The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-05
DEFENSE WILL
BEGIN TODAY
CoMPLAINANTS TESTIMONY
Is ABOUT ALL IN.
Saturdays Hearing in the Injuno-
tion Case of the d. L. q w.
Against the Striking Car Builders
Did Not Produce Any Exciting
Testimony Attachment Issued for
M. P. Flynn Who Was Not Present
to Testify-He Will Be Examined
Later.

Not much testimony Of any import
ance was brought out at Saturdays
hearing in the injunction proceedings
brought by the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western company against the
striking car builders. With the excep-
tion of the testimony of NJ f. Flynn.
proprietor of the Lackawanna Valley
house, and one or two other witnesses
the complainants case is closed.
Henry Moyle, of South Scranton, one
of the defendants, was examined when
court opened and testified to having
done picket duty in South Scranton.
Gus Winskey, of Moosic street, the next
witness, went to work at the car shops
after the strike was declared. on July
TO- he said, he was met by a number OF
the strikers. who told him they had
been sent by the union to prevent him
from working. He was met by a party
of strikers few days afterwards and
again told not to work, but was not
molested either time.
He couldn't identify any of the de-
PENDANTS, but said he was sure that the
men who met him We're strikers. Mr..
Newcomb. in the cross-eXamination,
elected the information that Winskey
had not worked at the shops for a
year before the strike, and sought to
prove by this that he was, therefore,
not in a position to know any of the
strikers.
HAAS WAS IN FEAR.
Joseph Haas, who went to work after
being on strike for about three weeks,
was met on the way to work one morn
ing by Campbell and Thompson, two
Of the defendants. Thompson told him
that he would kick him if he was not
his friend. Haas said he was constant
ly in fear of being thrashed.
Joseph Schultz, a young lad testified
Ia having been refused meat at Shaw's s
market. because his father was working
at the shops during the strike. Shaw.
the butcher, was called and denied
having ever waited on young Schultz.
He said he had never been waited upon
by any of the strikers and requested to
refuse the Schultz family meat.
Herbert Vaughan, of the firm OF
Vaughan & Sladc of Prescott avenue,
said that he had refused to sell Fuller
and Bailey goods because he was afraid
Of being bOyCotted.
A. A. Woodwork, general foreman at
the company's roundhouso. testified
that he was stopping before the strike
at the LackaWanna Valley house with
his wife and child. On May TO- he was
requested to leave by Proprietor Flynn
and did SO.
Mr.. Flynn was called, but did not re-
spond. He was sent for, but was found
to be out Of town. An attachment was
issued and an attempt will he made to
have him in court today. Judge Will
ard said that if Flynn could not be
reached today that he desired to re-
serve the right to have his testimony
as well as that of two other witnesses
who are out of the city, heard before
the defense closes its case. Mr. New
comb objected to this, but the Cour,
ruled that the plaintiff had a right to
the testimony of these witnesses.
SAW STRIKERS POSTED.
Henry Smith. of Dunmorc foreman
at the car shops, testified that he had
frequently seen strikers posted about
the approaches leading to the yards anC
car shops.
Reuben Gaumar. of South Scranton
testified in direct examination, that W
II. Stanton, a member of the strikers
executive committee, had met him or
the street and called him a ''scab' ano
other names. on cross examination
Mr.. Newcomb elected the information
that Stanton had been arrested for tht
alleged offense and that Gaumar hac