The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-20
SABOTAGE SHOWN
IN |. ". ". TRIALS
EVIDENCE BROUGHT OUT SHOWS
SYSTEMATIC PLANS FOR
HURTING EMPLOYERS

SACRAMENIO, Cal, Dec. 10
Letters referring to arson and other
forms of sabotage were read to the
! jury late today at the trial of As per-
sons on trial in the United States
district court here for alleged plots
to violate war work and disrupt war
activity.
Most of the letters bore the sigma
lures of alleged conspirators with the
defendants here, including several
men convicted at the Chicago l. w.
w. trial last summer. Several touched
upon activity charged against the In
dustrial Workers of the World in the
northwest.
Alleged formulas for treating
plants and trees with chemicals and
directions for mixing the finest
flour of emery dust in lubricating oil
for machinery" were also read to the
jury.
Today's showing was for the pur-
pose of proving the general consplr-
acy charge. Witnesses are to be
placed on the stand, beginning tomor-
row, in an effort to connect the indl-
vidual defendants in the plots charged
it was announced
A letter signed E. Krause, Sec,
Portland, August 13, 1914, and adj
dressed to Vincent st. John, I(W. w.
writer, who was convicted at Chicago,
lsaid:
"The stiffs in this part of the coun-
try are certainly raising hell, as more
than SO threshers burned around here
and the farmers offered $1,000 for the
guilty party who is supposed to have
put matches in the grain. Sunday we
held a gigantic anti-war demonstra-
tion here and more than 5000 people
attended,
eff we could be about a million
strikers and turn the sab-cat loose In
Utah and leave a sticker where any
thing happens / think it wouldn't
make it so easy for the masters to
railroad men who are fighting for
labor" said letter signed &c. M.
Anderson, Sec, Minneapolis, 9-14-15,"
and addressed to William D. Haywood
former. general secretary of the l. w.
w, who was convicted at Chicago.
A letter signed civilian Weyh,
Sec, Stockton" and addressed to
"Bert Kelley, Sec, Hoquiam, Wash,
said:
"The weather is very dry and hot
here and we are all excited over the
numerous fires in our town, eight and
ten a day, and just think, the |. w.
w. hall is not insured
From Sacramento, May 90, 1915,
Lambert is said to have written to
John Pancner: "Things are pretty
tough. The boys in Stockton are hav-
ing all kinds of trouble with the
bosses. Trouble is there is not
enough at work to make the cat eff
fective.'
"Tell the boys we've got hold of the
tail Of California's goat-yours for
the O. B. U.," Lambert is alleged to
have written to G. ]. Bourg from Sac
ramento in June, 1915.
"The 0. B. U.," or zone big union,'
ganization, government investigators
said
Referring to certain "good jobs"
credited to spies, c. L. Lambert, who
was convicted at Chicago, in a letter
alleged to have been written to the
Latin Branch of the I. w. W., in San
Francisco in August, 1915, suggested
printing sticker reading: "The Ger
man spies will continue their work
until Ford and Suhr are free"
H. D. Suhr and Richard Ford were
convicted of the murder of E. I. Man.
well, district attorney of Yuba county,
Cal, in connection with the hop diots
in 1914, and sentenced to life impris
onment.
A letter alleged to have been sent
to Haywood by Lambert June %,
1915, referring to the cutting of
wages said: "The only outfits that
have not taken advantage of this hard
spell is the oil companies; there is
too many opportunities for good sabo
in the fields"