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Show I. W, W. CLAIM LOMOTIMENI Anti-Draft Resolution the Act of Isolated Group, Not Whole Body. CHICAGO, July 29 Adoption of anti-draft resolutions several months ago by the I. W. TV. local at Crossby, Minn., was the act of an isolated group, according to evidence introduced intro-duced today by the defenso in the I. W. W. conspiracy trial. Leo L. Auki, editor of the Finnish ' I. W. TV. paper at Dulth, testified that "free criticism" was the general policy pol-icy of his publication. When he advised ad-vised local members to the 1. TV. TV. to obey the law and register in accordance ac-cordance with the selective service act, complaints began to pour in from the subscribers and directors, he said. Becauso of unjust compulsory military mili-tary service In Finland all the Fiuns of the Mesaba range region were violently vio-lently opposed to conscription. Attorneys for tho defense maintained main-tained that the evidenco went to prove that the occasional outbreaks against the war by the I. TV. TV. members were always local in nature and never part of a nation-wide conspiracy to hamper the government. |