The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-08-31
TWENTY YEARS In
FEDERAL PRISON
is SENTENCE OF
]. W. ". LEADERS
Haywood and Fourteen
Aides Given Long Terms
By Judge Lands

Chicago, Aug. William D.
Haywood, "uncrowned king" of the
Industrial Workers of the World,
and fourteen of his chief aides in the
conspiracy to oyerturn the American
war program were sentenced to
twenty years in the Federal peni-
tertiary at Fort LeayenWorth, Kan,
by federal Judge K. M. Lands here
late today.
Ten year sentences were imposed
upon 33 of the organization leaders,
five year sentences on 33, one year
and one day on IL defendants and
ten day sentences on two others.
Cases against Benjamin s. Scharger,
Chicago writer, and Pietro Nigra,
Spring Valley, Ill.,, were continued.
All sentences on the four counts
in the indictment will run concur
rently. Fines ranging from $4,000
on Haywood and his chief aides
down to $4,000 were imposed.
Ninety days is granted in which
to file a bill of exception and a stay
Of seven days in which to petition
AS Attorney Sees 1t. ~
cit is the closing chapter in AM
erica's biggest criminal case" said
Frank K. Nebeker. chief prosecutor.
eve are confident a new trial will
veer, chief counsel for the defense.
Before pronouncing sentence on
the defendants, Judge Lands re-
viewed at some length the salient
points in the governments case, lay
ing special stress on the l. w. w.
preamble declaring eternal war on
the employing class and denouncing
war with other nations; the meet
ing of the executive board after
America had entered the war at
which it was decided to expel mem
bers entering military service, and
later the concerted plan by strikes
and rebellion to block war measures.
In times of peace you have a
legal right to oppose. by free speech,
preparations for war. But when
war has been declared that wight
ceases forthwith" was the courts
closing remarks.
There was deep silence in The
courtroom as Haywood and his four
teen chief assistants were called oe-
fore the bar. AS. big Bill" arose
from his seat, a group of women
who had been weeping, started a
mild ovation which was quickly ST.
fenced. George Andreytchine, the
yOnIlS DLAAECsA lcbAAs JOGI WAIOS6 6bOlJAAy
career since his exile from Russia
for plotting a revolution is am out
standing phase OF the L w, W.. was
next called. AS he stepped forward
he smiled and blew a kiss to his
pretty bride who waved her hand
kerchief.
Then followed, Ralph Chaplin, an
other poet, smiling and confident and
Carl Ahlteen, Minneapolis. editor If
The Alarm pale and neryously
twisting his cravat.
10 the procession continued until
95 of the organizations chief dirac-
tors had been sentenced and led to
the county Jail.
Vincent st. John, who formerly
held Haywood's office Of general
secretary treasurer, was sentenced
to ten years at Leavenworth, J. A.
Mcdonald, Seattle publisher of a
radical paper was sentenced to Ten
years, while J. T. ("third rail red'')
Doran, g. western coast leader, and
Harrison George of Pittsburgh
whose printed vision Of President
Wilson and his cabinet in flight be-
fore an army of /. w. w: was an i'm
portant factor in the trial, received
sentences of five years each.
Reviews The Conspiracy.
For more than an hour, Judge
Lands, in the silence Of the humid
court room, whose doors and win
dows had been closed and locked,
with sharp direct sentences reviewed
the nationwide conspiracy against
the government and read excerpts
from Haywood's correspondence rel
alive to opposition to the war.
'Tn light of the evidence before
1t, the jury had no evanue Of escape
from the verdict Of guilty" the court
said.
81 don't mean" said Judge Lands
at another point in his statement
that the I. w. w. started out de-
liberately to aid Germany" he adj