Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-18 | Page 2 | More Testimony in the Strike Inquiry

MORE TESTIMONY IN THE STRIKE INQUIRY TRINIDAD, Colo., Feb. 17. Representative Repre-sentative John M. Evans of Montana tonight to-night is the possessor of a pass signed by a lieutenant of the Colorado national guard, certifying that ho Is free to leave the Berwind mining camp. The pass flubbed the representative "Evans," for the lieutenant was unaware ho was writing writ-ing It for a member of the subcommittee subcommit-tee of tho. house mine? committee, investigating in-vestigating the coal strike. While the committee today was mak-Inir mak-Inir tentative plans to visit the camps In the Trinidad vicinity, Congressman Evans, In an automobile and with a reporter, re-porter, visited the Ludlow tent colony of strikers and tho Hastings and Berwlnd mining camps incognito and tnlkcd with participants of various armed clashes, who thought him a casual stranger. When entering the canyon to the Ber-wind Ber-wind mine, the machine was halted by an armed guardsman, who was told the party wished to drive around the camp. Easily Obtains Pass. "The lieutenant will fix you up." said the guardsman; "you've got to have a pass " Mr. Evans plodded across a railroad track, over heaps of cinders to the military mili-tary headquarters and confronted Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Lawrence. "My name's Evans," explained the Montana representative, and he gave assurance as-surance the party wished only to drive through the camp and out again, whereupon where-upon he received a pass to leavo the camp. At the Ludlow tent colony Mr. Evans's first welcome was chilly until he revealed re-vealed his identity, whereupon the manager man-ager of the strikers' camp gave him an account of events there. Mr. Evans returned In time to attend the afternoon session at Trinidad, at which Mrs. Rose Jones of Soprls testified, testi-fied, when she applied for money orders at the Soprls postoftlce, In the company's com-pany's store, she was given Colorado Fuel Iron company orders Instead, although al-though she said she Insisted on postofflce money orders. Boy Tells of Battle. Mario Zambonl, IS years old, a Tyrolean Tyro-lean boy, told a story of the battle of Forbes. The shooting lasted three hours, he said. He received five bullets in one leg and four in the other from the machine ma-chine gun turned loose by mine guards. Mrs. Mary Thomas of Ludlow, ar- rested by the militia during a Ftreet riot, sal'J she was released after eleven days, when she wrote a letter to Adjutant General Gen-eral rhasf. saying her children were crying cry-ing for her Edward P. Costigan, attorney for the United Mine Workers of America, this afternoon temporarily withdrew his request re-quest for a nubpena requiring the appearance ap-pearance of "Mother" Mary Jones as a witness before the house subcommittee subcommit-tee investigating the Colorado coal miners' strike. Considering Wages. PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 17. The subcommittee sub-committee of the bituminous coal operators opera-tors and miners of Indiana, Illinois.-, Ohio and western Pennsylvania, which is considering con-sidering the scale of wages and labor conditions con-ditions demanded by tho miners' union, got down to husiness today. Demand No. 1, "that all coal be weighed before being screened and paid for on a. mine-run mine-run basi?." was under consideration. As this is one of the principal points of dlf- fnA,Mn .l.Mtn I. ...Ill 1. 1. . iciiiiiLc, ncioic jh ii. nui jjiuuduiy extend ex-tend over several days. Donation of $50,000. FORT SMITir. Ark.. Feb. 17. Donation Dona-tion of $50,000 to aid striking Colorado miners was proposed In a resolution presented pre-sented to the southwestern district convention con-vention of tho United Mine "Workers of America here -today. Jt was said enough votes had been pledged to insure Uip resolution's adoption.