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Show ETTOR DECLARES HE OPPOSEDVIOLEWCE Says He Counselled Order; Accuses Employers of' Planting Dynamite."- SALT2M, Mas., Nov. 12. Defending himself against a charge that he was an accessory before the fact lo the 'killing of Anna Loplzzo, during the Lawrence textile strike last winter. Joneph J. Kt-tor, Kt-tor, leader of that Industrial conflict, today to-day faced the Jury iwhieh is trying him. together with Arluro Clovannltti and Joseph Caruso. Kttor was on the stand several hours repealing to the Jury Ids recollection of addresses be made to the (strikers, detailing de-tailing Incidents of the struggle -and the conferences with the mill owners and the authorities. Kttor insisted that from the beginning of tho strike he counselled against violence, vio-lence, urging on the people that the way for them to win was to keen away froiii the mills, and to "do nothing." ISttoi continued: "Capital, r told them, had properly to sustain It. that it had the police, tin-army, tin-army, the laws, the constitution to aid In its defenses; lhal capital had everything every-thing money and agents to plant dynamite dyna-mite to provoke the enemy, meaning the workers. But the workers. I told . them, had more nower than all that the now- er of solidarity of purpose and action, greater than bombs. " 'Workers.' I said to them, 'you need not fight the same'wav that 'capital opposes op-poses you. When Workers of tho Wor'd want to win. tho thing for thorn to' do Is nothing. Fold your .arms and the work of the world will slop. Put your hands In your pockets and the capitalists cannot can-not put their hands in their. Lie absolutely abso-lutely silent and' you are. more powerful than all the weapons of the other sjdp for offense and defense.' " TSttor outlined tho strikers' demands including that for a 15 per cent increase In wages. Me added: "Mr. Wood said to me when 1 asked for a definite message: 'Tell the strikers strik-ers to go back to work, that T cannot afford to pav them this. Tell thorn also that neither can I afford to have them go back to work discontented and that 1 will do something for them soon. "That was very indefinite, practically nothing, and when I reported it to the strike committee it was agreed that we should continue the struggle and not treat with the mill owners until they sent for us and assured . us. .that, tbey would talk business." Ettor charged the employers with planting the dynamite in Lawrence. |