New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-11
Grand Jury TO Take Up
Labor CHARGES That
Thugs Led Mob.
COMPANY HEAD
WILL BE HEARD
County Prosecutor Certain That
Foreign Influences" Started
the Trouble.
BY JOHN J. lEARl. JR.
rR- TNio-rs-N - To T1hrre

Youngstown. Ohio. Jan. 1O.--After
giving organized labor and its repre-
sentatives clean bill Of health in CON
nection with Saturdays riotiug, Andrew
NJ. Henderson. county prosecutor, an
noUnced tonight that he would call
James A. Campbell, president 90 the
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
as one Of the first witnesses before the
grand jury.
Campbell. who. according to present
arrangements, Will so on the stand to
morrow. will be asked 70 explain all
the circumstances surrounding the
trouble at his plant. the bringing Of
private detectives from Pittsburgh and
the uses 20 which those men were put,
as well as anything that might bear on
the proposed merger OF his company
with the Cambria Steel Company and
other plants.
The decision 20 call Campbell was
reached after the prosecutor had eX-
srlined dozen witnesses in camera and
had received the direct charge from
Thomas F. Flynn. general organizer OF
the American Federation Of Labor, that
the outbreak had been caused by slug
gers hired by the company. Demands
by minority stockholders Of the com
pany that the entire matter be siftod
70 the bottom also were made 20 the
prosecutor.
Wants To Be Fair TO Campbell
There is no intimstion by Mr.. Hen
derson or any one else that all of Mr.
O. Campbel's acts were not entirely
proper or that he had knowledge Of the
methods alleged 20 have been followed
in bringing about the situation that de
veloped, but so many charges have been
made that Mr.. Henderson feels 1t is
only fair that Mr. Campbell be afforded
an opportunity 70 clear the air.
Danger of further rioting apparently
is over. Around the mills things are
so quiet that BriRadier General John
{. Speaks began this afternoon % send
troops home. One regiment already IS
on its way. and the week will see the
valley free Of soldiers. There is no
disposition now on the part Of the for
eigners 20 make trouble.
The situation, so far as the minority
stockholders Of the company are con
cerned. is not so serene. There are
about 300 Of them IT, this section, and
they are opposed 20 parting with local
control Of an enterprise that frequent
ly has declared 10 per cent stock divl-
dends Il is this element that is now
pressing the county authorities 20 act.
Pressure also IS coming from Colum-
bus. Governor Willis has called OIL Nh.
Henderson TO 20 into the situation from
the beginning and 10 keep him advised
as to Developments Henderson replied
that he would 60 the limit. adding his
regret that the law would not permit
him TO supply the minutes Of the grand
jury to the Executive. However. he
will provide the Governor with aft
davlts from all material witnesses.
Accuses Outside Influences.
Henderson. with an extra staff Of
assistants, began his examination OF
prisoners and witnesses to-day. i'm all
he had dozen before him. and when
he paused for dinGcc tonight he de
clared that 70 was absolutely certain
that outside influences had made all the
trouble.
I'VE have eliminated the idea that
this trouble was made by Austrian or
THAT possibility was the first thing We
went after. There is absolutely moth
i0g 20 it
Furthermore. NC are sure that IL
was not tho work Of organized labor.
All the evidence in our possession
shows that union representatives hero
not only did nothing TO make trouble.
but that at the risk Of their lives they
tried 10 preserve order after the
trouble had started. This ] know Of my
own knowledge, for | was on the
ground and saw some Of them AZ work.
at is, however, clear that this trouble
was made by men who were not known
in East Youngstown, or, at least were
not employed here Everywhere ne
find assertions that strangers melted
the mob. Prisoner after prisoner says
that these strangers urged them on. and
in some cases gave them weapons. One
man says that a weapon was put into
his pocket Ask them why they did
as they were told, and they will say
they do not know. or that they had
been drinking.
Riot "An Organized Affair"
"persons who lost proDerty i'm the