Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
EIGHT BOUND OVER
IN STRIKE DISORDER
Other Textile Workers at
Elizabethton Released as
Unidentified"
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ELIzABETHTON, Tenn. May 18.
Martial law in Elizabethton to-
night hinged on a conference be-
tween Adjt. Gen. W. C. Boyd. Capt.
Tom Henderson, Judge advocate of
the State; John Nicely. assistant at
forney general; Sheriff j. NJ. More
land and several leading citizens.
BY the Associated Press.
ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, May 18.-
Eight striking union textile workers to-
night were free on bond pending grand
jury action, while others who faced pre-
liminary hearing before two magistrates
on charges of conspiracy to commit
murder were released.
Announcement that the eight, men,
bers of group arrested Thursday after
clash with non-union workers re-
turning to the American Bemberg and
American GlanZstoff mills would be
held to the grand jury was made to-
day. Taking Of testimony and argu-
mentS In the cases, involving 100 or
more workers, began Thursday and was
completed late yesterday.
Eight Called Ringleaders.
The State charged the eight strikers
held were ringleaders In a disturbance
on road at Valley Forge. The others,
it was announced, would be released, as
most of them were unidentified at least
rs having refused to give their names
when arrested.
Many of the warrants for strikers
were made out against John Doe" or
Mary Doe" One warrant named
'red-headed boy" another just "a boy"
while many were served on 100 per
centers" and "Whoopee."
Names were still withheld when bonds
were posted, and during the trial the
majority of the defendants mingled
with the spectators, and less than 20
testified, among them being the eight
bonds Of 81 900 each.
Adjt. Gen. w. c. Boyd, directing the
National Guard, today waived a pre-
liminary hearing on charges of aiding
and abetting an attempt to commit
murder" preferred by Evelyn Heaton
yesterday. He was held to the grand
jury under bond. The girl charged he
ordered bus driver to charge a group
Of pickets who were blocking the road
and that she was injured.
Explosions continued Sporadically in
widely separated sections today, but no
damage was done. Explosions of giant
firecrackers throughout last night kept
patrols busy chasing down rumors of
homes being destroyed in Carter and
other nearby sections.
DR.. Arthur Motwurf, president of the
two big plants that were closed early in
April when the more than 5000 oper-
atives employed walked out on strike,
announced today that he was going to
New York to discuss the situation with
other officials of the corporation and
that he might" appear before the Sen
ate manufactures committee at Wash
ington Monday.
Mob Spirit SubdRed.
Union forces held a mass meeting i'm
mediately after the trial. Some one
shouted Lets go get them out" re-
ferring to the eight strikers held. The
cry spread, but w. E. Kelley. vice presi-
dent of the United Textile Workers,
Quieted the union workers with plea
for peace.
Tonight Kelley issued statement
saying he feared some of the strikers
will get beyond our control If we con-
tinue to be prosecuted" Military lead
ers also announced that trouble" was
imminent.
Patrols Of guardsmen worked their
way through the mountains which shell
ter the Valley Forge clan Of strikers and
ordered all loiterers to move on. There
were few lights in the mountains to-
night.