The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-04-11
WOBBL|ES,IW0N'! T.
HAVE, IH0FSTEDE
DISLOYAL ATTORNEY WHO SER
WE'D JAIL SENTENCE HERE,
WAS REJECTED

Word comes from Spokane that
Ed. Hofstede, who served jail SEN
tence of four months here for dis
loyalty and interfering with the
draft, has been rejected by the |. w.
w. to which organization he offered
his services as attorney. Previous
reports from Spokane told of Hof-
stede going to Spokane from his home
in Orofino and offering his services
as an attorney to the l. w. w. who
were being driven from Spokane or
were arrested there. Hofstede ad-
mitted that disbarment proceedings
against him are pending and the case
is to be up before the supreme court
at Boise this week. A story comes
from Spokane now that the l. w. w.
rejected Hofstede's offer to act as
their attorney A man who is too
disloyal for the 1. w. w. is indeed in
hard straits. The Spokane story
follows:
Rejecting the proffered services of
E. Hofstede, an Idaho attorney con-
yicted of seditiOus utterances and I'M
able, for the time being, to secure To-
cal legal talent to represent them, %
members of the l. w. w. captured in
the police raids on "wobbly" hang
outs in Spokane, appeared without |
counsel on charges Of vagrancy in
police court today.
All pleaded not guilty, but each one
admitted membership in the I. w. W.
one of the principal allegations upon
which the citys charges of vagrancy
are based.
Some declared themselves loyal
citizens of the United States, who
had offered their services to Uncle
Sam in the war, and a few denied
belief in the more radical conten-
tions and teachings of their organi-
cation, but most of them defended
the principles of the l. w. w. propa-
ganda that has long been troubling
the industries Of the Pacific north
west,
At the opening of the trial, the de-
PENDANTS notified the court and Pros
ecuting Attorney Hooper that they
had decided against employing as
their counsel Attorney Hofstede, who
last Saturday appeared for them, and
secured a continuance until today.
S75szsss.. $50
Donovan Approached
. Mrs. Blair Cairns, who, beside Dor
~ Lloyd is the only woman defend
ant, endeavored this morning to Sc
cure the services of Attorney w. c.
Donovan, it was learned, but Dono-
van refused to appear as cousel IN
the matter and it was understood
that the prisoners were preparing to
carry their cases to the superior
court in all instances of conviction be-
fore the police court.
A huge stack of evidence, made up
of the characteristic songs of the /.
w. W., its literature and samples of
its radical teachings was introduced !
by City Prosecutor Hooper.
Another interesting bit of evidence
was a COPY of the Benewah county
Udaho) Jury list, with information
on the back of it concerning the man.
ner in which the prospective jurors
could be communicated with.
1t was in Benewah county that
VIM NJ Nelson, convicted few days
ago at Occur d'Alene on a criminal
syndicalism charge, was arrested.
Nelson was formerly secretary of the !
St. Maries local of the l. w. w. ,
Aside from charging membership
in the l. w. w. against today's de-
PENDANTS, the city charges that they
were not employed at the time of
their arrests, that they had been lott
ering about the city and had no set S
tied place of abode. f
''If / am a vagrant, then every {
member of the Spokane police force t
is a vagrant," w. t. Ward, secretary /
of a construction workers branch OF i
the l. w. W., holly declared when he 7
took the stand. a
81 had about $50, had been work. a
ing steadily since in January" He :
admitted that the work had been for
the |. w. w.
Peter Martin, who admitted he had
distributed some literature for the I.
w. w. in the past, declared he had
been out of the hospital about two
days before the raids.
~ am an American citizen" said
J. w. Parker, another prisoner, "and
r friod RI enlist in the enpineers'
corps of the United States army,
but was rejected. do not believe
in the destruction of property, as is
taught in the I. w. w. literature"
Radical is Found
Tom Davis, an organizer, was one
# the most radical in the group.