The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-26
what position does Worden hold in the
general union?"
81 don't know that he held any office. I"
"He was delegateP"


general union?"
81 don't know that he held any office. "
''He was deegate?"
Yes; hut that is not an Office"
HE is district organizer?"
Il could not say whether he is or not.
don't know"
President Hughes could give no idea of
the mem bership of the local union.
you came on subpena?" said Gen
eral Hart on cross-examination.
Eyes, sir, Ahearn served it and came
on pass"
The pass was the same as that of Silva,
except that it read "to account of witness
for Southern Pacific Company" Mr..
Hughes had another pass good for len
days
"Was there anything under the A. r. u.
that compelled the mediation committee
or any official to do an unlawful act?"
"Emphatically no. SIR" replied the wit
ness. before the attorneys for the prosecu.
tion could get their objections in.
Carroll Cook objected that the duties of
the committee should be proved by the
written constitution. General Hart at
this rose to argue the point He said the
A. r. .. was the aggregation of labor as
against aggregate capital. ITO associate,
in other words" ne cried, 1.-The labor of
the United States together for the purpose
Of protecting the laDoring man against the
power of wealth. The association was
merely for the mutual benefit of the labor
ing people and Its object was to
dignity and uphold the labor unions
OF the United States and to pro-
tect them against the possibility of q
reduction of wages to such an exten
as they would not be able to properly
maintain themselves. That is their only
purpose, both as shown in the constitu-
ton OF the organization as understood by
Mr.. Hughes as president of the organiza-
ti0n and by the committee in Sacramento,
There is nothing in the fact that these
men belong TO society unless that society
has some principle in it of virtue or of
vice. To say man is guilty Of commit
ting homicide simply because he belongs
TO the Masonic fraternity and because
some Mason that belonged to the same
lodge has committed crime would not be
accepted In court. The testimony would
be of no value unless the association of
these men together amounted to a con-
spracy. They put upon the stand wit
ness to prove by him that Knox, Mullen
and Compton were members of the media
tion committee. The constitution provides
what the mediation committee shall do.
To interpret the Office by its name were to
say they were some intermediate body
between labOrers with grievances on the
one side and employers supposed to be
guilty of these grievances on the other.
That would be the proper work of me-
diation committee. Congress itself has
taken notice of arbitration as plan for
all alleged grievances. That was the OBJ.
ject of the committee. The prosecution
would insist that the defendants in this
case were actuated by some intangible
ulterior object not in view behind
the written constitution. l am will.
ing TO open up the entire question
That there was a union among the
honest =laboring classes who constituted
this lodge or this union or this association
which would justify the commission o.
any unlawful act or crime we deny, sc
that til g fact that Knox, Mullen and Comp
ton are members of this committee is sim.
ply another mark of the esteem and conf
dence in which they were. held by theil
cola borers. We shall insist in this court
that the fact that these men are mem bers
of the mediation committee shall not be
permitted to stand bold and alone, but il
shall be known to the public and the
world what that fact means. We shall &C
beyond the written constitution. There
seems to be an idea which has induced
men to come here and make deposition