Licking Valley courier., 1917-09-13
Government Finally Closes Down
s4 on Industrial Workers of
the World.
MANY RAIDS AND ARRESTS
Italians Continue Victorious Progress
Toward Trieste-eermans Take
Riga and Great Naval Battle
In the Gulf of Finland
ls Expected.
BY EwARD W. PicKARD.


Its war industries hampered, its dig
nifty outraged and us patience ex-
.lhapstea. the 6 - neptof the Limited
States arose In It's might last week ana
began the process OF squashlng the dis
reputable and disloyal Industrial
Workers of the World In more than :
a score of cities, mostly In the middle
and far West, their headquarters and
printing offices were raided and great
quantities of material seized. The
department of Justice prepared for this
action secretly and carried 1t out
swiftly and skillfully, and Is now ready
to have the leaders Of the organization
indicted II the documents taken war
rant this. In some cities many arrests
were 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, were the
preaching of sabotage-the wilfull de-
struction Of property-and the use of
'stlckerettes" designed to obstruct en-
listing, which were pl;lstered all over
the country, They are also accused
Of misusing the mails to send out mat
ter advocating treason, lnsurrectiOn
and forcible resistance to the laws con-
cernlng the carrying ON of the war,
The documents seized show that the
]. w. W.. was planning nationwide
strike which, II hoped would tie up
munltl0n plants, railroads and lumber
mills, and the sabotage advocated was
TO be practlced In connection with this
strike.
There is 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 mlsled creatures.
The national headquarters of the
Socialist party In Chicago also were
raided and hooks and papers seized.
: "Blo Bill" in Eclipse.
Another prominent" opponent of tn,
overnment-William Hale Thompson
the mayor of Chlcago-came croppel
last week. In defiance of the orders o
Governor Lowden, he compelled tn,
police of Chicago TO give protection {,
meeting of the pacitists who hat
been barred from Wisconsin, MinnesO
tn and other states. Thereupon tn
governor sent troops to the city to pre-
vent repetition of the 0ifense, the cit
council of Chicago formally rebuke,
the mayor, the agents of the depart
ment of Justice began inquiries int
his conduct with u view to his indict
ment, the press and people of tn
country denounced him, and his IN
fantlle boom for the Illinois senator
ship collapsed utterly, He did not Z
to the Kankakee fair, where that bool
was slated to be started II is diilcu
to write of Thompson, Mason and oil
er still more prominent foes of theI
country In printable language. ThoS
who combat the governments war q
forts "give aid and comfort to III
enemy and exasperated loyalty wol
ders why they are not subjected TO II
penalties prescribed by the law again
treason.
Great Victory for italians.
When the Italian armies on TucsdI
st0lmed and captured Monte san q
bE~ne they took the last mountain for
- Tess barring their way toward Lnlba,
aud an advance that would separa
the northern and southern Austrl,
armies. Such movement probab
viii compel the Austrlans TO evacun
Trieste, which mas been under shell Il
from the water for days, and also
iikely to result In the taking of n