Erickson

On the twenty-second day of May, 1923, the defendant Alfred Erickson, while going through the town of Marysville on Ms way to Feather River canyon, was taken from the tender of a passenger train on the Western Pacific Railroad by a night watchman, searched, found to be carrying, an I. W. W. membership card and was thereupon arrested under the syndicalism law of this state (Stats. 1919, p. 281), and on the twenty-ninth day of May, 1923, an information was filed against him by the district attorney of the county of Yuba by which information the defendant was charged with “then and there being, did then and there willfully and unlawfully and feloniously and knowingly did become and was a member of an organization, society, club and assemblage of persons known and designated, as the ‘Industrial Workers of the World’ and sometimes known and referred to as the ‘I. W. W.’ which said organization, society, club, and assemblage of persons, was then and there organized and assembled to advocate, teach, aid and abet criminal syndicalism as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership and control and affecting political changes,” etc.

The defendant was tried upon the information…