The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-12


secured four plumbers Tor work IN Salt
Lake and returned with them, arriving
in salt Lake on July %. l9v9 ana Nhat
the four plumbers brought from thC ,3st
were Cook, Johnson, Lickcr and VEN
thinner.
Cook Alleges an Assault,
w. Z. Cook. a witness on behalf Of
the master plumbers, testified IN sub
stance as follows;
That he was hired 10y Mr.. Higson in
Cleveland o.. to come 10 salt Lake City
10 work as a plumber. and that he ar,
rived I'm this city on July %, accompanied
by HigSon and three plumbers from C!SNt-
land. Upon reaching the oregon Shott
Line depot in the evening they were met
by a delegation of plumbers, who gave
them a very warm reception and greeted
them with cries OF scabs, rats
SINNERS, and other offensive expires
He replied it was monc Of their busI-
ness where he VAS FROM and that hav-
! ing gone but five or six steps. some man
ran back of him and kicked him. Hc
tucrcupon, with his party, bodr9eo Il
street car accompanied by the delegation
! of union men that had been AZ the tram
and proceeded 10 the corner OF FIRST SCUM
| and Main streets, where they all LETT the
/ car.
! At this place tho same man who bad
| kicked him at the depot ran up bchlnd
! him and struck him underneath the ia"
! and i'm the forehead, causing HIM 10 stag
! ger and 10 drop his suit case, and that
! his hat few on that policemen were then
! secured and they proceeded to ItiSson
! shop stiu accompanied by the local
plumbers, aud that after remaining there
Tor some time they were taken To tbe
| Tuxedo hotel for the night.
ON various occasions attcrward. at res
] taurants. at his work and on the street.
! he was approached by members OF the
! local plumbers union and toi1 TO set
! out OF town or they would carry nm
! out" that they would ''gct him. and
made other hostile demonstrations.
What KaterowitZ Said.
j. s. Katcrowitz, also witness pro
duccd for the plaintiff, testified IN sub
stance that;
He is Jew born in Bohemia, and
had lived in this country twenty years
and that prior 10 coming to salt Lake
CITY on July 20. he resided in cleveland,
O.. that the first work he ala in Salt
Lake was upon the Vermont building
and that ON the 29th day OF July, Two
DAYS after he began work, lie was visited
by ioIrncvmcn plumbers. members Of the
local union that there were between ili-
teen and twenty in the party that WIS.,
tied him.
They first talked to him good -humorcd-
lIy asking him u he didn't know there
was a strike here and If he would NOT
get off the job. and then they said III
he didn't they would do with him as
they had done with an irouworkcr-put
him In the hospital" and that he wouldn I
therefore he should get off the job.
In reply he told them H. was no
''scab" but a master. and showed them
his withdrawal card. and ono of them
thcreupon said to him Inc Was 'scab,
iusl the same as the rest of them.
Being afraid they were going after him;
he went into the next room and dropped
a note through a window to man below
n to send for help; that at that time ono
OF the union men came from the ncNt
room and took hold of him and SAID N
hr didn't get of the job he would throw
him downstairs. and started to pun him
: but by tha, time some one yelled tha,
Green was coming. and they "cnl
down the steps and met Green.
Thereafter he told his employer, Green
what had happened and that ~
wouldn't work there because 1t WASH
safe" and thereafter he was sent 10 th'
, L. H. :. hospital To work.
| ON his second DAYS work At the hos
l pitaI he was again visited bY three OF TN
"a union plumbers. two or whom stayed ol
the outside and ono came INTO the en-
gincroom. where he was working. an'
said To him.
. II have got YOU spotted II / didn
- get you before I will get you some tim"
= You arc only dirty scab, and was max max
5 nccr came In with several others and IN
@ man lott.
= Claims There Was Fighting.
4 Roy Spencer, another witness pre-
duced by the master plumbers, testliic
Y III part:
|, That he was a witness To tho assau
> on Cook at the corner uf First south AN
~ Main streets ON the night OF Iuly ~. nI
I, that the assault WAS made by unlo
- plumber named Mclch"r. and the he On
10 witness) was himself assaulted about ~
% same time In front Of the Pacliic ~
O. nress company's office on First Soui
street by II member OF the plumber
~ strike committee named O'Connor
~ After the assault upon himself
Is chased his nssailant and caught hi
II about where the Vermont building no
o. stands on South Tcmple street: and IN
upon attempting to bring his assaila'
bacL with him he was prevented fro
!. doing so by several OF the plumbers.
y the man escaped.
y Also that on several OF his contrdc
~ the men. working for him We're al
IS. reached by members of the Plumber
III union who sought TO induce ms en-
I'd ploXees to cease WORK tna' "ehore u