Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-04
CALLS |. ". ". KIN
OF BOLSHEV|K|
Assistant Attorney General De
clares Diabolical Work is En-
couraged by German
Government.

Jackson, Miss, May 3-~Organised
violence of Industrial Workers of the
World was described and denounced by
William G.. Fits, assistant attorney
general of the United States, in an address
last night before the Mississippi State
Bar Association. MIR. Fits, who has
had charge of the nationwide campaign
against w W agtators and the prosccu
ton of many leaders since the United
States entered The war, declared the Ger
man government encourages spreading
of the doctrines Of sabotage in the United
States, Russia and other allied countries.
Civil processes, he saId, are sufficient To
catch the agitators, and martial law na
proposcd by bills III Congress ~ entirely
unnecessary
The I W W are related by their
theories to international Reds, l{olshe-
wiki and other rcvolutlonlsts. said Mr..
tltts and all are mak ing war, first on
legitimate labor nrgani cations and on the
very social fabric which protects them
and us
Mr. Fits said he had extensive evl-
dcncr that the I W W have prevented
The raising of crops hv practlcing sabotage
in the planting. sowing and reaPlng
They have put phosphorus balls IN shock
Of wheat. m bales of hav and IN barns,
he said ''Thev have DESTROYED harvesting
machinery and plarcd dynamite IN the
shcafs hcy have DESTROYED mature
fruit trees hv driving copper nails INTO
thcm Glow the surface OF the ground
- hey nave DESTROYED mining ma
chucrv, especially IN the copper mines
and IN the mines where the minerals
essential to the conduct of the war are
mincd or prodrccd They have tired
the forests particularly the forests of
snru = that being the wood essential
fot making Mrplancs They have d'e
qtrovcd saws ~ the Raw mills bv driving
,.Ic cs of steel ~ iron IN The logs So as 20
break the hani saws aud unn"rve the
sawvcrs They qaw lumber shorter than
standard lengths The " " havo
surrounded court houses and Parked
court rooms for the purpose of putting
ovrr ther plans They have taken pos
SESSION az railroad trans aud assaulted
and murdered the tram crows lh"v
m,sscud freight, misplace genal ltRhts
and put emery dust 81 sand ~ journal
hnvcs On railpad cars
Members 80 the organization place
forc,Fn Substances IN tood III hotels and
restaurants break ,ruckcrv dip table
forks ~ crude oil usc stink pnts IN dining
rooms and put hcd bugs ~ beds They
plant tr,c4 upz,de DOWN. shock gram
with the heads down hoe up potato wines
instead If weeds huIIsc apples and other
fruit IN packing They remove nuts
from carefully adjusted machinery. ms
placc ana omit parts If 'copy ~ printing
olhccs and rut foreign substance ~
canned goods
~ man can ho an w " who
,,,,.s,sscs as much as so in money -
property. or who has permanent cmplol
ment 81 who becomes a soldier or
sailor of any country
They view with alarm tho p~para'ton.
of thc country to rC@lst its foreign enc
fules because they not oulN would gladly
witness tho triumph of those cncmiCe tut
also because thry DO not want the country
IL IL prepared "a meet and stamp ont
The anarchy which they intend 10 iotncnt
from within All thciv communications
hccln with the words Dear comradc,
ami cnd with tho words, ours for the
revolution While our precious boys
arc irecl, pouring their Youth ON the
hattlchcds az France, tho administration
is bringing ~ bear and hravrly, every
orderly process 81 the Law for tho sup.
rrr,s,ion 81 this propaganda and the
eradication of thus poison II the present
statutes intended for fairly decent people
cannot reach these devils then Congress
which IS neither backward nor pussy
footed. wii pass laws winch will catch
them