The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-04

Dy yAnternnuon"'D Dou1 - O' seN H So
 Violence.
 Yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock the state finished putting in their evil dence in the cases of the striking team sters and hack drivers in the superior court, and the defense was commenced. Yesterday marked the sixth day of the trial and judging from the attendance yesterday afternoon the interest taken by the general public is as intense as when it started.
 The last witness put on the stand by the state was Sergeant Gibson of the central station. He testified as to committee from the strikers going to the City Hall drug store and requesting the manager to refuse to accept a truck load of freight which was brought there on a non-union truck
 The defense was then started, William Talmadge, one of the accused, being called to the stand. His direct and cross examination occupied all the rest of the afternoon and the state had not finished with him when court adjourned at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon until 10 o'clock this morning.
 MT. Talmadge stated that he had been president and business manager of the teamsters' union during the time of the trouble. lie said that at the time of the strike the international headquarters of that body was at De troit.
 ! In reply to questions he stated that the first action taken by the union, con corning a strike occurred on the sec ond Sunday last April and that about 500 of the members were present at that time. He stated that the total number of members in his local at that time was between 800 and 900 men. | He then told of the dissatisfaction among the men and said that most of them thought that they ought to have more wages. the average rate of pay at that time being about s9 week. Continuing, he said that the highest pay that any of the men received was SIP week. an6 lowest rate s6 a week, with no limitations as to the number of hours they should work.
 Said MT. Talmadge: At the first meeting there was general discussion as to the existing conditions and after talking the matter over it was decided to appoint committee to draw up an agreement which was to be submitted to the owners and MT. Stockford and myself were elected to attend to this natter
 In reply to questions the witness tes- tified to the fact that when he was working for Peck & Bishop he worked from ten to eleven hours day and received s9 a week pay foE his ser vices.
 At a meeting held on the fourth Sun day in April large majority of the union men voted to strike without set ting the exact time for the strike to be called, unless the employers com piled with the conditions offered before that time.
 He then said that the strike was was simultaneous throughout the city. The union had meeting the night be- fore but no vote was taken at that time and the strike was ordered by author l ity of the international officers and that Stockford was present at the meeting of that body.
 Talmadge said that he presided at the meeting on May 11th and that he ad- dressed the meeting. He told the men not to use violence; to keep out of the saloons; and to behave themselves.
 He then said that meetings were held while the strike was in progress and oII xxrl,o cfr nl~ 1 s5 a week. The witness stated that Flynn first appointed pickets and that 1 the Rev. MT. Irvine attended some of the meetings and gave good advice to the men. Stockford, he said, went to his home in Hartford every Saturday night.
 Some time was then spent in ques- tions concerning the methods adopted by the union in getting trade away l from the non-union concerns, and also about various meetings which had been held between the owners and the strik- CTS in an attempt to effect compro- mise.
 The state had only commenced the cross examination when court was ad- journed until this morning at 10 o'clock, when MT. Talmadge will again be put on the stand.
 Through a misunderstanding over the hour of Judge Shumway's expected arrival an hour was lost yesterday morning before the opening of the court.
 Proceedings opened with the calling of Sanford c. Stone to the witness stand. MT. Stone is a member of the firm of Stone & Norton, dealers in poultry at 370 State street.
 Taken in hand by State Attorney Williams, MT. Stone went back to the teamsters' strike, testifying that he was first brought into direct connec- tion with it through the visit of a man to his office to solicit his carting bus- ness. He could not recognize the man, but produced a card given him by his visitor, which MT. Williams offered in evidence, with the consent of the de- fense. This is exhibit 15.
 On the card was the name, William 1 ITalmadge," together with the words, s'Nocal No. 340 No. 97 Union street. , and an engraving of union button. This man had tried, said MT. Stone, to secure his carriage, but upon MT. Williams attempting to identify the bearer of the card with one of the de- lfendants, the defense interposed vigor- ously
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