Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-12
v. v. WAS URGED
TO Instruction
Pamphlet Read at Chicago
Trial Called for Seizure
IS of Industries.
INSULT TO PRESIDENT

CHICAGO, May lion adjournment
tonight Of the trial of liz Industrial
Workers Of the World, charged with
seditious conspiracy, the government
had virtually completed Introduction of
printed matter seized during raids last
year on l. W. W. headquarters in half
score Of cities throughout the United
Estates. Monday, 1t was announced, the
prosecution plans to read into the rec
ord matter from the private corre-
spondence files of the leaders of the
Organization, seized during the same
raids.
The story of vision which came to
Harrison George, defendant, and
his cabinet in flight, while the 1. w. w.
rose up as saviors of the world, was
read into the record at today's session
by counsel for the government. 1t Is
charged that the narrative. of which
the vision is the theme, was given wide
circulation during last summer as
part of the anti-war propaganda with
which members of the organization are
charged. In the vision, Americas in
dustrial structure was pictured as tum-
bling like a house of blocks as the
result Of I. w. w. sabotage against
great producing plants.
Instruction Urged.
Workers Of all lands, arouse!" exhorted
the printed version Of the vision" Con
scrfption is a challenge. We call upon
nations to meet conscription or declara-
tons OF war by general strikes and insur-
rection- We call upon you in that hour
to seize control Of all industries Break
your chains! Assert your power"
Mobilization is crippled more and more
as the days pass" the pamphlet contin-
ued. after asserting the I. w. W. had
been deluged with pledges Of support and
that world strikes were about to occur.
Federal officials are in a panic and the
rich are fleeing from the country in pri-
vate yachts Through sabotage hundreds
have ceased. to turn, cities are dark and
troops are dfsbanding for lack of food.
The President and his cabinet leave
secretly on yacht for parts unknown:
the Senate fades away"
Government attorneys declare the ar
ticle was in effect promise of re-
suits that would be obtained if the
war against the war; were properly
conducted.
Remember Your Enemies"
IT there is any use for war, there is
. field for it far and wide on our con-
tinent. Our enemy is powerful and we
know who our enemy is" Frank K
Nebeker, special prosecutor. read to
the jury. IF you have created weapons
to kill. remember your real enemy is
the capitalist class"
world over. and If the federal govern
ment with its wild idea of Industrial or
military conscrfption thinks 1t can stop
the efforts Of the I. w. W.-the men
who mine the ore. hew the lumber and
harvest the wheat-it has another
guess coming" one piece of anti-war
propaganda declared.
why not ask the lumberjack?" was
the heading of an article in an official
organ of August 8, 1917, in which au-
nations aircraft program would be
delayed a year unless a strike in the
northwest lumber districts were settled
mission that we have tied an up 1 the pro- ao-
gram, said the article which was pre-
serted yesterday. SIS
And to miners. Woodrow Wilson
says. If you slacken or fail. armies and
viohs notice ~ members presented by
the government Right you are,
Woody! When the cat (sabotage) sits
on the pickhandle, brass buttons must
edo Not Salute Flag"
The patriotic I. W. W. member does
not salute the flag" said one paper.
He slows down production by practic-
ing sabotage He proves his loyalty
by Intelligent rebellion"
A. late as September 1, just before
the governments nationwide raid, the
membership was informed through
solidarity that 1.-The future now be-
longs to labor, and no power on earth
can make it otherwise"
The sky is bright with the red MORN
ing of freedom. Time will prove that
more history was made in Bisbee, Ariz..
in al h. AL
swept hills of France the paper as
serted.
A resolution drawn up by the general
executive board opposing war was
placed In the records over objection of
counsel for the defense. who declared
there was no evidence showing it was
adopted last July as contended by the
prosecution.