THE DAILY STAR-MIRROR
VOLUME VI
MOSCOW, LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1917
NUMBER 48
will fight
CRIMINAL
SABOTAGE!
Mahow May be the Center of Test Case of Dras
State Law
WHAT SYNDICALISM MEANS
Federal, State and County Authorities
Combine to Protect Society
Against I. W. W. Menace
It Beams likely that the Idaho law
against criminal syndicalism will be
tested in the case of G. S. Mahow, arrested at Bovill in connection with the
I. W. W. troubles there. The matter
is now under consideration by the federal, state and county authorities.
Criminal syndicalism is defined by
the statute enacted by the Idaho legislature (last winter and approved
March 14, 1917, as the doctrine that
advocates crime, sabotage, violence or
unlawful methods of terrorizing as a
means of accomplishing industrial or
political reforms.
Stiff Penalty Provided
The law recites the various ways in
which a person may be guilty of this
crime and fixes the penalty at not
more than 10 years in the penitentiary
or a fine of $5000. The statute is
sweeping in its provisions.
Mahow is still in the county jail and
will be held pending investigations into
his case. He was in communication today with the I. W. W. headquarters in Spokane today and his
lawyer is expected on any train,
is hinted that Mahow is held on advice
to his services from the United States district
against Charles Henderson by Sheriff
Campbell charging him with vagrancy.  A warrant for his arrest was issued at the attorney's office. Henderson is held in the county jail pending preliminary hearing. 