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migratory workers"
The employers-growers and ship
pers-neglecteo their workers and
their families, broke promises to
them and influenced police inter
ference with their attempts to or
ganize. Classford said.
In describing valley disturbances
in 1884, Head said the existing
situation was dynamite, that's all. -
He denied arrests and convictions
were made against union organizers
on "trumped up charges"
Heald said that at the time A. l..
Wirin, American Civil Liberties
union attorney, was seized at Braw-
ley he had sent officers to plead
with Wirin not to hold a mass
meeting.
''On one side of the track there
were about 1900 to 1000 people
milling around, Mexicans, Filipinos
and everything, and they were mad
and crazy" he related.
"On the other side there were
about 1900 white men, and they
WClC i4li4114lS d4O04AN, AlA01 o4Ad III oLy
too. 1t was the same on both
sides and the situation was very
dangerous.
He testified Wirin was kidnapped"
but later located at Calipatria and
rescued.
Tear gas was used to disperse
the MOB and in the hall where
1a r,,a0fi,ar haiy1n hold
were found 400 clubs with spikes,
Heald said.
During the trial of the leaders
who had been arrested, the de-
fense contended the clubs were for
fire wood, Heald said, but the meet
ing hall stove was brought into
court and you couldn't put club
in the stove to save your SOUL"
He introduced list of asserted
agitators and said they were practi-
cally all outsiders, charging they
advised the workers to strike land
in some cases to use violence"
Glsasford had described an at
tack on Grover c. johnson, Los
A-ool0s ottor7ey o. Ma~ch %. 1894
and said his own investigation ver-
ifiad rohrso~'s stories that Osborne
and Charles Nice, superintendent of
the county hospital, struck and
kicked johnson on the courthouse
lawn.
The statements made by Gen
eral Glassford are not true" Os-
bo-ra blu~ty cearged when called
as a witness by Senator Robert La
Toilette.
GlaSsforo, superintendent of the
Washington, D. c. police during
the 1881 bonus army occupation.
redeemed angrily and swung around
in his chair to face Osborne directly.
Nice admitted striking Johnson
but said:
"As johnson passed me he called
me a rec-baiting 49,. I
popped him after pulling off his
glasses and / hit him as hard as
I could and I hit him again.
Speaking directly at LaFollette,
Nice said:
I'd bit you or any other man
who calle M that He then de-
ried bc .as -' t. 7tto~l o.
a. -. yol-ISo--
WIS at lck a. te,tA-ed he lett
the cou4thouse alt-r the assault
had taken place. He left TO at
tempt to protect people gathered
outside from being shot by Mrs.
johnson.
osborne said she had threatened
10 "shooi up the works Osborne
said he kept nei rrom getting the
gun.
Johnson's version, which Gen.
Glassford said he had verified %
questioning witnesses including
Judge Roy McPherrin, who watched
the affair from the courthouse win
dow, was decidedly different.
johnson said Ia & letter TO Gen.
GlasslOrd. entered into the records
To-Day, that t4le1e was 10 doubt tle
aiSt.lct attorney oIlice had sent
out the order Tor 80 vigilantes 10
come from the valley 10 gather in
the courtroom where johnson was
seeking release OF Mexican union
organizers who had been arrested.
u left the courthouse and took
about four steps when Chan Liv-
ingston. director OF CWA work in
Imperial Valley, rushed out and
struck me on the temple" Johnson
said in the letter.
He shouted You red - - :
----- arguing about constitutional
law: Wen give you a taste OF our
constitutional law" -.
~Then Nice hat him and he and