Evening star., 1917-09-29
|. v. W.W.LEADERS
LODGED IN PRISON
Unable to Furnish the $4,000
Bail Bonds Required by the
Federal Court.
CRIME "NExT TO TREASON"
Rr the AssociatndP Prnsa

| CHICAGO, September 29-The nine
leaders of the Industrial Workers OF
the World who were arrested in Chi
cago last night on indictments charg-
Ing seditious conspiracy. returned by a
| federal grand jury against 166 mem
| bers of the organization throughout
the United States. were in jail today
having been unable to furnish bonds
which were fixed at $4,000 each. ex-
cept in the case of William D. Hay
| wood. international secretary treasurer.
ber of men were taken into custody
along with the leaders. but a number
were released after being questioned,
while others are being held as wit
nesses.
in addition to arrests here. federal
agents took into custody in other cities
men who We're included in the indict-
ments which were returned yesterday
as a result of evidence obtained during
the raids on I. w. w. headquarters in
various parts of the country early this
month.
Arrests in Other Cities.
Arrests of leaders of the organiza-
It
cisco. Portland. Ore; Des Moines. Iowa !:
Youngstown, Ohio; Huntington, W. Va; /;
Philadelphia and Cambridge, Mass.
Federal officials expect that other ar
rests VIII be made during the day. The
United States district attorneys office.
in statement on the /. W. w. activi-
ties said:
The propaganda of the defendants
consists of assertions that we are
going to take possession of the indus
t-f.a l.
want them; second. because we are
in this crisis possessed of the power
to put it over" In addition there is
running through all these endeavors a
pronounced opposition to the support
of the war;
Federal agents in various parts of the
country today continued to make ar
rests of members of the /. W. W.. ac-
cording to kilograms received at the
office of the United States district at
torney, Charles F. Clyne. No state
ment was forthcoming this morning as
to when a complete list of prisoners
could be announced.
Statements by federal officials that
the offenses charged in the indict-
ments are next In gravity to trea-
son." and that all Of the 166 persons
indicted will probably be brought to
Chicago for trial added interest to
the case.
Chicago the Headquarters.
Papers seized in the raids have re-
the existence of a definite and far
reaching conspiracy to embarrass the
government, and also show that Chi
cago was the headquarters of the plot.
1t became known today that the in
dictments were returned before half
of the evidence seized in recent raids
on /. W. w. headquarters had been ex-
amined. The sudden action is said to
have been due in part to the character
of the evidence exhibited and to the
information in the hands of govern
ment agents that the agitators were
busy in various parts of the United
States in spite of recent raids.
1t was pointed out by officials of the
government that a large number of the
men indicted are natives of Austria.
District Attorneys Statement.
The following statement was issued
last night by District Attorney Clyne:
The grand jury has completed its
labors and reported to the United
States district court The number of
persons indicted and the nature of the
accusations cannot at this time be
given to the public for the obvious
reason that the investigation has been
inclusive of a large number of the
leaders of the Industrial Workers of
the World. of whom about $50 will
have to be arrested.
The prosecutions are under sections
6. 10 and 81 of the criminal code. and
under the espionage act. Only leaders
in conspiracies or those personally
culpable in connection with the per-
petration of crimes against the United
States are included as defendants.
The astounding feature which stands
out at the conclusion of the investiga-
ton and which Is well calculated to
make patriotic persons shudder with
alarm is found in the disclosure of the
number Of men enjoying the protec-
ton of the government who are so far
unmindful of social duties and obliga-
tions as to openly advocate the most
vicious forms of sabotage. particularly
in industries engaged in furnishing
war munitions.
The activities of these defendants
has been directed against what they
conceived. or pretended to 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 upon because. as they in
sist, the opportunity was here and was
now presented to make effective those
secret and covert processes Of destruc-
tion which they traitorously employed
while pretending to work. In other
words. the assertion is that they can
now make inf1delity to duty more eff
cacious and destructive than would
have been possible at any conceiva BILE
juncture in the country's existence
Propaganda of Sedition.
"Boi1ed down and stated in few
words the propaganda of these defend
ants consists of these assertions:
1--WE are going to take possession of
the industries of this country because
we want them; second, because we need
W. in
crisis possessed of the power to put 1t
over