Show ARKANSAS 1191 L HEARING BEGUN JUDGE EXPLAINS FORMATION OF COMMITTEE IN TION DY BY legislature people of section dependent on road insulted and intimidated first witness tells IT arrison ark the dependence of this section of arkansas on tho the mis its bourl arkansas railroad together with tile increase in the number of depredations along the ho railroad rail rond started tho the movement mo ement which resulted in the for formation forni maton iton of tile citizens corn com according to the testimony of county judge 11 blassingill the first witness called callea wednesday before tho the arkansas legislative committee in vesti gating the disorders along the road the legislative legislate 0 committee la is in quiring into conditions along the road load incident to a strike which begun two years ngo ago and the lynching lunching lyn ching sev se eral months a 00 0 o of I 1 K U J gregor a striker for more than two years the people in this country were bull dozed bull ragged insulted boycotted boycott od and 11 judge 11 assin ill testified wo IVO got tired of it and it beamed we hid to take tho the matter in hand to sany where wo we are we felt that these strikers could leave leao cheaper than we could wo dug out this wilderness they they left the strikers imagined themselves a favored faired few A brakeman walking out of at our earn corn mitten room 1 I cant ue live on 6 OSO 90 11 day that Is more money than I 1 ever made in a day three or four hundred strikers felt they could run this country regardless of three or four hundred thousand persons iier sons we cannot live ahe without tills this rall roid road without it we could have hao no industries |