Show i I I i I I I I I I I I 1 I If IN I IT T Witnesses ses From Idaho Describe Describe Describe De De- De- De scribe Activities pf of Accused I Testimony to ba Q be inc Included in in inthe the record when the preliminary hearing of the ten striking switchmen is b begun gun Wednesday before United States Comm Commissioner Henry V. V VanPelt Van VanI VanPelt I Pelt for all alleged ged violation vio of the Lever act was heard yesterday by Judge I 1 Van Pelt Five rive witnesses from Idaho were w re examined that they might return to their homes without further delavIn delay delav I In the meantime all further proceedIngs proceedings proceeding's proceedings proceed proceed- ings ing's will go over until 10 o o'clock clock May 5 5 United States District Attorney Isaac Blair Evans E represented the government in fn In the examination and andI W W. S S. Dalton appeared for the defendants defendants de de- W V J J. J L Lemon mon G G. G G G. SherI Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man man A A. B B. Hill William Moore 1 W W. r. r T ROdd Rodda Q W Wi G G. Hill J J. A A. Smith Smith C C. P. P Wise Vise R B. E E. Tolbert and nd W W. J J Tierney r i iI TESTIMONY Ar ADDUCED DU ED G G G. H I. Oram o of Boise Ida Jda Jda general genera chairman of the Order of of Railway Hallway Conductors on the Oregon Short Line told of a meeting of the yardmen at Pocatello on April 18 when the men were addressed by Lemon Rodda and andone andt tone one me Jacob Cohen Cohen- He said Lemon LemonI t did not no not urge the men to quit wOrk explaining J th that t he lie was was' address ng th them m I In no the interests of a new or or-j outlined In a pamphlet he was distributing This pamphlet was addressed To Railway Workers and Workers in General and Lemon ex explained ex- ex according to the witness that it might eventually take in all all workers George Hunt of Pocatello vice ren- ren n- n eral oral chairman n of of the Brotherhood d of Railway y Trainmen described the same meeting and said Lemon told the men the new organization might soon take in the San Francisco lodge C C. L L. Autra switchman at Pocatello Pocatello Poca Poca- tello told of the walkout and the daily dally meetings of the men I C C. C D D. Waring Pocatello switchman and local chairman of the Brotherhood Brotherhood Brotherhood Brother Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen said there were vere Yere men employed at the Pocatello Poca Poca- tello tehlo yards ards on April 8 when the walkout occurred He said he at attended attended attended at- at tended the mens men's meetings but did not hear lear t ar the word strike used Patrick E E. Marrinan 1 special agent for the department of justice at Boise told of talking to Lemon and Rodda on the night of the meeting April 18 IS about their proposed or organization The They told him he said that there were no national officers and no other locals than the ones at Salt Lake i Ogden and and- Pocatello just formed He said they told him the men were acting as Individuals Lemon de declared declared de- de deI I dared himself a Socialist and not not an I I. I W W. W W. according to th the witness The witness said there had been no no strike as far as he could learn x xIt It It was just a a. case of spontaneous combustion of ot the human variety he said |