The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-03-03

steubenville, Ohio, March Judge
John f. Safer, sitting in federal court
here this afternoon, continued the pro
liminary induction recently granted tns
Wheeling Steel & Iron company to
etraining the officials and membsfs o.
The Amaleamatcd Association ana otnefs
individuals from interfering with fna;
operation Of tho Yorkville mill
Tho taking Of testimony was Con-
tinued until Friday morning and et Ae
conclusion 1t Is expected that tina court
will set a date for final hearing %
which time the question OF whether GO
not the injunction shall be MADE pcsn
heut Will be decided. The preliminary
Injunction which was continued VIII
In force until that time
In announcing his decision 70 eoA-
tinue the restraining order, Judge 49,
turned to Mayor Coss, OF 1ofxvsA
who was in the room, and told mn
that he e1pected him to maintain hW ana
order In the village and that II he Wea
unable to do so he would put depog
marshals there to enforce tho law. ID
further stated that the streets or 1o9A.
vile should be as FREQ as air to Al Nv.
abiding citizens and that they snooto
be made safe and kept so for every 90
Just previous TO the decision, neefS
who mad pepH CdllCO no o -
tho company testified that he had boea
attacked while cnroute to work Ct the
Yorkville mill this morning, ana -
been severely beaten. He testified ohA3
the men who attacked him told him tAAe
unless he quit his job they would OUT
his throat.
Witnesses Examined.
About q score Of Witnesses were s1an.
Incd by attorneys for the steel com
nanv during the day. Tho company y
renresented by Attorneys Charles No
Camic and ]. Harold Brennan OF Wheear
Ing. Gordon Kinder Of Martins FefrY
and Mr.. Lewis Of Steubenvile. Tne a.
PENDANTS named in the preliminary II
junction were represented by Attorne5g
Garner, Bigger and Hooper OF this cH.
superintendent McNulty Of tho TN
plate department Of the Yorkvillo NIL
was the first witness. He testihed re-
sardng attacks on deputy shertns ~
strikers prior TO the opening or tns
plant; Of finding bullet holes IN the SKY
light of the place where employees OF tne
mill we're fed, and as to various dig.
orders prior TO and the day the mill
opened on an open shop basis, February
g, On cross examination he admitted
no violence had been used by tns
strikers.
Fred Hancher testified to being ouStkA
from the union and as to various threets
made against him by strikers. John
Kinney and his III, testified to theff
home being picketrd by strikers and ~
10 threats made. Kinney is chief cleo
tric!an at the Y0rkNlle mill -
Put in jail.
William Crayor. John Bata ana J0AA
White, of Pittsburgh, testified that :he1
went to Yorkville to get Jobs, were INST
=, the station by several hundred mea
who took them to strike headquarters
and later put them in the village tou
over night. They claimed that the next
morning they were bundled on street
car and taken to Wheeling, where they
were handed ovr to another bunch OF
r,cn who took them to Elm Grove, W.
Va, and Instructed them to beat II
:: he. said they were without funds ana
hal 70 walk back to Pittsburgh. AL
three men claimed they we're told thar
!. tncy returned to Yorkville they would
b. taken home in coff!ns.
William Francis Hogan, operator OF
No. sCarchlight at the iorkville miIl,
testified that on three separate nights
Ills light was fired upon by men outSioe
tie plants. He claimed that on ths
right Of February Sth, when Elmer cost
Has killed, he had his light trained on
'hc strikers and saw them open fire On
The company auto which, was returatn8
% :hc mill. lie claimed thtrSy ehoes
ncre fired at tho men in the car without
= T,turn shot being fired.
. Edward Bowman, guard at the pump
, M, station testified as TO shots being
| tired at his post. Judge Safer Ques-
toned him closely when hc stated tne
7 shots were fired from a point mue
! away and he admitted he didn't know
F! for certain that the shots were nred
at the pumping station.
Vicious Threats.
! Steve Kostatis. mill worker. tcsdneo
| that strikers called at his homo ana
/ told him that the first day he went INTO
! the mill they would burn his house slso
! that II he did anything against the
union he would be killed. He testined
, one George Kellas promised to give
! him a black eye every day no caught
him outside the mill
! After examining several other Wit.
nesses, cour; adjourned until o'clock
Friday morning. The defendants coun.
sci may not in,ro.uce any testimony -
! there is yet ten days for the defend
! ants 10 file an answer to the companys
petition for a permanent restratninS
: order.
III IIkIInII RHIKIFno .,.