The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-13
MOTHER KILLED BY DAUGHTER WHILE IN
WAY TO Buy DAUGHTERS WEDDING TRU0sSEA|J
ETTOR CLAIMS He
IS NOT GUILTY
Explains to the Jury His
Conduct Before Lawrence
Strike Murder.

Salem. Mass. Nov. 13.-Defending
himself against a charge that he was
an accessory before the fact to the
killing of Anna Lopizze during the
Lawrence textile strike last winter,
Joseph j. Ettor, leader of that indus
trial conflict. faced the jury which is
trying him. together with Arturo Gio-
vannitti and Joseph Caruso for the
crime. 'e
Ettor was on the stand for several
nours repeating to the jury his recol-
lection OF addresses he made to the
strikers detailing incidents of the
struggle and the conferences with the
mill owners and authorities.
Ettor insisted that from the begin-
ming of the strike he counselied
against violence. urging upon the peo-
pie that violence was their worst en-
emy in the struggle and that the way
Tor them to win was to keep away
from the mills and to do nothing.
ne admitted that on the first day he
ADVISED the strikers to go to the mills
to cease so that every mill would have q
to be shut down.
Il told the strikers after the strug-
gle had been on for some weeks, and
conferences with the EMPLOYERS had
begun" said Ettor. that they had
concentrated their power: that in
solidarity OF purpose and action they
mac nao one source Of strength that was
defense and offense of the capita lists.
Capital. I told them. had property
to sustain 1t: that It had the police.
the army. the laws, the constitution
to aid In It's defense; that capital had
everything, money and agents to plant
dynamite to provoke the enemy,
meaning the workers. But the work
ers' ! told them, had more power than
lall that: more than guns and the gal
Iows-the power OF solidarity Of pur-
pose and action. greater than bombs.
workers I said to them, you
need not fight the same way that capi-
tai opposes you. When workers Of
the world want to win. the thing for
tnem to do is nothing. Fold your
arms and the work of the world will
STOP. Put your hands in your pock.
cts and the capitalists cannot put thei,
hands in theire.'"
Ettor detailed the history of III.
strike down to the time Of the plan.
ming for the parade and demonstra.
ton on January 20 which preceded
the fatal riot.
Tomorrow he will resume his story
In tracing the events he told of con.
ferences with the employers. inciudine
those with President william NJ. WOOD
and other officials Of the American
Woolen company in Boston. He also
outlined the strikers demands. in.
Guiding that for fifteen per cent in.
crease In wages. He added:
Mr. Wood said to me when
asked for a definite message: Tel
the strikers to go back to work: that
cannot afford to pay them this. Tel
them also that neither can I afford tc
have them go back to work discon.
tented and that will do something
for them soon.' That was certainis
very indefinite. practically nothing
and when reported 1t to the strike
committee 1t was agreed that we we
should continue the struggle and moi
treat with the mill owners until they
sent for us and assured us that they
would talk business"
Ettor charged the employers will,
lplanting the dynamite in Lawrence
In discussing violence he said he had
used the incident of the stabbing OF
a 17-year-old boy by soldier as a
basis for telling the strikers that the
masters had drawn the first blood