The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-07-29
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STRIKE T0GO0
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ploymsnt OF the company, but you
have. no right to interfere with the
rights of others to ride on street
cars" Judge Baltzell told Fade.
The following men will be SEN
fenced by Judge Baltzell Friday:
Armstrong. Parker. Mefvin McNew'
Everett Tally, Joe Wiggiugton. Fade
Edgar Day. John Frakes, Everett
Ellis and Russell Bane.
Two men, cited for contempt, have
not been apprehended. Those named
above have either pleaded guilty to
the contempt charges or have been
found guilty either by the court or
a jury.
Papers requesting that Harry
Boggs. president Of the local car
mems union, he brought here from
Parkersburg, w. Va, were sent TINS
morning by United States Attorney
Albert Ward. Boggs, ~apprehended
Wednesday. also is charged with con
tempt The bill of information was
included in papers sent: The United
States commissioner in w. Virginia
will decide whether or not BoGgs
wilfb e sent back here, it was said.
BaltzeIl found Parker and Arm
strong guilty late Wednesday. They
were charged with violating the i'm
junction of July 8. which prohibited
them from interfering with the oper-
alton of Indianapolis Street Railway
cars. The strike was called themorn.
ing of July 5. y
Petition for the appeal and moves
to obtain the bond will be the de-
fense's play in Federal Court Friday
Edgar Day, striking a employe,
o241 Kenwood Ave, was found guilty
of contempt in a jury trial Wednes-
dav afternoon. The jury returned
eight minutes elaboration.
Day was charged with holding a,
meeting at his house, where various
acts of violence were planned,
Based on Speech
Conviction of Parker and Arm
strong was practically based on p
speech made by Parker at the strike
vote meeting, July 5.
Judge Baltzell took special note OF
Parker's talk in which he spoke
about how many injunctions he had
at his home and that he had read
more of them than street, car com
pany attorneys and the court.
These men have made some
broad statements in their speeches,
the court stated. "I don't see how
anv lawyer can honestly say there
was no violation OF the injunction In
these speeches"
AS soon as the courts finding was
made. only a few minutes after the
close of the case, William Z Bach-
elder, counsel for the men, asked
for bond.
Ward was on his feet immediate
~ Directing to the move.
"These men are directly charge
able for violence" Ward declared.
THAT is not an issue In this CASE
the court corrected.
Given to Marshal
"If these men are released on bond
they will continue to encourage
strikers and attend the meetings."
Ward declared. They have once
houted the courts order. BY this
they have forfeited their right to
liberty"
The court then pronounced that
the men should be taken in the Gus
tody of the United States marshal,
Linus P. Meredith, and held in jail
without bond.
Parker's speech at the meeting
was read in part as evidence for the
defense, by Norman Metcalf, short
hand reporter, who was called to the
meeting by the union organizers,
Russell and Joseph Fort, employed
by Parker and Armstrong, to or
ganize the men, testified that Parker
and Armstrong made no remarks to
the union men about taking en-
ployed men from the street cars
and bring thsm to the meetings.
The Fort brothers. declared from
the witness stand that they were.
discharged from union employe July
3, the day when the injunction was
issued, and had received no remuner-
alton except S. each in strike bene.
fits, since that time.
Discharged by Organizers
Curtis Johnson and Jesse Young,
employed by Parker and Armstrong.
who the defense showed-to be stool
pigeons for the street car company,
said they had received a letter of
discharge from the organizers, butt
were told sit was really a p%retense."
The Forts declared they were wit
nesses to the discharge of Johnson
and Young. and Barker and Arm.
strong made no references to the
letter being merely a pretense.
: Other defense witnesses during
the afternoon denied testimony of
Government witnesses. that any
effort was made by the leaders to
incite the men to take a strike vote,
Young and Johnson testified they