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has been reduced from 1900 in 1922.
to 600 and the cars are now run by
scabs as the result of the campaign
waged by the company.
Two Men Already in Prison.
In acquitting the men, the jury
showed that it placed no confidence
in the testimony of the witnesses for
the government. The defense proved
these witnesses to be stoolpigeons of
the company and showed that these
stoolpigeons had perjured themselves
at either this or previous trials; since
the testimony they gave at this trial
was Numerically the opposite Of
testimony which they gave at previous
trials. It is on the basis of the testi-
mony of these very witnesses that the
two members of the union now serv-
ing sentence in state prison were con-
victed.
Thru these perjured stool pigeons
and provocateurs, the government at
tempted to prove that the men on
trial were guilty of conspiracy and
participation in the blowing up by
dynamite of the tracks of the Inter
national Railway company during the
1922 strike against this company.
Regular Frame-Up.
The government based its case on
the confession" Of George Galloway
who testified to having planned and
actually participated in the placing of
five cases of dynamite on the car
tracks, few minutes before an excur-
sion train carrying passengers from
the Niagara Falls passed over the
spot and was wrecked.
The defense showed by reading
from previous testimony by the same
Witness. that he had sworn that he
knew nothing about any plans to dyna-
mite the tracks; that he never heard
of anyone planning this and that no
member of the union now on trial had
ever suggested to him that he do any
thing wrong.
Confronted by this testimony he sud
denly began to forget" The defense
compelled him to admit tho that if he
had given this testimony that it was
true. From the records of the prev
ious trial 1t was easy to prove that he
had given this testimony.
A Fine SpecinenI
Another witness for the government
was forced to admit under cross-ex-
animation that during the entire per-
iod of the strike he was acting as
under-cover-man for the company.
That he received from the company in
return for selling out the strikers. a
weekly wage of $3.50. This witness
further admitted that despite the fact
that he was receiving these wages
from the company, he continued to
draw strike benefits of $40 per week
from the union and had received over
$500 in such benefits.
From the testimony of these paid
agents of the company, 1t now appears
certain that the dynamiting was car
ried out by provocateurs in the en-
ploy of the company for the purpose
of discrediting the strike and thus de-
feating the workers.
Capitalist Press Concealed Truth.
The trial aroused much interest
among the workers here. The local
"Brass-Check" press which continu-
ally wages vicious openshop cam
paign under the direction of the Buff
falo chamber OF commerce, gave prom
inent space to the confession" OF the
stoolpigeon, Galloway. and to all other
perjured testimony against the men.
Not until the men were actually ac-
quilted was anything favorable 10 the
defendants mentioned in the local
newspapers.
The defendants and their friends
were therefore very much surprised
and highly appreciative when shown
copies OF The DAILY WORKER
which carried the story OF the trial.
When told that further story giving