POISONED FOOD.
TRAITOROUS I.W.W. ACTION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, October 25. At Sacramento an extraordinary tale of I.W.W. ruthlessness was told by a witness, the former right-hand man of William Hayward, leader of the Syndicalists, in the trial of ten I.W.W.’s under the Californian Syndicalism law. He said the org'anlisation conspired to send poisoned tinned foods to Americari soldiers in France during the war. A large Chicago packing-house had 400 I.W.W.’s and part of their work was the testing of tinned goods before shipment. The I.W.W.’s instead of condemning bad goods, would pass them. Witness said: “We wanted to cripple the packers and we opposed tlie war. We used to say ‘Let them poison Uncle Sam’s damned gunners.’ Workers also drove nails into cases so as to pierce tins.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1922, Page 3
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130POISONED FOOD. Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1922, Page 3
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