The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-08
DECLARES THAT GERMANS HELP
 ALONG l. w. w.
Assistant U. s. Attorney General Pays His Re- speCtS to Members
 of That Order.
ARE NOT IN THE ARMY
Speaker Declares That the Members Have Set Fire to the Spruce
 Forests.

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 JACKSON, Miss, May '. - Or ganized violence of Industrial Work CTS of the World was described and denounced by William c. Fitts, As sistant Attorney General of the United States. in an adress here last night before the Mississippi State Bar Association. Mir. Fits. whC has had charge of the Nationwide campaign against |. w. w. agita- tors and the prosecution of many leaders since the United States en- tered the war, declared the German government encourages spreading of the doctrines of sabotage in the United States, Russia and other al lied countries. Civil processes, ht said, are sufficient to catch the agi- tators, and martial law as proposed by bills in Congress is entirely un- necessary.
 The |. W. W. are related by thei, theories to International Reds, Bol- sheviki, and other revolutionists said Mr. Fitts and all "are making war, first on legitimate labor or ganizations and on the very social fabric which protects them and us.'
 MT. Fitts said he had extensive evidence that the l. w. W. have prevented the raising of crops by practicing sabotage in the planting sowing and reaping. They have put phosphorus balls in shocks of wheat, in bales of hay and in barns," he said. "They have de stroyed harvesting machinery and have destroyed mature fruit trees by driving copper nails into them below the surface of the ground.
 "They have destroyed mining ma chinery, especially in the copper mines and in the mines where the the war are mined or produced They have fired the forests, particu- larly the forests of spruce; that be- ing the wood essential for making airplanes. They have destroyed saws in saw-mills by driving pieces of steel or iron in the logs so as to to break the band saws and un- nerve the sawyers. They saw lum- Der shorter than standard lengths The I. w. w. have surrounded court houses and packed court rooms for the purpose of putting over
 
 session of railroad trains and as saulted 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 beg-bugs in beds. They plant trees upside down. shock grain with the heads down, hoe up potato vines instead of weeds, bruise ap- ples and other fruit in packing They remove units from carefully adjusted machinery, misplace and omit parts of copy in printing offices and put foreign substances in canned goods. "No man can be an l. w. w. who possesses as much as $50 in mon- ey or property, or who has perma- nent employment, or who becomes a soldier or a sailor of any country
 "They view with alarm the pre- paration of the country to resist it's foreign enemies. because they not only would gladly witness the triumph of those enemies but also because they do not want the coun- try to be prepared to meet and stamp out the anarchy which they intend to foment from within. All their communications begin with the words. Dear Comrade,' and end with the words, Yours, for the Rev olution.' While our precious boys are freely pouring their youth on the battlefields of France. the Ad- ministration is bringing to bear and bravely, every orderly process of the law for the suppression oi this propaganda and the eradication of this poison. If the present stat utes. intended for fairly decent peo- ple. cannot reach these devils, then Congress. which is neither back ward nor pussyfooted, will pass laws which will catch them"