I. W.W. LEADERS SENTENCED
CONSPIRACY AGAINST AMERICA'S
'WAR PROGRAMME. San Francisco, January 17. ~ Forty-six I.W.W. leaders have been found guilty in.the United States District Court of conspiracy against tho Government's war programme. : T}ie I.W.W. leaders were sentenced to imprisonment for from ono to ten years. Three have not' yet been sentenced. ,
A Chicago message states that a national strike of organised Labour will be proclaimed next Fourth of July if Thomas Mooiiey is not given a new trial.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
[Thomas Mooney was sentenced to death for mnrdcr in connection with a dynamite outrage in San' Francisco. It is declared by American newspapers that his guilt was beyond doubt, but a very powerful ■ agitation was made in certain quarters of the Labour movement for his release, and finally he was reprieved and the sentence was commuted to a term of imprisonment.]
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 101, 23 January 1919, Page 5
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141I.W.W. LEADERS SENTENCED Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 101, 23 January 1919, Page 5
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