The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-11-13
.ETTOR TAKES STAND
IN OWN BEHALF AND
DENIES HIS GUILT
Declares He Always Coun-
seIled Against Violence
in Strikes-DetaiIs of
Struggle

Salem, Mass, November 12.-Defending
himself against a charge that he was
an accessory before the fact to the kill
ing of Anna Lopizzo in the Lawrence
textile strike last winter. Joseph j. Eft
tor. leader Of that Industrial conflict. to-
day faced the jury which is trying him
together with Arturo Giovannitti and
Joseph Caruso for the crime.
Ettor was on the stand for several
hours repeating to the jury his recollec-
ton of addresses he made 10 the strikers,
detailing incidents of the struggle and the
conferences with the mill owners and au-
thorities.
Ettor insisted that from the beginning
of the strike he counselled against VIC
lenee, urging upon the people that VIC
lenee was their worst enemy in the strug-
gle. and that the way for them to<win
was to keep away from the mills and to
do nothing lie admitted that on the
first day he advised the strikers to go to
the mills and urge all who remained at
work 70 cease so that every mill would
have to be shut down.
Demonstrated Power
Il told the strikers after the struggle
had been on for some weeks and confer
ences with Che employers had begun
said Ettor that they had demonstrated
vol ba In,
pose and action they had one source of
strength that was far greater than all
the agencies of defense and offense of
the capitalists. Capital. | told them had
property to sustain it; that it had the
police, the army, the laws, the constitu-
ton to aid in its defense; that capital
had everything, money and agents to
plant dynamite to provoke the enemy,
meaning the workers. But the workers,
| told them, had more power than all
that, more than guns and the gallows-
the power Of solidarity of purpose and
action greater than bombs
4" Workers., ] said to them. you need
not fight the same way that capital
opposes you. When workers of the
world want to win the thing for them
TO do is nothing. Fold your arms and
the work of the world will stop. Pu;
your hands in your pockets and the
capitalists cannot put their hands in
theirs Lie absolutely silent and you
are more powerful than all the weap-
ons of the other side for offense and
defense
Ettor detailed the history of the
strike down to the time of the planning
for the parade and demonstration on
January 20, which preceded the fatal
riot Tomorrow he will resume his
story. In tracing the events he told CT
conferences with the employers, in
Guiding those with President William
Nj. Wood and other officials of the
American Wooden company in Boston.
He also outlined the strikers demands,
Including that for 5 per cent iu-
crease in wages. He added:
Wood Indefinite
MIR. Wood said to- me when | asked
for a definite MESA ge: Tell the
strikers to go back to work; that
cannot afford to pay them this. Tell
them also that neither can / afford to
have them go back TO work discon-
tented and that | will do something
for them soon That was certainly
very indefinite, practically nothing,
end when | reported to the strike com
nittee it was agreed that we should
continue the struggle and not treat
with the mill owners until they sent
for us and assured us that they would
talk business
Ettor charged the employers with
planting 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 -