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Show WOULD POISON SOLDIER BOYS. Testifying against the Industrial Workers of Ihe World, W E Town send, who claims to have been Wil-Jllam Wil-Jllam D. Haj wood s right-hand man, .declares he and other members of his organization planned to send poisoned canned goods to the soldiers during the war. Three hundred of the 1. W. W worked In the big packing houses In Chicago and did all in their power to cripple the fighting forces of the United States. Before accepting Townsepd as a reditable witness, his past should be Inquired Into,. He may be a hired in-' in-' former. If his record Is clean and ho Is shown to have been a consistent land earnest advocate of syndicalism, jihn his word is to be believed He condemns his co-workers in a most effective ef-fective way-It way-It is hardly believable that any body of Amerlcan-bcrn workers deliberately de-liberately would plan to poison the 'boys who left our homes in 1917 and l91S lo fight for country and uphold the prestige of the United States Even though the I W. W. did not believe in war, the method employed to express their opposition was foul and cowardly. The I W. V certainly did not maintain that Germany was a loss offender than the United States. Whj did the I W. W. seek to cripple this country and fall to direct a campaign against he forces of the kaiser'' The T. W. W., as a matter of fact, was an organization U3ed b German pr pi gandlBtl to dupe Americans who ssing a deep seated grouch, had not the mental balance to rise above their pet! y hatreds when their coun trj called to them. If Townsond's evidence is shown to be a truthful statement, tho I W. V. .'icmld be In nackcloth and ashes tor their past offenses. If they do not like America, and If their blows 1 a 0 been struck for Germany, they Bhould be invited to deport for Ger- ', many, or foi Russia, where "BUI" IIawood Is now appealing for an op portunity to get back to America |