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Show I TWO HOUR DAY I AIMJF I. W. W. Intended to Force Western Copper Mines to Pay $6.00 for 120 Minutes' Work. CHICAGO, Juno A two-hour ! fvork da'y with a minimum wage ot (6 8 day was the ultimate aim of the I W. W. in the western mining comers. This was disclosed today by govern -ment witnesses who testified at the trial of the I. W. W leaders before Federal Judce Landis. Francis L. Kirby. a ranger in the United States forestry service at Miami, Ariz, the first of several witnesses wit-nesses called to show that, the I. W I W. was responsible for the strikes in i the ropr'r minis of Arizona lasl year which for a time threatened to seriously seri-ously embarrass the country's preparations prep-arations for war, told of attending numerous nu-merous I. W. W. meetings in the district dis-trict prior to the- strike which began July 2. He said Orovrr H Peiry, one of the defendants, spoke at 'several mass meetings of mine workers at Miami Working for Two-Hour Day. He said the I TV. W. leaders de- j manded a six-hour day and $6 a day 1 pay and when they got that they would ask for a four -hour day with the same wages, said the witness Perry then said the 1. W. W. would never stop until they got a two bour 'lay with a wage of $6. Perry also said the min-19 min-19 I era snould receive enough wages p 1 buy ham and eges before being asked i to buy Libert bonds. i' Frank H. Little, who later was m, . I lynched at Butte. Mont., also spoke at BL I' this meeting and related a conversation conversa-tion he had with Governor Campbell of Arizona in which the I. W W. lead-Hi! lead-Hi! t er said the organization would cad a I IV fl general strike and tie up every war Industry unless the demands of the men wtTi .in'' 'I Jesse P. Henderson, a special d p-uty p-uty sheriff employed by a copper com- 0,11- 1 an t i f In n cnrT.ph i) el i vererl hv i Ij.nw , IBOH.ivu w . v H. J. Kane, another I. W W. organizer, I in which the statement was made that the organization had 190,000 members and could 'call a strike in twenty -four hours which would tie up every Indus-! Indus-! try in the country. He said the num-i num-i ber of guards at one copper mine was Increased from 20 to 200 after the strike had been called. This action, he $ J said, was taken after there had been J several explosions and fires in the company's proD( rl y A letter was read from W. D. Haywood Hay-wood to Don Sheridan at Spokane, in which Pay wood said: "We are crowding on steam this I, year. We want to get a real start before be-fore the authorities begin to put their clamps on us. When we have every ! other industry as well organized as the lumber workers of western Washington Wash-ington and Idaho then we won't care what the lawmakers do. If we make the wheels go round, the ship of Btate vwll be sailing to our breeze." That the I. W. W. did not want the ?J American flag displayed in any of their j headquarters was disclosed by a letter j I written b J. Ratti to Don Sheridan. : "I am up against a tough proposition find want to get enlightened a little bit on it," wrote Ratti. "The I. W. W. hall is the only place in town without a displav of the flag, a svmbol which means slavery and upholding It. "The last two nights an American flag was nailed in front of the door and naturally it was taken down. I am standing pat and will not fly a flag of any one nation as we are international interna-tional in scope." In reply Sheridan wrote: "About the flag, rather than have a rumpus, it will be better to let it stick-I stick-I would rather you kept it down though." The number of defendants on trial was reduced to 110 today when Judge Landis at the request of the government govern-ment dismissed the cases against Stanley Demicki, who says thnt before joining the I. W. W. he was employed as a chauffeur by fount von Bern-storff, Bern-storff, former German ambassador to the United States and J. J. Keenan, formerh a sergeant in the British l army for nine years. |