Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-29
LEADERS Of |. v. v.
UNDER INDICTMENT
FOR. CONSPIRACY
Arrests of VIM. d. Haywood
and Others Quickly
Follow.
MEN HELD IN DEFAULT
OF BIG BAIL BONDS
Plots Against War Activities of
Government Extend Practically
Into Every State.
ASTOUNDING FACTS REVEALED
Evidence Laid Before Federal Grand
Jury Weighs More
Than Ton.
ASTOUNDING FACTS REVEALED
Evidence Laid Before Federal Grand
Jury Weighs More
Than Ton.

CHICAGO. September 2S.--Formal re-
turn OF blanket Indictment charging
nationwide conspiracy to hamper the
government during the war. was made
to-day In the United States District
Court here against l56 leaders Of the
Industrial Workers of the World
Arrests speedily followed the return
Almost before the court proceedings
had reached the state of the discharge
or the jury. deputy marshals were on
their way To the local !. W. W head
quarters In automobiles donated and
driven by women. and quickly returned
to the Federal Building bringing pris-
oners with them.
In the first hour thirty-hve men were
haied into the marshars office and later
were questioned by investigators for
the Department of Justice Among
the nrst to he taken in custody was
William ID. Haywood secretary OF the
national organization OF the r W W.
who was questioned on Septcmhcr
when tho headquarters OF the l. w w
In various cities were raidcd by the
government
With Haywood eight other leaders
OF the l. w. w. were the FIRST arrested
Ihey arc as follows: Richard Brazier,
Spokane. member ot tho executive
council: George Andrcichicn. Duluth.
manager publicity bureau in Chicago:
Ralph H. Chaplin. editor and ,naraEcr
OF Solidarity: Vladimir I.ossicn. Chi.
caEo: Bert l.. Orton. Chicago. manager
j. w. W. recruiting union: Charles
hothhsher. editor \ Berburkas:
Sn8Tics Plahm, Chicago and Detroit:
Herbert Mailer. Seattle and Chicago
ADDITIONAL ARRESTS
a. WILL he MADE; TO-DAY
Additional arrests are 10 be made t.
morrow In "a dozen cities All arc TO be
brought to Chicago for trial
Heavy fnes and jail sentences are
provided as penalties IN three. sections
OF the criminal code and the more re-
cent espionage law upon which to-day's
| indictments arc based
Big BIZ Haywood and his aids
offered no resistance when twen,,. de-
tectives surrounded them within AN
hour after the indictinon;s were re.
ported
Il expected it," said Haywood "and
don't care TO talk about it,"
Haywood reiterated this statement
as he was waiting TO climb into a
patrol wagon that backed up to the
Clark street entrance of the Federal
Building at o'clock and took him
and his eight associates to the county
/ Jail.
All efforts to talk to others under
arrest were frustrated by agents of
= the Department OF Justice.
Haywood has been held in default
OF $4,000 bond. The bail OF the
others was fixed at 10000 Only III.
nine are under formal arrest i'm Chi
cago." said Hinton q. Clahmugh. di-
visional chief of the Federal investI-
CATION bureau Other arrests will be-
made in other cities tomorrow, after
which their names will be announced.'
EXACT NUMBER OF TRUE
BILLS VOTED KEPT SECRET
Permission was not given by the
government for examination of the in
dictments, and the exact number or
true bills voted is still kept secret
But the cruX OF the governments rea-
sons for its prosecution was outlineo
in statement signed by the prosecu-
tors in charge. which said:
The prosecutions are under section.
6. 19 and 81 of the criminal code and
under the espionage act. Only leaders
! in copspiracics or those personally
culpable in connection with the perpe-
tration of crimes against the United
/ States are included as defendants
Tho astounding feature which
| stands out at the conclusion Of the
| investigation, and which is we'll cal
1 culated to make patriotic persons
shudder with alarm, is found in the
disclosure of the number of men en-
joying the protection of the govern
ment who are so far nnmindful of
social duties and obligations as to
. openly advocate the most vicious forms
OF sabotage. particularly in Industries
engaged in furnishing war munitions
The activities of these defendants
have been directed against what they
conceive or pretend 20 conceive to be
the misguided attitude OF. the world at
large toward persons not possessed of
property. the result being that this
time Of general stress and strain has
been seized on because. as they insist
| the opportunity was here and now pre-
sented to make effective those secrets
and covert processes of destruction
which they traitorously employed
while pretending to work"
PRONOUNCED OPPOSITION
TO SUPPORT OF WAR
The written statement also said:
I'm addition. there Is running through
all these endeavors pronounced op-
position to the support of the war In
which this country is enlisted, the
teaching being that whatever can be
done to make the power OF the enemy
greater or our power OF resistance less
effective Is a service.
THE investigation and resulting in
dictments we believe will be entirely
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