Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22

other companies in the same territory
for like service and in violation of the
strikers agreement with our company.
The taking of testimony has pro-
crossed slowly. Three different adj
tournaments have been made at the re-
quest ard unden pressure of the de-
PENDANTS, that they were unable to pro-
coed. We only ask that men refusing
to work shall not by violence prevent
those from doing so who are willing
to take the places of the strikers and
entirely satisfied with the wages PAID.
believe such an order will restore
peace and add much to the safety OF
property and lives of men now unsafe
and uncertain under prevailing condi-
TONS"
Testimony Resumed.
Mr. Sewers did not rest his case this
morning as it was thought he might
do, but started the proceedings by call
ing Frank Barber special police
man for the Iowa Central, who told OF
men complaining of being attacked,
and Of his efforts to get men to board
outside the grounds, as well as COM
rlaints made to him by four men that
they had been made to leave their
boarding houses owing to interference
by strikers who induced their land
lords to make them leave. He said he
never solicited men off the grounds to
go to work, nor did he gather UP ho-
boes and tramps In the yard and try
to get them to work He knew of some
men. he said, who did not leave the
grounds for six weeks for fear of vio-
lence at the hands of former employees.
excepting when he went on the street
with them. He was secured for the SER
vice by Chief Nicholson
Browns Evidence Taken.
Fl. Y. Brown, general car foreman.
was the next witness, and made very
clear one. He had seen three assaults,
he said, one on July /, when some men
accompanied by an officer went to take
a Northwestern train to go to Chicago
for a visit. when men threw stones at
them. None were hit as far as he saw.
About May he said he saw dis
turbance, on the Northwestern tracks
and q policeman standing in front Of a
barber shop facing the trouble, who
did not 60 toward 1t, but turned and
went into the shop.
This. Mr.. Commissioner. is In sup
port of our contention that the police
of Marshalltown are incompetent. in
adequate, or indisposed to protect the
property and employees OF the COM
parry" said Mr.. Sewers.
mfr. Brown said fifteen men quit the
company the day after this trouble.
Last Friday night, he said. he returned
to Marshalftown about l 4, m. from
Oskaloosa, and at the depot met Officer
Haas. Special Railroad Policeman nd
gar, and q man named Saylor standing
on the platform and that Haas. with
language unprintable, asked Brown II
he knew who the man was who testi-
fled that he saw an officer turn away
from trouble.
"He said. I'm working under orders
the same as YOU and he also said that
they wanted those men out of town.
the men who were being en-
ployed on the tracks," said Brown. clio
said they were not employees of the
because they had received
their time checks" Mr.. Brown said he
what he had seen, and that Haas then
duLhlleO He WAS lle officer bTOWT ildQ
seen.
Brown said that one night owing to
e. crowd of men who surrounded him
threateningly, he had found it neces-
sary to call up the mayor for police
protection, without receiving which he
said he would have to hold the mail
trains until morning. Police present on
one of these occasions when he was
annoyed, Brown said. made no attempt
to interfere. He said about ten days
ago an instance was reported to him
by Chief Inspector Johnson, of knuckle
pins being twice pulled from a freight
train, which would have had the eff
feet of parting the train if it started
He said he saw an air hose on car
which had been severed by some sharp
instrument only last Saturday. 81
He told Of trespass on the company
grounds by an eX-employe who did not
leave when requested to, who admitted
he had no permission to be on the
grounds.
The hearing adjourned at noon for
lunch, to be continued this afternoon.