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Show , UNION OFFICIAL IS 1 THE CHJEFWITNESS j Industrial Commission Re sumes Inquiry Into Great HI Colorado Strike j EXPERIENCE IN COURT !i Scales Held by Justice on j Dome of Court House Clatter Down 5 EKNVEB Colo., Deo 1 Edward L Doyle, secretary treasurer of district 15 T7n ted Mine Workers of America, tes tlfied before the federal coram ssion on Industrial relat ons today regarding the bulletins issued by Walter H. Fink, , publicity agent for the miners in the recent coal strike 1 He declared that the bulletins had been prepared by Fink who was dl rectly respons ble for the accuracy of the statements contained in them. Questioned regarding the truth of these statements howeves Doyle asserted that they were correct so far as he knew He offered no substantiat ng testimony or opinion on the statement The witness was asked if he had evi donee to prove the charge that the Colorado Fuel and Iron company con trolled politics n Huerfano count He replied It is like ask ng a man what is airt Everyone knows what it is but when you want to demonstrate it you have to go into chem cal formulae Previous to h s testimony concern lag the responsibil ty for un on pub 1 citv, Doyle told of entering the m nes of Illinois as a trapper boy becom I; ing a miner at 17 his employment m , the northern Colorado coal f elds f rst ! as a mule dr ver and later of h s elec 1 tion as a check we ghman Alleges Fraud I As check we ghman at one mine Doyle testif ed that the miners were defrauded out of from 7 to 14 cents l a day but after he had balanced the scales the mine super ntendent com plained that the men were gett ng paid for more than they mined. The we gh boss then, he sa d shortwo ghed the freight shipments whereupon the con sumers protested against Bhort weights ' and the loss was then blamed on the railroads Doyle narrated the story of h s two trials for contempt of court on charges of violating the injunct on against the northern field miners which I he sa d prevented them from do ng I anything but eating and sleeping The tr als he said were farcica ' There waB no "jury and during the proceed mgs he said the prisoners were idea , tilled by witnesses according to the J chairs in which they sat in court Most of the men oonvicted he added had not ' been in a street fight with str ke breakers as charged In the first case the union men were sentenoed to a year in jail and a fine Before an appeal could be heard in the supreme court Doyle testified the convicting judge ( released them, Admission Forced Following his second conviction Doyle said the jailer told him that the judge I would release him if he apologized for articles which he had written and which appeared in the off cial organ of the United Mine Workers of America The witness declared that he had been I arrested for partic pation in a meet ng f orb dden by the injunction. In court he added the articles were read at the ins stenoe of the ludge who asked him . whether he was the author Denial he said would have been perjury and ad I miss on m the presence of the court wouid have meant another charge of contempt of court !He admitted the anthorsh p he s and the judge told the coal operators attorneys not the d str ct attorney to Set out a warrant On this charge he was sentenced to a year in ja 1 and lined $o00 After four months n jal and within three days of the hearing of the anneal in the supreme court the ja ler presented the request for a secret i apologv to the nudge and the witness declared he declined The following dav he was released on the order of the ndfe The appeal was never argued He did not know whether the sentence , was remitted. The fine was never pa d in e ther conv etion j This was trie last attempt of the oper ators he said to secure injunction in the state courts I don t know whether the commis tion is .superst t ous he added but the moment sentence was pronounced on our second conviction the scales held by the f gure of iust ce on the dome of the court house fell clattering to the roof of the court house Bulletins Issued There was no reffu ar nion Kuperv sion of pub c ty work Doy e Pa d The bu etins were entitled The Struggle n Co orado fo Indus a Freedom and e e ued after he ope a o s had pub lshe4 Facts About the Strugs e ln Colo rado for Industr a Freedom With the Lud ow Massacre, the union had no connect on he sa d but h s per bonal opinion as that it was based on fact. J F We born president of the Colo rado Fuel &. Iron company had asked the comm -jsloners to ascertain he authority upon whl h the sentence in this booklet was based wh ch read Jo n D Kockefe er Jr had just preached e word of God to his Sunday echoo ln New To k. I suppose it was w ttten on a Mon day a d the witness hta emen s of he cost of the str ke book e the wi ness sa d he be eved had been secured from cl PP gS" f om news pape b and the s ate aud or Staten ents In other bu e Ins declaring 1 thirty fou persons had been k ed on the strike s s de did not refer a one to the Ludiow casua es, he said The wi ess cou d not conf rm the statement that there were 1000 gunmen mported n o the s ite. T ey ooked p en ful he sa d Killing at I orbes Doy e aff rmed that at Fo bea In Feb ruary 1913 the gunmen had shot into the te t colony kl ing one man and wound ng a boy w th a mach ne gun The tent was exhibi ed throughout the Un ted States he sa d It was h s un de s and ng operators gunmen had at tacked st fkers in the so ca ed Seventh street f e t g at Wa senburg The gun men we e ater exonerated by the co rt, Doy e dec ared the bul etins were ac c rate ln his opin on v. en they accused Major Hamrock and Lieutenant I nde fe t of de berate y attack ng the Lud ow ' co ony on Apri 20 He did not know the au thority for the statement that there were tow n ach ne guns at Ludlow The fitness aff rn ed that to the best of his know edge Lo s T kas and James Fi er kl ed at Lud ow v. ere murdered and the ten s f eswlh torched T e s a ement hat Red C oss asents had been f red upon a Lud ow and d ven back vas true sa d the witness accord ing o a info ma on Further charges conta ned n tl e bul le Ins that m ne s were sho twetghled that un on men -were 1 ack sted and barred from the m nes and hat v o at ons of the state law aga nst the se of scr p we e common the w tness said were true He then read a st of unlo men who ha said ad been bea en up by m ne guards and depu y marsha s in Huerfa o and Las An mas county s nee 1D04 An ong t e names was t at of W am Falrley one of the nves gato s ecently sent to the fieds by Pre ldent 'U son said to have been a taicked at Trti idad In 1904 |