East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-07-12

BOISE, July l2.-W. ~. haywood,
smiling and cool and collected, took
the stand.
He said that he was born jn Salt
Lake City, his father was born in
Ohio and his mother in England. In
early life his father was a pony ex-
press rider, later he became a miner
and died when the witness was years
old. His stepfather was a miner. He
worked for him, beginning when he
was years old. He had worked as
a miner all his life excepting a few
years. when he essayed real estate
business in Salt Lake City, but the
panic put him out of business. He
was married in 1889. His wife has
been a hopeless invalid since 1897.
He Joined the Federation in 1899 in
Silver City becoming a charter men,
ber of the local at that city. He was
secretary of the union when the
d'Alenes. He never knew Steunen-
berg personally. He had been a read
er of the Miners Magazine ever since
It started.
His union and he personally took
part in the Coeur d'Alene troubles by
sending a committee there to investi-
gate the permit system inaugurated by
Steunenberg. He circulated petition
among townspeople and raised $1,000
for use in relieving starvation among
the miners families. who were then
in the bull pen. Union members were
also assessed for the same purpose.
Haywood made a good witness. his
answers being positive and compre-
hcnsive. He explained the loss of his
eye, which mars his face, by saying
that he stuck a knife in it while a
very young child.
He swore that the congressional re-
port on conditions in the Coeur
d'Alenes was due to efforts of the Sill
yer City union, which sent a COM
mittee to Washington to investigate.
Replying to the testimony of Su-
perintendent Stewart of the Silver City
mine, who swore Haywood said
Steunenberg should be exterminated,
the witness said:
''T never said he should be eXtermi-
mated. I think I said he should be
rclegated, and hoped to relegate him
politically. our union fought his re-
nomination. and he was not renomi-
mated never met nor saw Steunen-
berg. and had no personal feeling
against him. / regarded him as any
other politician, who was swayed by
capitalistic interests. That was my
only interest in him"
Haywood left Idaho July 1901,
after having been elected a member
of the executive board One year
later he was elected secretary-treas-
urer. which office he still holds. He
defined at length the duties of the
office. He is under $4,000 bonds.
Federation in Politics.
The federation has, by resolution,
decided to enter politics and does so.
1t opposes all candidates who oppose
labor.
ut elects its friends and defeats its
enemies" he said We've made fair
progress, too" he continued I'VE
have secured real reform in existing
laws affecting mines: our local
unions have hospitals for members,
lodge and reading rooms, and have
paid out thousands upon thousands
in sick and death benefits, caring for
dependents upon deceased members" !"
His testimony relative to the en-
actment of labor laws for Colorado
and the manner in which they are set
aside by the courts there was ex-
ceedingly minute and consumed much
time. Little not already known was
brought out by this line of testimony.
No Object In Killing Gregory.
He said the killing of Lyte Gregory
was not discussed at the meeting Of
the executive board which ives in ses-
sion there at that time and he never
offered Orchard 500 or any other