Sullivan

The defendant was convicted of criminal syndicalism. He appeals from the judgment pronounced thereon, and from the order denying’ his motion for a new trial.- The information is substantially in the language of the statute. It charges the defendant with a violation of several inhibitions of the law known as the Criminal Syndicalism Act. The information contains but one count.

[1] Complaint is made that the court committed prejudicial error in disallowing challenges to the jurors Eankin and Morstad. Eankin testified that he had formed an opinion as to whether the Industrial Workers of the World is a lawful and peaceable organization. That he based his opinion upon newspaper statements, some literature purporting to be of the I. W. W., which a hired man had shown him, and also statements made by this man about the organization to him and to other men. Morstad stated that he had an opinion on the question as to whether the Industrial Workers of the World advocate and teach violence and terrorism, based on information he had seen in the public press and pamphlets which he understood were issued by the I. W. W., and also upon statements of persons claiming to tell the facts from their…