Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-31
SOLDIER TELLS OF.
 SABOTAGE IN ARMY.
oBy Review Leased wire)

CHICAGO, May 30-Private Frank Wormkee, alias Frank Woods. testified today at the trial of 112 Industrial Workers Of the World that he was asked by members of the organization at the Minneapolis headquarters to teach sabotage in the American army. This sabotage, Wormkee said he was informed, could include placing a for eign substance in food to cause illness and the cutting up of clothing
 Wormkee's tale of violence by mem- bers of the organization spanned a period of nearly two years during a part of which he worked as an organ lzer in the harvest fields, the big lum- Der camps, the shipping districts and the orange belt of California He ad- mitted acts Of sabotage while an l. w. W. delegate, and said he received I. w. W. literature in at least one instance after he entered the Jefferson Barracks.
 checlered Career
 In substantiation of government charges that the l. W W. taught the doctrines cf sabotage and used it in inc alleged conspiracy 70 block the war program. Wormkee unfolded his own checkered career. told of desert ing from the Colorado national guard, cf enlisting last summer at Minot, x. n.. under a fictitious name to obtain release preferred by state attorneys and testified he as a delegate had been instructed to encourage violence.
 In the big lumber camps Of Wash ingtOn and Oregon, Wormkee and other members drove spikes into logs, well concealed under the bark. to wreck mill machinery, he testified. In Oklahoma spikes were driven into fields to break grain cycles and at least one member whom he named as James Edgars. carried a bottle of liquid in the Montana lumber districts that would cause fire when thrown upon wood.
 Intimidate Officer
 Tt was the general practice of the organization to plant grain shocks up- side down." testified Wormkee, appear ing as a government witness.
 At one time in South Dakota when I was working in a garden l practiced sabotage by planting lettuce and other seeds so that when the sprouts came out design reading Industrial Work CTS of the World would appear
 He testified that during the out breaks in Oklahoma and Kansas. har- vest fields last year. the authorities were intimated and in one case the sheriff himself placed in jail, freight trains were frequently commandeered there as well as in California. that there were numerous fires in and atout Aberdeen, s. D., and that when the barn of the police chief burned, 'the I. w. w. modestly took credit"
 He testified that while secretary of ffe hrench at San Pedro, Calf, he attempted to organize longshoresmen with view 10 shut down export of munitions. The organization was 100 per cent on the Atlantic and 90 per cent complete on the Pacific" he said he was told.
 Advised to Resist Draft
 Under questioning of Chief Prosecu- tor Nebeker. and Special Prosecutor Porter. Wormkee said members were advised to resist the draft and com init sabotage among big war indus tries
 When necessary to bring about re- suits because of interference by authorities in small communities we packed the iails," he said.
 At Ava. Okla. and Sheridan. Wye. we battle shipped the jails. or tore out the interiors, using radiators as battering rams.'
 He said in one California orange dis
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