Arizona republican., 1917-10-03
MORE INDUSTRIAL
 WORKERS OF WORLD
 ARE UNDER ARREST
Republican A.P. Leased Wirel

CHICAGO. Oct 1.-Two more ar rests of members of the l. w. w. TOT whom the federal government Otllclals have been looking since thelr lnulct- ment a week ago were reported today They were Grover H. Perry, taken Tn Salt Lake City, and ~Iohn Ahleen, ar rested in Minneapolis.
 CoDies of the indictment returned by the grand jury were made public today. It describes the organization known as the l. w. w. as composed or zVu,Voo persons, mostly laborers in the indus tries necessary to the existence ana welfare of the people of the United States, transportation, mining, meat packing. canning, numbering, farming, livestock, fruit, vegetable and cotton raising.
 The indictment further defines the members of the organization as del& ing themselves as the workers a> the .proletariat" and describing all other classes of society as "capltallst, the capitalistic class, the master class" the ruling class" 'explolters of the workers" bourgeois and par asites"
 The purpose offthe organization, the indictment continues. was to aDolsn the latter classes and to gain for the former class control and ownership of all property, such abolition to be ac- complished not by political action or with any regard to right or wrong, Dut bv the continual and persistent use and employment of unlawful and forcible means and methods involving threats, assaults. injuries, intimidations and murders upon the persons and the in- jury and destruction of property of the other classes. the forcible resistance to the execution of all laws and finally. the forcible revolutionary overthrow of all existing governmental authority in the United States. The means of de- stroying property was described with in l. w. w. circles, continues the in dictment, as sabotage" direct ac- cion," working of the job wearing the wooden shoes" and slowing down tactics" It was planned to use such activities in all strikes lin reckless and utter disregard of the rights of all per sons not members, and especially the rights of the United States to execute it's laws"
 The plans were designed particular ly to take advantage of the opportunity presented by the desire and necessity for the United States expeditiously and successfully to carry on it's war and by the consequent necessity for all laborers to perform their tasks faith fully
 "The persons named in the indict- ment5 sought to achieve the purposes of the organization" is says, through interference with the production and manufacture of munitions, ships, fuel, subsistence, supplies, clothing, shelter, equipment necessary for the military and naval forces of the United States in carrying on the war, and has inter- fered with transportation and discour- aged, obstructed and hindered the prosecution of the war by requiring the members of the organization avail able for duty in military and naval forces to fail to register and to refuse to submit to registration and draft and to incite others to so fail, notwith- standing the cowardice of such failure"
 James Phillips Arrested
 BOSTON, Oct. 2-James Phillips, alleged to be an organizer of the h. dustrial Workers of the World, wanted in Chicago on a charge of conspring against the government in connection with the draft act, was arrested here today.