Show I PICKET PI KET THREATS TOLD JOLD TO COURT Witnesses Relate Hearing Union Organizers Urge Action Special to The Telegram PRICE Sept 21 21 Iwo Two witnesses testified that Paul Crouch Charles and Charles Guynn organizers or or- for the N National Miners Union unon un un- ion on urged pl pickets to hold the lines at all aU costs during the recent coal strike at Spring canyon as preliminary preliminary nary ary hearings hearings' on charges of criminal sYndicalism syndicalism radicalism opened for for- forthe the three e men meri today oday I L r Fred Kilfoyle whose home at Spring pring can onis situated near where picket lines were established and hisson his hison hisson son on Booth both testified th that t the men made frequent speeches to the strikers ers rg and that trucks were used to block Lock roads agai against st automobiles s. s Both ati alS also sai said i that that many of the pickets carried pick handles for clubs dubs Booth Kilfoyle testified that the defendants told the pickets that if officers attempted to break up up the lines ines the strikers should r resist the efforts and throw back any tear bombs that were tossed at them The hearings were before Judge J. J W. W L Hammond and were continued until unil un- un til il afternoon Arthur S. S Horsley local ocal attorney Is representing County Att Attorney Walter WaIter C. C Gease in the prose- prose cution ution Hearings for 26 National l union men charged barged with rioting were to begin this his after afternoon on |