Tombstone epitaph., 1920-04-25

the deportations continue and i
was endeavored to show the opera
tions OF the alleged kangaroo court
which deported men returning tothe
district were brought before and
charged with vagrancy.
Following the decision when Coun.
ty Attorney French repeated the
question to two witnesses the cour.
sustained the objection Of the de-
fense on the grounds that the pro-
per grounds for the testimony hal
not been laid. The witnesses were
excused TO be recalled later. accord.
ing 10 the announcement OF the
state. when grounds for the testi-
mony will be lain.
Albert Krock was called. He saii
he quit work when the strike was
called bu, did not belong 10 any ia
Dor organizations. He was en- route
to the store early the morning OF the
18th when he was arrested by a num-
Der of men with guns and taken to
Warren. He was hit with a club he
said. while talking 10 a man named
Billie Woods and saw Wm. Thomp-
son and Jess Toland. in the crowd
and get his hat and another shirt,
but was refused. When he asked
Geo. Wilcox IL he couldn't leave the
line he said Wilcox told him: You
stay there At Warren he said his
boss asked him to get out of line
and he did 80 on condition that he
go back 10 work. which he did on
the 14th or 18th. In answer 10 ex-
animation from the defense he said
he was born in Poland and had been
a resident OF the United States for
Il years and didn't vote for the
strike because he didn't have a
chance. but Quit for better condi-
tions. He described conditions tha.
he worked under which he didn't like
Charged with having told Robert
7 L. 10
denied it and asked If he hadn't been
trying to get men at the Briggs
shaft during the past month TO come
over and testify in the Wootten case
he denied this also.
Dan McGibbon had completed his
testimony when noon recess was
called. He said he stopped work
when the strike was called, but be-
longed to no labor organiZa .ion. He
saw the picket lines three or four
times bu; saw no violence and
thought the strike was peaceful He
was taken along with seven or eight
other men from pool hall in Low
ell. where he had been playing cards
all night and placed in line and tag-
en- TO Warren and then deported. He
said, on cross examination, that ne
worked in the mines off and on and
had tended bar in Naco, Sonora up-
til the saloons were closed there.
He also tended bar in Rodeo, n. NJ,
after he left the camp at Columbus
he said. He approved OF the strike.
Which was the reason ne struck he
said. He had no personal grievance
he testified but wanted better condi-
t.ors including restrictions OF blast
ing after shift and flat rate of S.
per day. He did not know the l.
W. w. had called the strike, but
thought i. was the w. F. VI. and lat
er heard Ii was the Metal Mine, Mill
and Smeiterman's Union, but didn't
know that was the /. W. W. organiza-
ton.
This afternoon John Mccullough,
student OF law at the University
OF Arizona was the first on the stand
and had considerable 20 say about
what he thought of the deportation,
characterizing it as "a state of an
archy" run by anarchists and that it
was worse than Russia. He was re-
primanded several times by the cour:
and several times launched into a
long debate on economics. At one
time the court told him that "this is
not street corner and IF you want
to make a speech get out into the
hall"
Mccullough said he went to the
picket lines during the strike as a
student. being interested in the fight
between capital and labor. He was
arrested on the morning Of the 18th