New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-29
Judge Forces Himself as
Witness on Industrial
\ Relations Hearing.
DENIES STORY TOLD
BY MAJOR BOUGHTON
Militia Officer Defends Troops at
Ludlow 49, Opponent Says
Judges Are Bought"

ren r. Lindsey. Denver's ohildren's
Judge. overturned the schedule or the
CITY Hall hearings before the United
e,,tes Commission on Industrial Rela-
,,ons Yesterday by walking up 10 Chair
nan walsh and demanding TO be heard
q. witness on the Colorado strike war.
tte declared that he wanted TO contra
do, tho things that had been said earlier
i the Day by Major Edward J. Eoush-
ton Of the Colorado militia
Then Judge Lindsey began TO say things
the Colorado judiciary that made
u.h,vers run up the spines OF the commits
s.cners.
oThc owners OF those mines and their
Mod own the judges on the bench, he
declared. They own the judges on the
/ supreme Court bench as they do their
omce boys They own District Attorneys
and all other officials. The gentleman
vbo preceded me on the stand is an en-
Move OF the miners association
Here the judge was interrupted by the
| Chairman.
mot the coal miners he inter-ected.
There's no difference replied Judge
| Lindsey.
Major Bouehton. the witness who
aroused Mr.. Lindsey's wrath, told the
| commission that after he had been ap-
,ointed 10 fix the responsibility for the
sprning Of the tent colony at Ludlow
and tho deaths Of women and children
IN the Rockefeller mining war, he found
1 that:
The underlying cause Of the Ludlow
hattie was the presence there OF three
i discordant elements-strikes, soldiers and
1 mine guards-all fostering deadly hatred
The Immediate cause was an attack
| q, the soldiers by the Greeks in the tent
eolonv. who misinterpreted a movement
NJ troops on a nearby hill
Machine guns we're used merely to
,oyer the movements OF troops.
| There was no Ludlow massacre.
ts-l.vsn women and two children were
Yhothered in their tents.
The miners were guilty Of extreme
h,rutalities
4 Fsr from killing women and children.
I-ost OF the guardsmen went bravely
L. their rescue. exposing themselves
s,en TO the fire Of their own comrades.
The militia made only one mistake,
md there are two versions Of the Incl
Dent in which they erred.
The Colorado guardsman said he had
,o,ne as the representative OF the Gov
amor 10 place before the people of the
las A true understanding OF the situa-
Euon. He admitted he had conferred
Ivth mine officials here, and that he
1yas under retainer in Colorado-to gold
miners, he explained.
"Have YOU been 10 the Rockefeller
snces at IS Broadway, among other
}yaceso" asked Commissioner Garretson.
Eyes, sir.
The mistake the major referred TO was
the killing of the strike leader. Louis
rkas. A quarrel between Tikas and
Lieutenant LAnderfeld resulted in the
:Qardsmans breaking the stock OF a
rife over the head Of the prisoner The
Witness said there was little excuse for
such an act.
Major Boushton described the battle
a, Ludlow thus:
- military detail went 10 the colony
10 demand Of Tikas the release of a
man said 10 be detained BY the strikers.
l The man was not delivered. Hot words
1 passed between che soldiers and the
strikers. When the detail left, the
lEreeks. over the protest of their lead
,v.rs. ran TO their guns and threatened
~ night. Major Hammock brought the
ysvAchrneut down in plain view of the