The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-05-03
FITS DENOUNcES l. ". ", AG|TATORS BEOFRE MEETING United States Assistant At torney General Talks to
 Miss. Lawyers. SAYS MARTIAL LAW
 IS UNNECESSARY $50 in Money Distinguishes Man From An I. W. w.
 Declares Speaker.

'a'7Ason' Miss, May 3.---Organized violence of Industrial Workers of the "orfd was described and denounced oy William c. Fits, Assistant Attor- ney General of the United States. in an aooress here tonight before the MlssIsSlppl State Bar Association. MT. fltts' who has had charge of the Ma 'lon- W1de campaign against l. W. w. agltators and the prosecution of many leaders since the United States en- tered the war, declared the German government encourages spreadine- of the doctrines of sabotage in the Unit ed States, Russia and other allied countries. Civil processes, he said are su11clent to catch the agitators and lnartlal law as proposed by bills in congress is entire unnecessary. The l. w. w. are related by their theories to International Reds, Bol- sheViM, and other revolutionists, said MT. F1tts and all "are making war, hrst on legitimate labor organizations and on the very social farlbric which l protects them and us.''
 MT. Fftts said he had extensive ev- ldence that the l. W. w., have pre- vented the raising of crops by prac- tlcing sabotage in. the planting, SOW
 ing and reaping. They have put
 phosphorus balls in shocks of wheat, in bales of hay and in the barns" he said. They have destroyed harvest 1 ing machinery and placed dynamite in the sheafs. They have destroyed mature fruit trees by driving copper nails into them below tn surface of | the ground
 'NThey have destroyed mining ma chinery, especially in the copper mines and in the mines where the miner als essential to the conduct of tn war arc mined or produced. They have fired forests, particularly the forests of spruce; that being the wood essen- tial for making airpIanes. They have destroyed saws in the saw-mi1s by driving pices of steel or iron in the logs so as to break the band saws and unerve the sawyers. They saw lumber shorter than standard lengths. The I. W. w: have surrounded court houses and packed court rooms for i the purpose of putting over their plans. They have taken possession of rail- road trains and assaulted and mur- dered the train crews. They missend freight, misplace signal lights, and put emery dust or sand in journal boxes, on railroad cars.
 Members of the organization place foreign substances in food in hotels and restaurants, break crockery, dip table forks in crude oil, use stink pots in dining rooms and put bed-bugs in beds. They remove units from care fully adjusted machinery, misplace and omit parts of copy in printing offices and put foreign substances in canned goods.
 ''No man can be an I. w. w. who possesses as. much as $50 in money or property, or who has permanent employment, or becomes a soldier or g. sailor of any country.
 tgThey view with alarm the prepar ation of the country to resist it's for eign enemies, because they not only would gladly witness the triumph or those enimies but also because they do not want the country to be pre- pared to meet and stamp out the an- archy which they intend to foment from within. All their communica- tions begin with the words, Dear Comrade" and end with the words ''Yot1rs for the Revolution While our precious boys are freely pouring their youth on the battlef1elds of France, the Adminir ration is bring ing to bear, and bravely, every order ly process of the law for the suppress sion of this propaganda and the erad- ication of this poison If the present statutes, intended for fairly decent people, cannot reach these devils, then Congress, which is neither backward nor pussyfooted, will pass laws which rril1 catch them r