Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-08-06

continues Mfr. Harre According to letters seized by the government anfi read at the I. W. W trial in Chicago OH May g. ths BOIshevik in Russia and the I. W w. here were plotting together i'll seditious conspiracy tf1 take control of the industry of both nations. At the very time that they were launched on their enterprise to turn Russia and the great Russian people over to the Prussiar pIunder- bund, the BOlshevik leaders wrote let terS urging the immediate shipment of I. W. w. liferature to Russia One of the leading Bolshevill. in q letter dated August 25, I9I1, informed the | W. W. Ln America thaf they very soon expected to have a Russian adminis- tration of the IL. W w. To witness what an l. w. w administration means, behold Russia
 Tn their opposition to the war the I. ". W. have been daringly out spoken. Writing to William D. Hay good from Seattle, Wash. August ,, 1917, James Rowan, for the strike committee, declared: We have the good will of the German people here and We feel sure they are in sympathy with our cause. We do not call them Germans but refer to them as the others. We are going to carry our points if we have to stop every in dustry on the Pacific coast. We df1 not declare war and We have not con- sented to the working man giving up his liberties and being drafted
 ''Is it to be wondered at that the L W. W. strike committee felt justified in saying: We have the good will of the German people here and we feel that they are in sympathy with our cause' Could anyone possibly doubt that the l. W. W. did have the good will Of the Germans, whether here or in the German enpire2 The pertin- ent question is whether tha German interest stopped at the expression of mere good will. Tn the trial of the l. w. W's at Chicago, charged with se ditious conspiracy, evidence was intro duced on May |, 1918, showing that the monetary receipts of the I. W W swelled amazingly after the declara- tiOn of war, and at d ratio strikingly in proportion to it's increasing aetiy- ities to obstruct the war and oppose the selective draft. 4 statement show ed that from early in April, 1917, until September 1, 1917 the period cover ed by the indictment, the total re- ceipts at I. W. w. headquarters amounted to s271,220.5 50. The increase in receipts rose from S25 ,048S1 i'll April to s26 209 .26 in August. Initia- tion fee receipts in April amounted to S20, STOPS. The income from mys- | terious other sources was set down as s11, 1874 in April and st4103.62 in August. From what more than friendly interest came this generous increase of $6t. .760 in funds in five ! months? The government contends 1 it was almost wholly due to the I. W. 1 W.'s alleged disIoyal campaign. It is l known that agents of the German gov ernmenI weer never stinted in resour-
 ces for the prompting of various kinds of propaganda. spy work and de- struction, to the interest of their inl- i perial masters, and after the break ing off of diplomatic relations and the return to German of Count von l Berustorff. there is evidence that sums of vast proportions lad been left in this country for purposes which any 1 one may surmise. It was proved at
 the I. W W. trial at Chcago that, 1 following the entry of the United 1 States into the war the volume of l it's publishing business increased
 more than LOO per cent. Whose were l the funds that paid for these sud- denly increased demands for it's pubIi- l cations2 What factors were most in- 1 terested in spreading propaganda that provoed resistance to the draft, and ] advocated and executed sabotage, the
 fomenting of strikes and disorganrz- ation of industry?
 "Tn the light of the totally unpre- cedented increase in financial receipts
 by the I. w. w, there seems to he a
 significance in the boast: We have the good will of the German people.
 We feel sure they are in sympathy
 with our cause
 "So identical are their acts and methods, so parallel their marevolent
 program, that 1t is impossible to dis nns,llsn between rne war acts ana