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Show mm use OF I, W. I OPENS n SIGH SACRAMENTO. Cal.. Dec. 10 Four prospective jurors had been selected temporarily from a list of seven examined ex-amined when the conspiracy trial of the Industrial Workers of the World opened today In the United States district dis-trict court. A demurrer to the indictment charging charg-ing the forty-seven defendants with a conspiracy to obstruct tho government's govern-ment's war program and a motion to grant a separate trial to three of the defendants are to bo decided by Judge P. H. Rudkin. These were presented 'by Harry M. McKee, attorney of Fres-no, Fres-no, Cal.. representing Theodora Pol-jlok, Pol-jlok, Basilo Saffores and A. L. Fox, ithe only three defendants, who have I employed counsel. The other defendants defen-dants were represented by a trial committee, com-mittee, which thus far had adhered to its plan of conducting a "silent defense." de-fense." oo |