The Sentinel=record., 1918-05-30
I.W.W'S PLANNED TO
 SEIZE GOVERNMENT
WARNED AGAINST PURCHASE OF LIBERTY BONDS AS THEY
 WOULD BE REPUDIATED.

Chicago, May 29-The metal mine
 phase of the government case
 asa'nst liz Industrial Workers or the World accused of conspiring to
 cause a rebellion while the natior.
 was at war virtually was completed
 tonight and evidence bearing on far west and northwest disorders will De taken up probably tomorrow
 Tales of lawlessness in the south west last year at the time the nation
 was striving to speed up it's military preparations were related in core spondence seized from the files of leaders and substantiated by govern ment witnesses brought from ihe
 Arizona mining region.
 The government says the draft is going into effect September l." Gro yer II. Perry. one of the most rad | teal workers m the southwest, m formed the membership in an off
 cial bulletin But so far as the L. w. w. miners are concerned it is not going into effect at all
 These and numerous other declara- l tions against the draft against Lib- erty loan bonds and against the Washington government were read
 into the records by Claude R. Porter, special assistant attorney general America needs 750, 600 men in this
 country right now to put down rebel
 lion," Stanley J Clark, a defendant. asserted in impassioned anti war speech at meeting in Wichita Falls,
 Texas, August 2l. Clark also drew a urid picture of the L. w. W. takins
 over the government, according to l testimony For this forthcomlnA
 event the government would be dons
 the l. w. w. no harm by taking over railroads and other industries. he pointed out, adding that it would save
 the organization many details l When the socialists clasp hands across the trenches, then and ouly 1 then, will the great war come to an | end" Clark was quoted by govern ment witnesses as having informed Texas crowds at street meetings.
 The socialists then will have come | Clark warned the public aga,Js, the purchase of Liberty loan bonds declaring the l. W w. after the war would repudiate all such debts W tnesses told of the reign of ter TOT in the Arizona mining districts involving the deportation of hundreds of l. w. W.'s from Bisbee and testi- fled concerning conditions leading up , to the strike of mneworkers
 Resolutions adopted by the Miam. Arizona, branch were read into the records by Chief Prosecutor Frank K Nebeker. They called upon the mme worker to establish a SIX hour day thirty minutes of which was to be al
 lowed for lunch. discharge armed guards and permit utilization with the I w w. by all workers and fixed an
 minimum wage scale of $6 per day William Pope. of the department oi justice and R. Riddle, postmaster a, | Electra, Texas, testified eoncernng
 the activities of Clark who finally informed the governor of Arizona that
 unless miners were granted their de-
 mands the l. w. w. would display ;ls | power.
 Clark said he told the governor
 that unless the concessions were granted there would not be a bushel
 of grain in the northwest this year, Pope testified
 The organization pointed to its m ,tfit1, sta af nTt
 ately after the Arizona strikes cop per production was decreased ono half million pounds a day.