The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-21
MORNING SESSION

J 25 defendants in Federal district lcourt this morning when Myron Me- Donald, government witness, stated 4 he saw Al Nygren. President of the
 Alaska Mine Workers Union, stand ing in the door of the union hall the
 morning of the alleged riot on June "A and hear him say, If you need \ them there's clubs in the hall" Mcdonald said that was during I the street disorder in front of the Iunion hall after the men wishing to I go to work at the mine had reached that point after marching from the
 A. B. Hall He reiterated the state ment on cross examination and in sisted he knew Nygren. Ses l Alleged Participants e f The witness named Nick Kobak, :, Warren Beavert, Ed Rennie, as de- ! fendants he alleged were participants in the trouble and pointed to N, R
 Correll. Evan Dzaloff and Sven Sar-, en as others he had seen at the scene of the alleged riot Under cross ex- animation, Mcdonald was asked to point out Kobak and he pointed to George Kodzoff, another defendant Asked if he thought the man he pointed to was Kobak, the witness replied he did it M.ef 1 Kobak and Beavert were at the A. B. Hall before the march started, he said, and stated Beavert tore up some cards which were being passed out for the men who wanted to work 2 to sign. The others, he claimed, were in the line of resistance at the union
 hall sss
 Further Witnesses
 ]. Two other witnesses called this morning were Malcolm McCallum : and Al Lundstrom The former is. an A. J. employee and Lundstrom is a r, pioneer resident of Juneau, and was . a special police officer on the day Of the trouble. McCallum identi- . fled Benny Larsen as one of the de- { fendants he had seen trying to keep men from registering at the A. J..
 office. He said he knew no one else, although he explained he saw some other men pushing Asked if he had
 seen any clubs in evidence around
 the A. J. office, the witness said he
 had but could not remember how many.
 :, Lundstrom told of how, he said,
 George Kodzoff, one of the defend-
 ants. took club away from him near
 the union hall on the Lower Fron.
 Street during the alleged riot. He said another man, whom he did not
 know, assisted Kodzoff. The witness said he finally was able to recover
 the club from the men, which he explained he had been carrying in
 his hand.
 Asked on crcss examination if he had used fl1s ciuD, the witness said
 he had not but would have done so if he thought it was necessary. He !, did not use it on Kodzoff, he de- clared, because Kodzoff grabbed it
 from him before he could act. The
 witness described the club as about
 16 inches in length and about an
 inch in diameter He said it had been
 issued to him by Chief of Police Roy
 Hoffman when he had been commits stoned special officer. Howard
 Stabler, attorney for Bill Taroff and
 Kodzoff, asked Lundstrom if he was
 sure of Kodzoff and special officer
 insisted he was as he had seen the man about town hundreds of times over a period of years.
 Mstkovsky Star Witness Anato1e Matkovsky, widely known
 Juneau resident and employee of the Alaska Juneau mine for some 10
 years, made star witness for the
 government late yesterday afternoon. IUnruffled, and in a clear, calm voice,
 Matkovsky answered the questions
 put to him on both direct and cross
 examination. He related how he had
 seen the defendants Warren Beavert,
 Bill Taroff, George Kodzoff and {. Simon Graner at the A. B. Hall prior
 to the march to the "A. J. office and stated they were shouting and ere
 ating disturbance He named the
 latter three as men he had seen in
 the line of resistance near the union hall. Graner, he testified, struck at W. W. Solovieff, another well known mine employee. He recounted how he had witnessed the arrest of Alex 1Daroff and Frank Agoff and once
 saw Harry Datoff, another defend , |ant, for a fleeting moment.
 [ Didn't Consider It Real Strike ? The witness stuck closely to his , testimony and efforts to shake him : on cross examination were futile. He l stated he had known the men hs ? referred to for years and was not : mistaken in his Identification. Mat
 kovsky explained that he had beer Q a member of the Alaska Mine Work t lers Union but had left that organi- ,, Ization immediately before the mint : shutdown He said he did not gt | out on strike with the union as h, e did not consider it strike in accord e ance with the constitution of tn,
 Iunion IS he understood It.