The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-19
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Lloyd and Master Car Builder Garfield
were first called to the stand to tell OF
the situation at the shops. and the in
jury the strike is doing the companys
business.
OBJECT OF INJUNCTION.
General Superintendent Clarke was
asked on cross-exanimation by MIR.
Newcomb IL the object of the company
IN bringing the injunction proceedings
was not TO break the strike. Mr.. Will
lard objected to the question, but Judge
Kelly directed that it be answered. Mr.
Clarke replied that the object of the
injunction proceedings was to prevent
the defendants from interfering with
the operation of the shops.
Mr. Newcomb asked If that was the
only object. Mr. Clarke answered that
it was A question as to whether Of
not the company had notified other
companies not to employ the strikers
was overuled.
Mr.. Lloyd told that there were 513
men out on strike i'm the motive power
department; that there are now 36l
men at work and that about $50 or go
of them are boarded and lodged at the
shops.
He furnished testimony TO having
seen q workmen brought To the shops
whose eyes had been blaCkcned and
that the windows of the paint shop had
been broken in by a fusilade of stones.
He knew nothing personally of any
acts Of violence beyond this.
Mr.. Garfield testified that about 800
men are now working at the car shops.
Not all of them are skilled workmen.
over 20 of them are boarded and lodged
at the shops. Many of them are old
employees. There are 120 guards en-
polyed.
QUESTION OVERRULED.
Mr.. Ncwcomb asked Mr.. Garfield
the same question asked Mr.. Clarke
concerning alleged blacklistng of
strikers. Judge Kelly again over
ruled the question.
Mr.. Newcomb protested that the
company was asking equity and re-
fusing to grant it. The strikers. he
said. had been refused employment at
the Lackawanna Iron and Steel COM
pany's shops and the Erie shops in
Dunmore, because of the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western company
HdNlnS dSkeu THESE companies Hol 10
employ them.
Judge Kelly asked Mr. Newcomb if
he did not claim that the strikers
had a right to ask other workmen not
TO enter the employ of the Delaware,
1ackawanna and Western company,
and when an affirmative answer was
made, the Judge asked if it was not
the Companys right to do practically
the same thing.
Then came the examination of the
employees who claim to have been
molested.
John II. Schroeder, of go Cedar
avenue, testified that he went out on
strike Nav 4, with the rest, and re-
turned June Is. He told that he had
been molcsted on various occasions
going to and from work and named
August Barr, Robert Mccall, II. II.
II. MuntzenburG, Charles II. Camp
bell, w. II. Stanton, James II. Thomp-
son, Anthony Wintermaule and
Thomas Coyne as some of the men
who molested him. He would encoun-
;er them. he said, near the Cedar ave-
nue. bridge, and they would call him
'scab" and other names. ON the
morning of July s. crowd of seven
ty-fve or hundred men were con-
sregated at that point and blocked
the sidewalk. He and eight other
wOrkmen were compelled to leave the
sidewalk and so out on the road Ia
get past The crowd called them
names and three stones were thrown.
II. II. II. Muntzenberg, he said
threw one of the stones. Philip
Dippre, one of the workmen, drew a
pistol, but the witness induced him to
put it away.
HIS FAMILY AFRAID.
Schroeder further testified that his
wife and family were afraid of vio-