The Sentinel=record., 1915-04-10
FELT FOR WIVES AND CHILDREN
Business Agent of the Southern Gave Testimony of the Alleged Methods Employed by "spotters" to Cause Dssenson and Break Up Unions.

Chicago, April 9.-E. H. Hartman, it appeared in testimony given before the United States commission on in- dustrial relations today, was a friend of labor. S. H. Grace of Omaha, busi- ness agent of the International Asso- citation of Machinists on the Union Pacific, testified that when trouble arose on that road in 1902, MT. Harri- man telegraphed it was his first labo' trouble, and if he could avoid it, it would be his last.
 j. w. Kline. general president of the International Association of Backsmiths and Helpers, testified
 MT Hartman felt for the women and children who would suffer by q strike and he made concessions which resulted in the settlement of the trou. bles of 1902. l feel that had lie liver the disastrous strike of 1914 on the Hartman lines would not have taken place"
 Today's evidence dealt with physi- cal examination of applicants for me chancal positions, with violent acts
  breakers and so-called detectives and other phases of the railrosd situaIllsn John c. Taylor of OaRrnd, Cal. business agent of the Southern Pa cific railroad machinists, testified that "spotters" engaged i'll disru7ting unions generally worked in trios. He designated them as followsa
 "l. The promoter of quarrels, who sets Jews quarreling with Gentilee; Italian with Austrian.
 "2. The good fellow who spends his money so freely that those who try to keep up their end of the enter tainment presently find themselves financially embarrassed and thus open to the suggestions of treachery to the union
 ''3. The diecourager.' This man is a professional pessmst who predicts nothing but trouble for organizations which try to compel powerful corpora tions to grant the men their rights"
 Hugh Montgomery of McComb City, Miss, told of the riots there when the Illinois Central brought in strike breakers to take the places of union shopmen.
 MT. Montgomery said that the stay of the strikebreakers was a long nightmare characterized by much vio- lence, and added:
 Strikers were always being ar rested and taken to Jackson. where the charges were usually dismissed or fines remitted. The purpose of the arrests was merely to make it as ex- pensiye as possible for us"
 Tell us now the average shopman lives" asked Frank P. Walsh, chair man of the commission.
 Bread, bacon, country syrnp-- there is lots of that in Mississippi; yams and sweet potatoes" replied the witness; that's the general bill of fare year in and year out. You have to manage carefully"
 What about clothing?"
 %The same standard"
 Prior to the strike the school sys. tenn was inferior, he said, but it has improved since.
 MT Kline said that there was less violence on the western lines than on the Illinois Central because the strik- CTS were afraid of the bad men" em- ployed by the western lines.
 "The further west you got the uglier these bad men were" said Mr Kline. They were particularly bad in Wyoming. Nigger Bilr Lewis was one of them. Lewis beat brakeman nearly to death and the union swore out a warrant for his arrest but could get no one to serve it. He went to the Illinois Central s. J. Keefe was another railroad guard. His recommendation for this position was that while on spree he killed citizen"
 Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the board of directors of the Southern Pacific, is among the witnesses ex-