Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-24
DEFENSE ABOUT N
R[BUHAL OFFERED
Principal Part OF Strikers Evi-
dence Today in Injunction
Hearing
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PLAINTIFFS REsurTAL TAKE.
psfsnss's Witnesses Testify to Peace
full Conditions, and Mayor Produces
Record Of Police Court to Show no
4 Arrests for Observation-Disclosures
Witnesses Claim Recent Threats.

witnesses Claim Recent Threats.
Despite objections OF the defendants
counsel the Iowa Central introduce,
in its injunction proceedings this NOR
ming evidence to show that men VIII,
came from st. Louis only on Tuesda,
had been asked to leave the city b,
men outside the grounds. who tolt
Them that there were 800 strikers, mos
OF them carrying AIS or 42s." Thi.
testimon. Eas given by Edward Kerr
and Franz ]. Carroll, who were among
tho latest crowd Of workers.
The plaintiff, after the evidence in.
Produced this morning, said it would
hope to get three more witnesses, ]
]. Stratton, the special organizer FOL
the machinists, who did not respond
to the subpoena for him; L. r. Willard
and IA. ID. Meeker General Counse
George w. Sewers, of the railroad
company, declared that Stratton was
evading the service Of a subpoena, but
Attorney Bradford, for the defense
asked that this statement not go into
the record. and it did not. After the
plaintiff gets thru. the defendant will
offer witnesses in sur-rebuttal.
The first witness this morning for
the defense, was Volney Kent. who
testified that on one occasion he saw
an alleged foreman OF the company
come outside and order some men
standing there to .'get back in where
they belonged" using bad language.
Kent said the officer knocked one OF
the men down and drove three inside.
Mayor 10 Recalled.
i Mayor 1ngledue was recalled, and
said results of comparison OF police
records since the strike, with similar
periods the two years previous, showed
1908 ito be the most peaceful of the
three.
There have been no riots, no as
saults, and no breaches Of the peace.
save where arrests have been made, !"
said he.
.How do you knows" asked Mr..
Sewers.
s11one have been reported by the
police, nor do they show on the police
records" said the mayor.
Plaintiff Again Heard.
The mayors evidence closed the
testimony in chief for the defense, and
the plaintiff called to the stand Ste
phen Lang, an Iowa Central car build
err. He said that on Aug. IA several
men stopped him on Center street and
abused him, among them Roy Green,
Ole 1Ioagland, George Wilcox, and 2
teamster who jumped OF wagon,
came UP and wanted to fight him. He
said Conductor Agan, of the Central,
WIS near by, and told him to have the
mon arrested, but Lang said he wanted
no trouble and did not do So. The men
called him names, he said, and he was
now afraid. He said he went out with
the union, and then became delinquent
In his dues, but denied drawing any
strike: benefits
j. II. Van Rogan, 9 present shop em-
ploye, testified to having had several
men make trouble for him and friend
of his because he wore his cap in
moving picture show, one night, and
that the two Of them took q car back
to the shops, and were followed by the
men. who assaulted his friend. Van
Rogan's use Of slang, considering that
he saws he halls from Boston, con-
vulsed the court room.
Claim Recent Threats.
Edward Kerr, car carpenter. said en-
was one Of forty -eight who came from
st. Louis Tuesday, and that yesterday
another man and he were met outside
the grounds and given until Saturday
niRht to quit. Three men accosted
them, and said there was strike, and
that the last. time men had come IN
thew had been induced to leave the
next day, all but two One Of the men
asked Kerr, he said, IL he was strike
breaker, which he denied. He said one
of the men told him the Iowa Central
had lost its injunction case. He said
the agency in st. Louis, which hired
him. had told him there was no trou-
bic In Marshalltown.
Frank J. Carroll, who came from st.
Louis. with Kerr, who was with Kerr
q the time Of the above incident, tes-
tilted to substantially the same alle-
cations, and that the men had told
them there were 300 men on strike, all
carrying arms.
John Burns, machinist, took the
stand and testified to having been told
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ers went out to seek board, that the
strikers had better stay inside or they
Knight get punched up" so they went
back and stayed there, save those that
quit the company. He said the COM
pany, on August "a, put up notice
stopping free board, and that forty-one
men quit the next day. He said men
had followed his friends and himself
on. one occasion, about dark, when they
were going to the shops, and that
about ten more men sprang up from
among the boilers just at a point where
a special policeman should have been
on guard. This, he said. scared his
friends and himself and they scattered
into the shop. One of the men, whom
he met on Main street one night, he
said, told him he was a striking ma
cl1inist and that it would be to his in
terest to quit and get others to do the
same.
Ralph Keyes, machinist who ac-
Burns the night of the
scare by the boiler shop. testified to
the incident and to being called names |
by men who tried to call him across the
street to talk to them.