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Show SELECTING JURY I TO TRIM. W. W. Hundreds of Witnesses Summoned Sum-moned and Tons of Literature Litera-ture Stored as Evidence. U3 FACING CHARGES Long Trial Forecast Six Weeks or Perhaps Six Months Required. CHICAGO. April 1. The work of se-Iprtinc se-Iprtinc a Jury in fry 113 members of the Industrial Workers of the World on chnrges of violating the spionago aCt was begun in the I'nited States district court today before Judge K. Iff. Landis. A special venire appeared br-fni-p A Judge Landis and attorneys for both fides predicted that at least a week 1 would be consumed in obtaining a Hundreds of witnesses have horn summoned ajid tons of literature seiz ed by the pnvprnmcnt during raids on headquarters of the 1 W. W. are stored stor-ed in the federal building ready to be used at the trial. After the United States entered the ar government acents worked several sev-eral months on evidence to obtain warrants for the arrest of leaders of the organization who. it was charged, had hindered the manufacture of war materials by starting strikes in factories, fac-tories, in the harvest fields and in the mines and had also interfered with the operation of the selective service act. Early in September raids were made by United States marshals on I. W. W. headquarters in various cities of the country and many members of the organization or-ganization arrested and much documentary docu-mentary evidence obtained. Haywood to Be Tried. Three weeks after the arrests, indictments in-dictments against 166 persons admitting admit-ting membership in the I. W. W were returned by the federal grand jury in Chicago. Forty have not been arrested, ten have been dismissed and separate trials have been granted to three of the accused, including Elizabeth Guer-oey Guer-oey Flynn of New York. Among those who went to trial today was William D. Haywood, general secretary-treasurer who was arrested in Chicago headquarters of the organization. 4 Counsel for tlio I. W. W. are George H W. Vandventer of Seattle; Otto Chris- tian of Chicago, and Miss Catherine 4 Low of Kansas City. The government was represented by Assistant Attorney-General William C. Pitts of Washington. D C . District Attorney Charles F. Cline, Frank K. Nebeker of Salt Lake City, and Claude R. Porter of Des Moines, special assistants of Attorney-General Gregory. All attorneys connected with the case agree that it cannot be finished in less than six weeks and several predict pre-dict that the end will not come for six months. |