The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-03
PREACHING ANARCHY,
NOT TRADE UNIONISM
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Campbell republican, Kansas
Yes, they have returned Golden
emphatically. One man told these
people to get the gun shops busy be-
cause he was going to buy gum .
Who was that?"
"Ettor," dramatically announced
Golden
He never said that, It's he,"
came almost unconsciously from the
lips of a girl sitting within three feet
lof the speaker and pandemonium
broke loose again, as the committee
sat aghast at the spirit of revolt let
loose before them.
Il have heard insulting remarks
/ from this Witness" shouted Repre-
sentative Stanley of Kentucky above
the din. 1T that happens again l am
going to see that the guilty person
lis sent to jail"
Slowly the tumult subsidized. the
little children and the spectators
leaned forward again. Stanley went
back to the question OF sending the
lchildren from Lawrence. Golden in
sisted that they should not have been
allowed to leave the city
"Why9" demanded Stanley.
Because these strikers had an III.
4 terror motive in trying to send them
away said Golden.
Ulterlor Motive.
What motive could they have had
in sending their children away from
the city where the conditions were
as have been described here today
i 1T was certainly not for the bene
fit of the children" asserted Golden
for the money spent for railroad
fare could have better been spent
keeping them comfortably at home
We'll, what was the real motive
that you talk about?" demanded
Stanley.
THE real motive was nothing more
: than to keep up the agitation to fur
, Their the propaganda OF the industrial
, workers." returned Golden.
How does it concern you VIII,
, they wanted to do it 30 long as 1t was
peaceably?'
Because the propaganda of theil
r movement is the destruction of thu
/ movement which | represent, thu
American Federation of Labor"
Testimony following developed tina
the two factions, one headed by Gold
en- and the textile workers union
the other by Ettor and Haywood ant
the industrial workers, are in bite
:. fight to secure control of the strik'
|, with the women and children, tn,
victims OF the strike.
This is not a strike" Golden de
clared. This is a revolution.
4 Golden declared that If the com
i pany had been able to explain tn
reason for their pay reduction to TIL
men, they would not have gone oul
Wants to go Further.
Il am not opposed to this investiga
!, tion," he declared. Il want to g
:. even further than Lawrence. Cond
, tons there are bad enough, but il
! the textile industry in general and i
the south in particular conditions ar
: worse and wages are lower than i
. New England. The cotton industry
: worse than the woolen.''
!. Golden charged that the alien cor
!, tract labor law was being consistent
). and flagrantly violated by big en-
!, ployers. When Golden suggested
:. general investigation of the entir
: textile industry. Berger remarked
: You surely don't think there is an
chance of getting an investigation G
:. the southern cotton mills by this den
II ocratic house,"
a The southerners on the committe
e objected.
You ought not to make such a
y insinuation as that remarked Hare
wick democrat, Georgia. Las
n night the democrats of the hous
e struck down a great industry to Civ
g the people free sugar"
q Throughout Golden's testimony tn
y groups of ill-clothed women and chi
n dren seated near him eyed him clos
- iy, with evident 2ntagonlSm.
Samuel Lipson, the member of til
strike committee, who startled an
shocked the congressman earlier
the day and whose testimony was il
Eterrnpted to allow Golden to go OF
sat in the witness chair while Code
stood beside him.
From time to time he would nu
muir Indignantly at Golden's attac
fof strike leaders.
LiDson, after telling his story, ha
been turned over to Cox for eros
examination. The skilled lawyer foun
the shrewd Jewish workman, with HI
hating speech different witness
Timothy Healy, president OF the ST
Itionary firemen's union. described til
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