Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1917-09-13
Government Finally Glasses Down
on Industrial WORKERS of
the Wofl,i.
MANY RAIDS AND ARRESTS
Italians Continue Victorious Progress
Toward Tricste-Germans Take
Riga and Great Naval Battle
in the Gulf OF Finland
Is Expected.
BY EWARD w. PickARp.

Its war industries hampered its Dig
hausted, the government OF the United
States arose in its might last week ana
began the process OF squaslling "a dis
reputable and disloyals in,lt =, |
Workers of the World. In more ,i!An
score of cities, mostly in the middle
and far West, their headquarte and
printing offices We're i;,jCe, ;nt ;relt
quantities of material seized INe
department of justice prepared Il this
action secretly and carried il &at
swiftly and skillfully, and is l.oN' re.e..
to have the leaders of the organization
indicted il the documents zen war-
rant this In some cities many arrests
We're made. Prosecutions may be
started under the new espionage law,
or any one of several other laws.
Two of the things that caused Uncle
Sam to get after the |. w. w. We're the
preaching of sabotage-thc wiltull de-
struction of property and the use of
"Stickerettes" designed to obstruct ell
listing, which We're plastered all over
the country. They are also accused
OF misuSing the mails to send out mat
ter advocating treason. insurrection
and fOrcible resistance to the laws con-
corning the carrying on of the war.
The documents seized show that the
I. w. w. was planning a nationwide
strike which, ii hoped would tie up
munition plants. railroads and lumber
mills, and the sabotage advocated was
to be practiced in connection with this
strike.
There is a well grounded belief that
the leaders of the ]. w W. are CON
stantly supplied with funds from Ger
man sources, but the great mass of its
members no doubt are merely ignorant
and misIed creatures.
The national headquarters of the
Socialist party in Chicago also were
raided and books and papers seized.
"Big Bill" in Eclipse.
Another prominent opponent of the
government-Willia Hale Thompson,
the mayor of Chicago came II ci-3pper
last week. In defiance OF the orders OF
Governor Lowden, he compelled the
police of Chicago TO give protection 10
meeting of the paciiists who had
been barred from Wisconsin. Minneso-
ia and other states. I'llcroupon the
governor sent troops TO the city TO pre-
vent repetition of the oiIenSe, the city
council of Chicago formally rebli!led
the mayor, the agents OF the depart
ment of justice began inquiries into
his conduct with view To his indict-
ment, the press and people of the
country denounced him and his in
fantile boom for the Illinois senator
ship collapsed utterly. He did not go
to the Kankakee fair. where tlla1 boom
to write of Thompson, Mason and 9TH
er still more prominent foes of their
country in printable language Those
who combat the governments war eff
forts 'give aid and comfort to the
enemy" and exasperatcd loyalty Won
ders why they are not subjected to the
penalties prescribed by the law against
I treason.
Great Victory for Italians.
When the Italian armies on Tuesday
stormed and captured Monte San Ca
briele they took the last mountain fort
ress barring their way toward Laibach
and an advance that would separate
tho northern and southern Austrian
armies. Such movement probably
ytn compel the Austrians to evacuate
Trieste, which has been under shell fire
from the water for days. and also is
likely to result In the taking OF Toll