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Show Hi DECLARE POLICE Hi CLUBBED STRIKERS Witnesses Testify In Behalf of Ettor H, And Textile Strike H Leaders. Salem, Mass., Nov. 4. That mill- tlamen and pollco made no effort to prevent the attacks on street cars in Lawrence on the morning of January Jan-uary 29 and that tho cars were besieged be-sieged by an organized gang of about twenty men, was tho testimony today to-day of Leo Heady, ono of the tex-tllo tex-tllo strikers at tho trial of Ettor, Olovannltti nnd Caruso for tho murder mur-der of Anna Lopizzo, Heady said ho was near tho sccno of tho riot that morning and that tho strikers were peaceful. Sovoral Lawrence women and children chil-dren workers testified that pollco and militiamen' clubbed tho strikers. Thomas Holllday, who was ono of tho American members of tho strlko committee, testified ho novcr heard Ettor urgo violent action. Tho witness wit-ness quoted ono of Ettor's speeches to tho strikers as follows: , "Tho greatest power of tho working work-ing peoplo is when they do nothing and remnln absolutely quiet with their arms foldcdMAs soon as jbu fold your nrms there will bo no ono to build automobiles for tho rich. Then you will have tho capitalist class nt your mercy and bo on the way to victory. "Already wo havo accomplished hero what 1000 years of Christianity havo not done. Wo hnvo brought together to-gether In ono body tho Italian and tho TitTk, tho Frenchman nnd tho German, tho Englishman nnd tho Irish mnn. Stnnd together solidly, let thcro bo no violent uprising, and wo will win." |