New-York tribune., 1917-12-02
A Week of |. WV.
News andActivities

pointed by President Wilson 10 IN
- vestigate the labor troubles IN
Arizona. the W. W. movement and the
deportation of 1000 men from Bisbee last
July, after careful inquiries on the spot
and the examination Of ali witnesses tnat
it could lay hands upon, finds that the citi-
zens and mining companies of Bisoee were
guilty Of the grossest violation OF the law.
"The Defence News Bulletin" the ofii-
cial newspaper Of the !. w. W. organiza-
ton, which was formerly THE Sabotage,
has changed its name because OF suppress
sion by the United States governmental
authorities.
In Chicago the |. w. W. are sending
out leaflets arguing the right to strike
and that the Industrial Workers Of the
World indictments are simply capitals
tic frame-up. The literature is sent out
under the general defence committee SEAL
signed both with William d. FNywood's
rubber stamp or his name in L 't or else
| by f. F. Doree, as acting secretary treas"
urer Of the organization.
Deputy United States Marshal Sam
Hill stated in Wichita, Kan, that there
were fifteen Federal and state officers
working in the Butler County oil fields and
that they were rounding up every !. W. W.
Thirty-nine |. W. WIS are in jail IN
Ell Dorado and Augusta, Kan, following
raids.
Persons living in the vicinity OF
schoolhouse three miles northeast of Troy,
| Kan, are aroused over the discovery OF
notes left In school books. The notes are
all Of threatening character.
Plans are being formulated by the state
council in Tacoma, Wash, TO crush the J..
w. w. in that state. Fourteen alleged
| I. w. WIS who were arrested at Camp
Lewis by the military police following
several weeks Of investigations, and who
/ have been held in the guardhouse, will be
tried in the Federal court rather than by
court martial.
CITY and county officers of Bartlesville,
Okla. are cooperating with Federal OFF,
GERS in rounding up |. W. W.
Eli Hihnala, an alleged |. W. W., was
arrested November 81 in Ironwood, Mich.
Evidence that will have an important
bearing on the cases Of William ID. Hay
wood and Fineas Eastman, !. W. W. lead
ers, recently arrested in Chicago, and
positive information that the !. w. W.
had planned a reign of violence in Kansas
oil fields to avenge anti-agtators were OBJ
/ tanned in a Federal raid on !. W. W.
headquarters at Augusta. The round up
of alleged !. W. w. agtators in Butler
| County has resulted in the arrest Of one
hundred persons.
The secretary of the Finnish |. W. W.
I League at Red Lodge, coal mining camp
southwest of Billings, Mont, was horse
whipped by Liberty committee
Martin Gunderson and Stanley Brown,
members of the |. W. W., have been con-
victed in the Federal court Of Aberdeen,
S. D., of conspiring to burn property.
Secret Service men investigating the ST.
Louis and San Francisco wreck south OF
Muskogee, Okla, in which three men were
killed and three injured, believe the wreck
was the first of a series of outrages
planned in revenge for the arrest Of !.
w. W.'s in Kansas oil fields. Four men
were arrested in Henryetta, Okla, carry
ing I. w. W. cards.
A statewide plot to burn cotton gins.
mills and storage houses in Texas is
blamed upon the |. W. w. by state Off
cials.
Agents of the Department Of Justice in
Minneapolis on November 10 seized
mass of records, correspondence and liter
ature at headquarters Of the ]. W. W.
The raid was made at the request Of the.
United States District Attorney at Chi
cago for deeper inquiry into the activities
of the agricultural department Of the ].
w. W. ~