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Show ETTOR URGED I ONLY PEACE I Witnesses Testify That H I. W. W. Leader Told Strikers to Fold Arms M Salem, Mass., Nov. 5. That mill- H tiamen and police made no effort to H prevent the attacks on street carE in IH Lawrence on the morning of January H 29, and that the cars were besieged IB by aa organized gang of about 20 men, IH was the testimony yesterday of I eo H Ready, one of the textile strikers, VW at the trial of Ettor, Glovannttti and JmM Caruso for 'the murder of Anna Lo- H plzzo. " Ready said he was near the IH scene of the riot Hhat morning and JmM that the strikers were peaceful. H Several Lawrence women and chll- IH drcn workers testified that police and H militiamen clubbed the strikers. H Thomas Holliday, who was one of IH the American members of the strike H committee, testified he never heard IH Ettor urge violent action. The wit- IH ncss quoted one of Ettor's speeches IH to the strikers as follows. H "The greatest power of the work- lM lng people is when they do nothing H and remain absolutely qnlet with their H arms folded. As soon as you fold H your arms there will be no one to IH build automobiles for the rich. Then tM will you have the capitalist class at H yoin mercy and be on the way to vie- H "Already we have accomplished IH here what 1.000 years of Christianity jH liave not done. We hae brought to- H gethcr in one body the Italian and IH the Turk, the Frenchman and the H German, the Englishman and the Ir- H Ishman. Stand together solidly: let VM there be no violent uprising, and we IH |