| Show I I I THE 11 1 INsh AT UTTIMini ly j i ropl Detect Slow They Were TooI1 1 t 1 I by ill Strik 1 I I t i 1 I WlkllmIa Feb 2IOMnitto I I the mass of business tn court Judge uJec m nr t I Woolluvird decided there should be no I j oldoy todDy Ilut Bald he I dm pyropriate I Ph ropriate that we observe the till i 318 earing Washin tons I lareuell ad I 1 I 2reade and I hae regimented Mr Scarlet Y kT 11 l I I IS T tl r I I I 1 I to read it There Wd IS burt 01 up platicie nt him tinnouncement and the 111 nnnlncmenl cadrnVi glJJn refSTtte lion reading man given careful attention The first witness of thb day wan Mrs James Edmond utio In nt IDr nooil I Mho said that on the day of the 1 hooting nhe heard a neighbor shout Skin out the strikers are coming 1 taw the t men they all bad C lubii sh 1 ontlnued They found my husband arid tried to get him ftwaY J lrlh nlm anti after a lot of uietlbs I they It him go A neighbor gave tile a bIt stne and said I should throw It If they tried to get my mal again They did try and threw some utonen They threatened threat-ened to knock inj brains out Some tried to get Into the house to takn my sick son but I told them that It they cam li Ihy1 Ile dd hel the went jut Thy Lnt tinny then James Hdmondson husband of lh previous wltnerx said he heard his neighbor Mrs ODonnell shout to him that the Ptrikers were coming and hey had better get put Continuing he witness said 11 went with my two board rs but hardly bad wu got out before the strikers caught us They dragged me along a couple of hundred yards and then my wife rescued me All the strikers were armed Peter Wolfe I driver at the liar wood colliery satdl On the Friday woo gathered to march to Lat timer 1 came down to the eompony Imr and me locked ourselves tn Af termard ulien we thought the slrlkern hall gone w e went out On mn had < ale with n big club for a long I stance and I finally escaped by Jumping through the window of my he ell Y USR Charter Mullen and two friends were pursued by the strikers who rhoutM We will hot you and nrnlly they ned two shots at them an they got Into I the bush John Hippie told how he was threatened threat-ened bv armed strikers but they did him n harm Thomn Nellis testified that six mn who were wot king under his llrelon on jhe public J highway when the strikers strik-ers COMO alonrc were forced to stol I their work and Join the marchers The men were employed In public work but lb strikers by their threatening attitude atti-tude compelled them to leave Seven othi women and two men gave testimony during the afternoon as to the terror prevailing among the pro Pill anti the assaults made by the strlk is upon men who hesitated when called on to Join th marchers Mrs Dlizalifth Mumle saW the strikers fire several shots |
