Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-17
INJUNCTION HEARING
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she had told them, as a bluff, thai
| there was sick lady in the house
| and that if they would go away she
would order us out in the morning
and she did. We hunted a large part
of Sunday for lodgings. and had t.
| take the baby with US, as there was lie
one to leave it with, altho it was weak
and i'll and the doctors orders Were
to keep it In warm lannels and give
| it warm milk. We could not do this
and had to carry it about with US. II
died the next day.
Barrett said he had never worked
under an alias, either in England or In
! this country, and disclaimed being q
professional strike breaker. He said
he proposed to stay in the shops and
come up town at his pleasure.
Mrs. Barrett was sworn and said she
| lived at sos East Church street. She
was married in February, 1906, and
came from England in October of last
year. AS to Mrs. Rosa l4iebig's visit
| to the house where she lived, she said
Lit was because she had been trying
to get a home for her child because OF
| having had to knock around so in Mar
shalltown. There were tears in her
| eyes as she told of the concealmenf
! of the husbands occupation for the
sake of the baby and its need of feed
| ing.
Travelling Engineer Sworn.
w f. Dwyer, road foreman of en-
gines of the Iowa Central, said that
one day while he was walking on the
street with Engineer iBoyce, Tom
lCoughlin called him a "scab-herder.
| Coughlin, he said, declared, Il mean
YOU, Dwyer, that's who ] mean" lie
heard men called scabs and other
names around the depot. They were
dared to step off the corlpany's right
of way and get whipped. Up TO the
| last month there was net much pro-
| lection for the men, he said, either
around the shops or around town. Chill
dren of the strikers called to his chill
dren that their father was a scab, he
said, and three or four times they
chased his boy home.
Dwyer said: Il have seen men beat
en- up frequently, on two occasions ina
| / remember. Frank Hay. striker
with three on four others, including
| the two boys of Charles Winters, and
a fellow named Barry, assaulted
Young man who waited on table in the
company boarding house. Tom Clege
was with me. They knocked the young
man down, kicked him several times
and beat him up bad.
Foreman Miller's Evidence.
| C. A Miller, foreman of the boiler
| shop. who has been with the the lowe
| Central over twenty years, said he nae
seen men lined up on Center street
THAT he thought were strike pickets
| Among them were Frank Conlllin, John
Coughlin, Frank Stelzer, Charles Win
ters. Greek Frank Hay and others He
| had noticed the men in the shops were
| timid and when he asked them why
| they did not board outside, they said
they were afraid of getting into trou-
BILE owing to the strikers. He said fret
board and lodging given by the COM
pany might have been The reason fo'
| their staying inside during the time
1 that this, favor was extended by the
company.
| Other Witnesses Heard.
George Johnson, colol.ed. who lives
on High street. and works in the shops
| said that last Saturday near his house
| several men called him "scab" and
| threw bricks and stones at him.
A. Seberg. 80 South Sixth street
nineteen years with the company as
mill foreman, said he had seen no as
saults. Frank ConlSlin and Johr
Coughlin had seen him on Third ave-
nue. and called him a name and told
him they would make his son suffe,
| for what the father had done. He sale
he had belonged to the carpenters un-
| ion at the time Of the strike, and the
union had fined him $50. He said the
police and sheriffs force were evil
IDENTIFY unable and incompetent to pro-
| tect the men and property. Seberg sale
Special Policeman Meade had told him
\ five weeks ago that union man had
| told Meade that Seberg would get his
| head cracked, and thai he, had been
/ STAYING off the streets as much as pos
sible.
| C. S. Beers who came from Chanute
Kas., said he knew of 40 strike when
he came here to work He had been
given a room at the New Windsor ho-
| tel by a woman and later the man in
| the hotel made him give up the room,
| giving him his money back, because
he was working in the place of the
| strikers. He had been called a scab
and also another unprintable name last
Wednesday One of the men who adj
dressed him he pointed out in the
| court room. Attorney Sewers and 9th
ers tried to get the fellows mamie, but
could not and his friends would not
give him away.
The testimony of Beers concluded
the afternoon session. Commissioners
Gleason is making trips to Oskaloosa
nightly to attend to hi; own legal af-
fairs. When he accepted the commits
sionership he had no idea thai the
work would bring him to Marshall
town, for he expected to be able to do
his regular law work sts well.