[704] Christian Science Monitor, October 4, 1918.
[705] The preamble is printed in full in The World (Oakland, Cal.), October 18, 1918, p. 3. (Reprinted from the British Columbia Federationist, Sept. 27, 1918, article by W. Francis Ahern, Australian correspondent.) Mr. Ahern gives a detailed description of the structure of the new union and shows that in this respect, also, it follows the American I. W. W. very closely. Other meetings in furtherance of this project are reported to have been held in the fall of 1918 in Brisbane and Melbourne. (Ibid.) This recrudescence of militant industrialism in Australia appears to be an indirect outcome of the defeat of the Labor party in the federal election of 1917.
[706] 65th Cong., 2nd sess., S. 4471.
[707] Ibid. The bill was amended by the Judiciary committee and favorably reported to the House.
[708] 65th Cong., 2nd sess., S. 4471. The one hundred odd members of the I. W. W., who were indicted in 1917, were indicted, tried and convicted, not under any specific anti-sabotage, "criminal syndicalism" or unlawful associations statute, but under section 4 of the "Espionage Act" of June 15, 1917, and sections 6, 19 and 37 of the Criminal Code of the United States. (The United States of America vs. William D. Haywood et al., no. 6125 in the District Court of the U. S., Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division.)
[709] Acts of 1919, ch. 188. Approved May 5, 1919.
[710] Acts of 1917, ch. 145. Approved Mar. 14, 1917.
[711] Act no. 139.
[712] Acts of 1917, ch. 215. Approved Apr. 13, 1917.
[713] Approved Jan. 30, 1918.