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Show II. a TO BE PURGED OF I. WjyiENACE HARVEST OF INDICTMENTS AT CHICAGO ONLY A BEGINNING OF THE WORK. Documents In Possession of the Government Gov-ernment Are Understood to Show Extensive and Far-reaching Plans Against Government. Washington. The great harvest of Indict incuts returned at Chicago, it was authoritatively staled .Monday, is but a fraction of whaL the government govern-ment will reap as the result of its nation-wide raid on Industrial Workers of the World offices September 5. Only I hose regarded hy the government govern-ment as the chief figures in the alleged al-leged conspiracy to thwart the government gov-ernment in Its war plans have been indicted. Tons of documents seized in the raid have yet to be studied, their disclosures catalogued and arranged ar-ranged for use in further proceedings. This work Is now going on in approximately approx-imately fifty towns and cities from coast to coast. In obtaining indictments against 100 alleged ringleaders of the conspiracy conspir-acy the department of justice has simply sim-ply skimmed the cream of the investigation. inves-tigation. Documents in its possession posses-sion are understood to show extensive and far-reaching minor plans, confined con-fined to particular localities and designed de-signed to affect local situations, through which those named in tlie indictments in-dictments and many others are believed be-lieved by the authorities to have sought to hamper the government by methods, some of which have not yet been disclosed to the public. Contrary to the general belief, no direct connection has been shown thus far between the alleged leaders ot the conspiracy and tlie huge German corruption cor-ruption fund believed to have been operating op-erating in this country since America's entry into the war. Many indications point strongly to the connection which officials hope to establish, but none, It is reported, is absolutely confirmatory. confirma-tory. This development has led officials to believe that the full scope of the conspiracy's operation has not yet been revealed. So far as yet determined, deter-mined, there was no master spy, no single controlling head, which directed direct-ed the activities of the anti-war workers. work-ers. A group of fairly generous proportions, propor-tions, the evidence indicates, has been In charge of the entire program of propaganda and outrages from the spreading of alleged seditious literature litera-ture to the burning of crops and the arming of farmers and others to resist re-sist the draft law. |