The San Francisco call., 1904-07-14
MANY STORIES
OF UNION ACTS
Fourteen Witnesses Testi-
fly Against Pickets Sent
out by the Stablemen
TEST CASE DRAGS ALONG
Evidence Shows Threats and
Other Means Were Used
TO Hurt Stable Business


heard yesterday in Judge Hunts
court in the trial OF the injunction
ease against the Stablemen's Union
and still the side OF the employer is
not finished. While not sensational.
the evidence was significant in its
bearing upon the acts of representa-
tives OF the union in its effort to de-
clare the Nevada stable unfair" The
witnesses told stories OF assault.
threats and interference with business
end each story was corroborated.
J.. c. White. secretary of the Car
riage Owners Association, testified
that he had heard the pickets in front
o the Nevada stable call out unfair
stable; don't patronize the only unfair
stable on Market street" and there
Is old Pierce: look at him; he is Il
Ecab." He said that the man who
roiced these phrases would raise his
hand TO persons passing on the street
cars and repeat the words mentioned.
NJ. J. Lnehan, a hay and grain
dealer said that he had been called
upon by Representatives of the Stable
mems Union, who asked him TO refuse
10 sell hay 10 the Nevada stable and
said that If he would do so the horses
would starVe, because the men at the
stable could not leave their work to
haul hay. The representatives, he
said, declared that if ne did not OBJ
serve their demand they would boy
COtt him and give his hay a black
eye" as far as was within their power.
ESCORTED BY OFFICER.
Police officer J. F. O'Shea. detailed
20 look after the trouble at the Ne
vada stable, said that he had seen the
attempt TO interfere with the loading
Of manure and had heard man in
gray suit say TO the nOn-uniOn en-
ployes: We viii get you" He Or
6ered the man away. The officer es-
corted the nOn-union men TO their
meals and waited outside the restaL-
rant 10 take them back. Before that
time meals were brought to the men
at the stable, but they objected to the
quality Of the food. Attorney Van
Ness suggested that it was because
they were being served from a union
restaurant. On ross-examination
O'Shea said that he was not member
Of either OF those unions. the Citi-
zens' Alliance or the stablemen."
Proprietor E. G. Pierce was recalled
by Van Ness and he identified the
'red-headed" man as one Lockhards,
who had marched in the circle of
pickets. Pierce stated that Lockhardt
and another had come into the stable
Fnd asked to hire a peddler's rig.
moving that he had no such rig in
tbs barn LOckhardt is said to have
called Watchman Miller a vile name
and asked if he had a gun" Pierce
answered that il was none OF Lock-
hardt's business. Later the pair re-
turned and demanded a rig from the
stable. Pierce said he would not let
them have one and an argument e5-
sued in which the red-headed man cast
further reflections upon the watch
man and then said that he would do
Pierce and the watchman, too" Pierce
ordered Miller 10 put the men out. Mil
Ter drew gun and the men departed,
an officer in citizens clothes helping
them out Of the door.
Michael Kelly, one of Pierce's nom
union employees, cOrroborated the
story OF the affair with the red headed
man and his rate.
NJ s. Rose. one Of Pierce's non-union
employees, working upstairs in the sta
bic, heard the word "scab' used by
those ealing out in front Of the place
Of business and said that Monroe, the
union captain Of plckets, was louder in
his expressions than any Of the others.
WANTED HORSES REMOVED.
Charles Maginnis. in charge Of the
stock and wagons for Blake, Mofitt &,
TOwnc. testified that representatives
of the union had called upon him and
requested that he remove the firms
horses and rigs from the Nevada sta
bic. No threats were made and. seeing
no reason for changing stables, he told
the union men that he would not com
ply with tlseir request.
G Farris, a builder and contractor
told the court that he had seen twenty
70 thirty men walking around in front
OF the stable and saw Monroe directing
them. They talked in a loud voice. bur
only cried out Unfair stable" Teams
he said, were obliged to drive around
the strikers IN order to enter the sta
bic. Farris said that he We greeted
5okingly by his union acquaintances
who asked him if he was a "scab."
D. II. Mccarthy, who is in the horse
business and a member Of the Carria ge
and Stable Owners Association. saw
the parade OF pickets with banners and
observed Monroe in the crowd He
heard the cry Of "scab." but could not
say where it came from. The crowd
that gathered outside the stable, he
said, interfered with the progress of
pedestrians. He testified that when he
drove horses through the crowd he had
10 do so by main force.
c. p. Howes. a real estate broker,
corroborated the preceding witnesses
and said he had heard remarks stating
that the stable belonged TO the trust
and was down on laboring men," He
had heard the strikers say that the