The Mena weekly star., 1918-05-30
1. ". W. PRAISE
 FOR HI: KAISER
Germans Said Organization "knew Their Signs" Witness Ssys-Draft- ed Men to Kill Officers, but No
 Teutons, Member Testifes.

Chicago, May 26.-Ringing declara- tions in favor of the German kaiser as a ruler in America as compared with the present administration were made at the meeting place of the Industrial
 Workers of the World in Milwaukee, Wis, after the final break with Ger many, according to testimony yester- day at the trial of 112 I. W. W. lead CTS for seditious conspiracy.
 Planned to Kill Officers.
 Joseph BurdelI, who said he was forced to join the L W. W. to safe guard his life, testified c. J. Bourg, d defendant, and other Germans at the Milwaukee hall, declared l. W. W. "knew their signs that if they were drafted into the army they would shoot but they would choose their marks carefully.
 Our bullets will not strike down the Germans but pierce the necks of American officers," Burdell testified that he urged the overthrow of the American government.
 "We can put the American army on the bum as quickly and effectively as we can wreck construction com pany plant" Bourg said, adding the members should begin by burning grain fields, destroying food produe- ton plants and wrecking munition factories.
 Said Germans Were Ready.
 ''If the Germans strike in the East we should be ready to strike in the West and bring about complete over- throw of the government" Bcurg was quoted as saying. He said Germans and rebel leaders knew the great num- Der of Germans in America were ready and willing to fight the Ameri- can war program.
 Burdell testified Bourg, whose ex- pIoits as an organizer in the harvest fields last year resulted in his being branded with the letters q. w. w." by a mob, was the most ardent of the Milwaukee speakers in his revolu- Bionary announcements.
 "We will be doing a good thing for if we follow out the pol cy of fighting the masters, calling ,ur men to arms" Bourg was quoted IS saying.
 Witness Feared for His Life.
 Burdell, who is one of the govern nent's leading witnesses, told of years if battle with the I. W. W. in the big ,rain and lumber districts, and said asst year he joined the organization in Milwaukee while working for con truction company where l. w. W.'s 
 q kenw then and I was afraid hey would kill me if did not join" Ie left the organization in short ime and obtained employment in Chi ago.
 Under questioning by Frank K. Jebeker, chief prosecutor, Burdeil ex- ,lained the Thigh jack" or strong arm actics of the gang, told how the arm machinery was wrecked faster han the land owners could make re- airs at a time when loss of day meant big financil loss and related pecifc instances of property destruc- ion.
 Tells of Work in West.
 Witness told of being thrown from
 rapidly moving train by an l. w. V. brakeman because he carried an American Federation of Labor card nstead of an I. w. W. card Sabotage vas practiced in the Montana and Washington farming districts to the xtent of pushing horses in wells and ,rinding the teeth from threshing . machines.
 The agricultural phase of the gov rnment's case virtually was com 'leted yesterday, but Burdell will re- tune the witness stand Monday for urther cross-examination by George !. Vanderveer, chief counsel for the efense.
 Claude R. Porter and Mir. Nebeker will begin presentation of the mine netaI workers phase of the case early lext week.