rioters and called on the sheriff and the fire department Arrests still were being made early today, although al-though the Jail was crowded to overflowing over-flowing A threatening mob surged about the jail, but as the morning wore on Its began to disperse. The trouble began Saturday night when Jack Law, a street speaker, and his followers were made targets of a volley of bad eggs Many of the disturbers, as well as speakers, were placed In jail. Although warned against holding street meetings at which speakers attempted at-tempted to encourage harvest hands to hold out for higher pay, the Indus-trial Indus-trial Workers resumed their activities lust night. It was reported that many citizen ere armed Dewey Dorman, Socialist Social-ist street commissioner, and Art Le-seur, Le-seur, fornjer Socialist president of the city commission, and prominent In -tnte polities, were among those jailed Industrial Workers early today to-day wired St. Paul and Minneapolis for more workers and a band of them is expected to arrive before night |