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Show 1 OO WILL HANDLE THE 'AGITATORS. Swift and drastic action, says a Washington dispatch, to check tho I. W. W. movement against Industries, is to be taken by the department of justice. Strike leaders of the gangs operating operat-ing In the west are to be prosecuted on charges of conspiracy or under tho espionage act. This declaration is in answer to tho report yesterday that tho I. W. W. would call a general strike in a number of western states, which is rogarded by officials as being be-ing a political and not a labor movement. move-ment. District attorneys have been instructed- to watch the situation with undivided attention ann prosecuto promptly where justified. There has been a general fooling in the w.est that the federal authorities wore not acting with sufficient vigor in tho handling of the conspirators who are doing all In their power to retard re-tard military preparedness, but' this latest Washington information indicates indi-cates that at last the wheels of Justice Jus-tice are moving. No half-way measure should bo adopted. The agitators should bo suppressed sup-pressed with the same firmness that would be employed In putting an end to open treason or an enemy uprising within tho country. nn i |