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Show VENIREMEN ARE SIERNEY QUERIED Xf.fl CI to Pass for I. W. W. Trial. DEFENDANTS PRESENT E Have Abandoned Boisterous Spirit and Seem Downcast. Down-cast. CHICAGO, April 3 Questioning of L prospective Jurors In the trial of 112 Ej leaders of Ihe Industrial Workers of K the World, charged with conspiracy Ig to block America's war plan--, qot un-der un-der w:iy In federal court today after 88 of 200 veniremen summoned in the I i ' iliree days had been eu-iI. S'ich questions as "do fou rend t Herman?" and "do you belong to any Herman society or subscribe to any E German publications'1" were put to the t first 12 men examined by District At- E torney Cllno. "This Is a criminal case a case of jfl America on one side and William D. 11, Haywood, et al. on the other," he said a In explaining the charges against tho L defendants under the espionage net. Tho prisoners then stood before the veniremen one by one for Identlflca- W tlon, after which questions were asked as to sympathies Tor the ac- I B j cused. Vjb It. was predicted that the jury 1 ! would be completed and the most un- Wm usual criminal case In the nation's his- be tinder way in two days Th 9L ; defense Is allowed ten peremptory l l challenges and the prosecution six. M All Defendants Present. All defendants were present today. 1 II They had abandoned their boisterous spirit and were downcast, some of 1 I the leaders said, becauso of delays caused by Illness the first two days ; of the trial. The indisposed prisoners prison-ers were brought into court. Tho prisoners were supplied with copies of the "Defense News Bolle-tln," Bolle-tln," an Organization publication j Which In gloaming streamers an- I I nounced "the trial of our social sys- I I tem Is on," adding that defense !( '.vi re badly needed. Copies or ijn the . "Liberator," a publication by Max I Eastman, were also brought into court I by the prisoners. f" Prisoners Want Tobacco. Kcports were current that the a growing unrest among tho prisoners In court was due to the fact that they were not permitted to chew tobacco. ; 1111 I-rfiter .ludtro Landlfl turned to the ' 8 clerk and .lid i "I want sixty metal cuspidors In j this cOUfl room in iv.o hours. These j H men have a right to chew tobacco and must not be deprived of jjf comfort " |