Arizona republican., 1915-04-10
Business Agent of Interna- tional Association of Ma chinists on Union Pacific Gives Federal Commits sion Interesting Facts MADE CONCESSIONS
 TO END STRIKE Says Hartman Felt for the Women and Children Who Would Suffer by Strike and Strove to End the Troubles
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 CHICAGO. April 9.-E. H. Harri- man, it appeared in the testimony be- fore the federal commission on in dustrial relations, was q friend ot labor.
 s. H. Grace. of Omaha, business agent of the International Associa- ton of Machinists on the Union Pac- fife, testified that when trouble arose on the road in 1902 Hartman tele- graphed that it was his first trouble, and that If he could avoid it, 1t would be his last.
 J. w. Kline, general president or the International Association of Blacksmiths and Helpers. testified:
 Hartman felt for the women and children who would suffer by the strike and he made concessions which troubles in 1902 I feel had he lived the disastrous strike of 1911 on the Hartman lines would not have taken place.
 Today's evidence dealt with the physical examination of applicants for mechanical positions, with violent acts of the strike. methods of tho strike breakers and so-called detec- tives and other phases of the rail road labor situation.
 John G. Taylor, of Oakland, Cal, business agent of the Southern Pac- fife Company's machinists. testified that spotters engaged in disrupting the unions generally worked in trios. He designated them as follows:
 1. The promoter of quarrels who gains membership in a budding union and by his wiles sets Jew quarreling with Gentle, Italian with Austrian and so on, thus weakening the strength of the membership. 9 The good fellow who makes friends with everybody and spends his money so freely that those who try to keep up their end of the en- tertainment presently find them selves financially embarrassed, and thus open to suggestions of treachery to the union.
 5. The "discourager' This man lis professional pessimist who is stored with objections to unionisni and predicts nothing but trouble for ! organizations which try to compel powerful corporations to grant the men their rights.
 Hugh Montgomery, of Macomb City, Miss, told of the riots there | when the Illinois Central brought in strike breakers to take the places of | union shopmen.
 .x.4n l ing with the railroad property" re- 1 lated the witness. "and when tele- grams came that q trainload of strike breakers was on the way, as- saulting inoffensive citizens and in- | sulting women by the way, every 1 body in Macomb was anxious to see
 them. 1 went along, as one of the oldest citizens, to remind the boys against violating the injunction, for once they got us into the federal court at Jackson We were helpless. 1 When the train arrived the windows of the cars were suddenly thrown up , and we were pelted with stones and
 a fe shots were fired. l was hit by a rock and the news was flashed all over the country that I was killed. 1 got over it though
 l Mir Montgomery said that the stay of the strike breakers was a long nightmare characterized by much violence,
 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 1 eXnensiNe as possible for us"