Thornton

Under the provisions of subdivision 4 of section 2 of the act defining the crime of criminal syndicalism and sabotage and providing penalties and punishment therefor (Stats. 1919, p. 281), defendant was charged by an indictment returned by the grand jury of Kern County with having committed the following offense, to wit: The said Felix Thornton, on or about the third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, at Delano, in the said county of Kern, state of California, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, knowingly, and feloniously become and remain a member of an organization known and designated as the “Industrial Workers of the World,” and sometimes known and designated and referred to as the “I. W. W.,” and sometimes known and designated and referred to as the “One Big Union,” and did then and there willfully, unlawfully, knowingly, and feloniously organize and assist in organizing said organization known and designated as the “Industrial Workers of the World,” and sometimes known and designated and referred to as the “I. W. W.,” and sometimes known and referred to as the “One Big Union,” and which said organization, society, group, and assemblage of persons…