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Show M81E MEN ARE 1101 JAIL Twenty-four Alleged I. W. W. Members Arrested and Made Military Prisoners. o T"i " t & t tti nr. i ft . on rrvn oi-uiVAiMii, va.sn., Aug. ou. Lweu-ty-four more alleged Industrial Workers Work-ers of the World wero held in tho county Jail hero today as military prisoners. pris-oners. They wero arrested last night when they arrived from Troy, Mont,, on a Great Northern train. Tho men, with threo, others who later lat-er wero released, wero held at tho city Jail until Major Clement Wllkins, in command of the Idaho national guardsmen hero arrived and took thorn Into custody. Mnjor Wilkins declined to make a statement other than' that the men would be held as military prisoners. pris-oners. James Rowan, district secretary of the I. W. W and oleven other alleged members of the organization, arrested hero August 19, tho. day beforo a gen-oral gen-oral strike of construction and agriculture agricul-ture workers in tho northwest called by Rowan, was to becomo effective, are still held here as military prisoners. |