Show JUDGE ON TRIAL congressional investigation of the strike injunction A MOST UNUSUAL proceeding the Tho house Hou subcommittee sub committee will aseer tain to what extent extant Employ oo have been oppressed festl testimony ma ny indies tiner duplicity on tho the part P a rt of the man A chicago lel senta dional statements milwaukee wis april 9 tho tha ape spectacle c of a united states judge on tri trial at before it congressional commission is ia being presented lit in milwaukee at 3 this thin afternoon cc congressmen li gress boatner of terry of arkansas Arkan sL and W A stone of pennsylvania composing a nub aub com committee cittee of tho the judiciary committee of the house if 0 use of representatives began tho the dinv inv investigation of judge audgo jenkinss fa famous northern pacific strike Jn injunction junction during the afternoon E E dark clark representing the order of 0 It railway allwaY conductors duc tors and T P sargent representing the order of railway trainmen were aarn swo m Attorn attorney cy harper ll arper representing a railway employees organization attorney curtis of 0 new york representing the tha receivers and attorney milter miller of this city who assisted him we wore re present receivers rayne payne and oak oakes e a and 1 ex x senator J C spooner ero also inter ested spectators aruthur ramsey wilkinson a and nd clark aro arc chiefs of the various brotherhoods brothe of railway employees chairman boatner opened the besshan by giving a simple pimple outline we of what the committee had been instructed to do its authority etc ile he said paid the committee wished especially t to ascertain how far and in what respects the order had oppressed tho the employees ani and suit just how the men had constructed the order CHIEF CLARKS TESTIMONY grand chief clark was sworn he eald bald his organization provided that a committee representative of all the conductors in a particular CA case s a 5 shall hall look into tho the grievance and report to him he looks into it and if he thinks the facts warrant what action the committee may decide to take lie he gives its his sanction without this thili sanction the strike would lie le illegal the committee went to ta st paul december and for a meeting the on that date the committee was informed by general manager kendrich Kendri ct that things were not then in shape tor for acon conference terence but would the december Is id the date upon which tho the injunction was granted Is it not said mr boatner Boat ncr yes the first injunction december the committee called at hendricks domce and a conference was held and is 13 it not it a tact fact I 1 put in attar ney harper that a secret injunction was issued the day before no a supplemental injunction was granted december at the conference held december however th the a representatives of the read hold held their answer until december then before the answer was given asked mr air boatner Do atner this supplemental injunction was issued yes sir air mr dark clark paid the road had given the employees notice some time before it was proposed to reduce wages th that A t bu such ell action had bad been taken he ba had d not at been lean solved with the injunction although a united states marshal he had hunted for him mr dark clark felt hound by tile the order however and would not have sanctioned a strike under tile the circumstances cum curn stances in regard to wages he said the men were in one sense nork mork ing on a scale agreed upon and in another sense they were not mr clark said he be did not think the injunction had done any harm barm so far as the northern pacific employees were concerned but that it had been harmful in a general way to workingmen as aa he belivia it was an abridgement abridge ment of 0 their constitutional rights and eq established a precedent which would be followed by all the courts had not congress been called up on to investigate mr air sargents Sargen Sar gents Cs testimony was practically to the same effect mr ramsay and arthur will be on the stand tomorrow |