Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-12
RIOTS INEVITABLE.
Where the Strike Is There Also
Is Turbulence.
sosAYs SUPERINTENDENT DUNLAP.

And Seems to Relieve 1t a Rule without
Exceptions Continuation of the Debs
Trial Lively Controversies Between
lawyer and Judse-The Governments
Position Stated More Testimony About
That Blue island Meeting.
CHICAGO. Sept. 1s-The resumption of
the A. r. L. case in Judge Woods court
attracted a large crowd and the court
room was packed as full as was COM
Portable. From the testimony intro
duced it looks like the government in
tended to prove the truth of the substances
OF Judge jenkins definition of a strike
that it is always a riot. The first thing on
the boards, however, was some talk about
Il subpoena duces tecum served on A. r. u
people for the production of certain books
containing the record of that organization
during the strike The defense said it
would announce later what portion of the
subj oena it would obey and to what part
it would object. The first witness called
was Charles Dunlap. superintendent of
the Rock Island railway.
Defense Gets Favorable Ruling.
A. the beginning of Dunlap's examina-
ton Geeting won a ruling. Walker who
was interrogating Dunlap. asked him as
TO the extent of the delay and obstruction
to which the Rock Island trains had been
subjected. To aid him in his answers he
referred to some papers he had with him.
containing reports of other officials of the
company. To this Gee,ing objected on the
ground that the witness might tell only
what he had seen or knew of his own per-
sonsl knowledge. JuiCe Woods sustained
Il 'etIng and refused to permit Dunlap
to tell what had been reported TO him of
the trouble at Rock Island.
Intimidatio Too General a Term.
Replying 20 Walker, Superints ndeut
Dunlap went on 10 describe the strike on
the Rock Island from July 2 on, and its eff
feet on the company's business. Mai
TT aims and trains carrying interstate com
inerce were delayed for several days.
What was the cause of the delays"
Intimidation" began Dunlap, but
GeeIing got in another successful objec-
ton. Intimidation is too general-let
him tell what he saw" interposed Geet-
ing. and Judge Woods instructed the wit
ness TO speci ically state what he saw of
actual hindrance TO traffic. Dunlap re-
Sltc,A lIS COCntcNeu with the
strike on the Rock Island, with which de-
, tails the public is already familiar. He
said that some of the men in the mob
were employees of the Rock Island who
were on strike.
Somethin. That Is Inevitable.
Have you had extensive experiences
with railroad strikes and boycottss'' asked
Walker. Il have" replied Dunlap.
g 4 ONf railroad -riL nd horco,.-
generally followed by rioting and vio-
lence?'' They are"
$40 you recall any strike which was not
followed by violence and intimidation, ~
Il do not recall any strike which was not
followed by trouble"
Walker asked: Had there been no in
timidation or violence would there have
been any delay in the movement of trainss''
| Geeting objected, but the court permit.
ted the witness TO answer, saying: The
point here Is whether these railroads did
not run trains because of violence aud
intimidation and not because they could
not get men"
Men Only Wanted Protection.
! Dunlap replied: Had there been no
violence md intimidation we would have
had little or no delay. This is proved by
tie fact that when We received protection
we found plenty of men to operate our
trains" Gregory cross-examined Dunlap,
and the first question he pat to the wit
ness related to his previous statement con-
corning violence as an iuvariable accom-.
paniment of strikes
WAS there a strike OF the tele-raphers
on the Rock Island some time agof" asked
Gregory. There was.''
9" Is there any violence accompanying
that striker at was reported to me
that ut several points assaults were made
on The operators