The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-20
$4,000 Men Do Not Join in
/. w. w. WalkOut.
Leader and 26 Aides Held in
Jail at Spokane.
SHERIFFS ARM BIG POSSES
Determined To Suppress Agita'
ton Turnout Northwest.
"Stench in NOstrils of Decent
Americans" Says Governor.

Spokane, Aug. 2O.-A general strike
of the /. w. w. called ds protest
against the holding of its reembers in
Jail without charges tein3s preferred
against them. supposed to begin to-
day in Montana. Washington. Idaho
and Oregon. did not get good start
according to reports received here.
James Rowan. district secretary of
the l. w w. in the far northwestern
state and 26 other alleged members OF
the organization, who were arrested
here Yesterday by national guards
men, remained in the county Jail as
military prisoners. Their disposition
will be discussed later today by Ma
jor Clement wilkins, who made the
arrests, and the United States attor-
ney and marshal.
Among the men in Jail with Rowan
is Nils Madison. who recenIl-' was re-
leased from Jail at EllepsburS. He
had just arrived in Spokane TO report
to the officials of the organization.
Following the refusal of city au-
thorities several weeks ago to prohibit
l. W. w. strike meetings. Major Will
kins today ordered all street speaking
by the agitators stopped. Soldiers to-
day patroled the streets on which the
l. w. w. have been holding meetings.
Spokane has been the center of I.
w. w. propaganda for months. Strikes
in the Idaho panhandle and eastern
Montana were conducted from Spo-
kane.
Literature was sent from here to
all points in the northwest and agi-
tators met here and planned new
campaigns.
Organize To Meet I. w. w.
Boise. Aug. 20.-Sheriffs of south
ern Idaho have made preparation on
big scale to quell possible l. w. w.
| rioting. In Ada county, Sheriff Pfost
has appointed rs deputies and each
! deputy has organized a company of
| ten men subject to call. Other south
! Idaho counties have followed the same
plan.
Governor Pans Both Sides.
| Phoenix. Arizona, Aug. 20.-Both
sides in the controversy between al
| legged /. w. w. members and the
Citizens loyalty league of Risbee
which on July IL deported more than
| 1900 strikers and sympathizers were
taken to task today by Gov. Campbell
in his first public statement since a
personal investigation of the Warren
district troubles.
| Methods of deporting men without
due process of law were declared by
| the governor to be without justifica-
ton, while the tactics alleged to have
| been adopted by members of the In
dustrial Workers of the World were
characterized as a stencil in tho
nostrils of decent Americans"
| The governors statement was in the
form of a letter to Sheriff Wheeler
and County Attorney Ross of Cochise
county, and Mayor Erickson of Bisbee
Farmers Arm for Battle.
| Portland, Ore, Aug. 20.-The Pa
| cific northwest today was prepared
| for the l. w. w.
| Armed farmers have formed a semi
military organization in practically
every county. Spanish-American wal
veterans are organized in a number OF
| towns and troops are scattered at con-
venient points thruout the four states
| Guardsmen at Port Angeles. Wash
wrecked the I. w. w. hall Sunday
| throwing the furniture out in the
| streets and dumping I. w. w. litera-
| ture into the harbor. Corporal Egan
who is alleged to have led the militia
is under arrest.