The evening bulletin., 1894-09-12
DEBS' TRIAL RESUMED
Superintendent Dunlap of the
Rock Island TeStifieS.
THE HISTORY OF THE STRIKE.
He Heard the Mobs Jeer at IDJunctions
and Saw Employees Threatened by the
Rioters Thirteen Witnesses Testified
For the Govern ment During the Day.
Discussion Between Attorneys.

American Railway union contempt
cases was resumed yesterday before
Judge Woods, in the United States
court. The first witness was General
Superintendent Charles Dunlap of the
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific rail
road. Mr.. Dunlap testified as to inter
ruption of traffic on his road, and the
delaying of mail trains.
The court ruled that the witness
could testify only as to what he actually
saw, and could not use information pre-
pared i'll typewriter form which was
received from employees under him. He
heard members of mobs on different oc-
casions jeer at the government and
curse the WOOds-Grosscup injunction i'll
unmoasured terms. He also was a wit
ness to the stopping of trains, and heard
employees threatened by rioters with
personal violence.
''Do you think there would have been
any trouble i'll moving traius if there
had been no threats of violence? asked
Attorney Walker.
81 do hot. Just as soon as we got
protection we had no trouble i'll filGug
the places of strikers and in operating
our trains"
Mr.. Dunlap said that in 26 years ex-
perlenCe he had never seen strike un-
accompanied by violence.
On CrOsS-eXaminatiOn Mr.. Gregory
tried to elicit information in regard to
the methods of the General Managers
association. Counsel for the govern
ment objected on the ground of irrelev.
ance upon which Mr. Gregory made a
long speech, in which he pointed out
that he would attempt to prove the ex-
isCence of combination among the
general managers to reduce wages,
which would justify a combination of
laborers to resist such methods.
Throughout the day the attorneys for
the defense continued to object TO the
evidence as introduced by the govern
mCnt, and for some reason Judge Woods
sustained them much oftener than he
did during the earlier days of the trial
In all IL witnesses testified for the
government during the day, most Of the
evidence adduced dealing with the
scenes of violence in and about the city
during the strike. Towards the close of
the afternoon the counSul for the govern
ment got down 10 the actual work of
connecting Mr.. Debs and his associates
with the iawlessness by introducing the
telegraph messenger boys who delivered
various kilograms previously put in
evidence at the offices of the American
Railway union. In all but three cases
the messages were either signed by the
doorkeeper or Mr. Benedict, the type
writer. In three cases one of the
messenger boys said he had delivered
kilograms to Mr.. Debs personally and
he had reoeipted for them. The delivery
sheet was not in evidence, however, bat
will be presented later in the trial.
W. Z. Baker, ez-president OF the
worlds Columbian exposition, told how
he and large number of other passen-
gers were tied up for II days at Living
ston, Mon, and Of sending telegram
to Mr.. Debs, which was indorsed by the
local A. h. u. leader, one Mr.. Kelly.
He had never received any answer to
his appeal for assistance to Mr.. Debs,
but he said he heard that Kelly had got
orders TO move the train if possible, but
he did not know this of his own knowl-
edge.
j. N. Scales, general superintendent
Of the Mobile and Ohio railroad, another
witness, identified the telegraphic CORE
spondence which he had with Debs re-
garding the raising of the boycott on
his road. He had wired Mr.. Debs in
the first place, telling him that the No
bile and Ohio road ran no Pullman cars
and requesting him to do what lay in
his power to prevent the strike.
The next telegram bore the name of
Debs and asked if the Mobile and Ohio
road belonged to the General Managers
association. Upon Mr.. Scales assur-
ance by wire that it did not, telegram
was sent asking Scales to call on Dwyer
the local representative of the Amer
can Railway union, and make arrange
ments with him regarding the calling
off of the strike. This, Mr.. Scales testi-
fed, that he did, and read the agree
ment which he had with Dwyer. The
kilograms were all placed in evidence.
One OF the attorneys for the govern
ment said that if the kilograms could
be positively traced TO Debs in this case
his directing hand in the strike would
be positively established
The feature of the days proceedings
was a discussion brought about by At
torney Gregory, in which he scored
the General Managers association.
Gregory said:
"If we can get the witnesses to testi-
fly and the court will admit the evil
dence, think we can show that this
General Managers association was pre-
pairing to reduce the wages of the en-
ployes on the roads which its members
represented. They were seeking to do
this by a combination against labor,
and this was the real cause of the
strike. From one end of this country
to the other we have heard people de-
nouncing this sympathetic strike. Yet
Judge Cooley, in his address to the
American Bar association, says that no
board of arbitration-and add that no
injunction--can compel man to work il
they do not want to. Now these employees
had a ri zht 10 omit work No ininnction