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I.W.W. FIGHT

Burning of Buildings Follow Circulation
of Stickers Declaring
That Slayers "Must Be Free"

Idustrial Workers Organization
Starts World-Wide Boycott on
California Canned Products

BY INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
SACRAMENTO, September 1.--
Numerous incendiary fires, resulting
in thousands of dollars of loss, have
occurred in the grain fields and commercial
establishments of the Sacramento
valley and Central California
this summer. Currently these fires
are attributed to the I.W.W. or itinerant
members of the organization
throughout the valley.

The basis for the charge is the fact
that hundreds of thousands of stickers
covertly advocating reprisal for
the life imprisonment of Ford and
Suhr have been pasted on the various
highways and byways of California
as well as abroad. Ford and
Suhr are in Folsom prison for the
murder of District Attorney E.T.
Manwell of Marysville in the Wheatland
hopfiled riots of August, 1913.
"WE DON'T CARE"

When asked if the I.W.W. were
responsible for these incendiary fires,
Secretary C.L. Lambert of local No.
71 of the I.W.W. of Sacramento
said:

"We don't care what the papers
print about the organization in regard
to the incendiary fires. But Ford
and Suhr must be free."

The first petition of character for
the pardon of Ford and Suhr was
presented to Governor Johnson in
February __ about six months ago.

In March Governor Johnson met
labor leaders, I.W.W. members
and others in the Mills building in
San Francisco, who urged that Ford
and Suhr be pardoned.

STATMENT IS ISSUED

Following this hearing, the Sacramento
headquarters of the I.W.W.
issued a circular letter, sent broadcoast
to "all local and camp delegates,
Nulletin No. 64," which said in
part:

The petition for pardon of fellow-
workers Ford and Suhr was
placed in the hands of Governor
Johnson on March 5. What action
will he taken in the matter
will very likely depend on your
action during the coming summer
on the job.

The letters told of a boycott declared
on all California canned goods