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Show SAYS ETTOR WAS VIOLENT Witness Declares Strike Leader Talked of the French Revolution Saiom, Mass . OcL IS. Testimony that Joseph J., Ettor leader of the Lawrence textifo strike, had advised tho strikers to 'keep the gun fhop3 busy" and had urged thorn not to fear the police or the "tin Foldiers wltn tholr sharp bayonets" was clven yes-tculay yes-tculay in tho trial of Ettor, Arturo Giavannltti and JoBeph Caruso, charged charg-ed with the killing of Anna Lopizzo, a mill operativp, during the strike la.si winter. Two Lawrence officers testified that Giovannltti had expressed to them defiance of the police and soldiem and James P Donahue, a BoBtou newspaper man, recounted speeches alleged to have been made by Ettor at Lawrenc which the commonwealth Is endeavoring to show were inflammatory inflam-matory and led to rioting, resulting In the deatli of tho Loplzzo woman Donahue, who wns nt Ltiwicnco throughout the strike, testified that In addressing one meeting, after a younu woman had described industrial conditions con-ditions in tho textile mills, Ettor declared- "That leminds me of the Kronen involution Tho workeis went to ih masters and asked for aread. Tho masters told thorn to go and eat caKe Again they vont to the masters and j they told them to go and eat grass and a short time afterward the lamp poets of Pans wore hung with rlu heads of the masters and in their mouths were wisps o.f grass. On another occasion Donahue, said Ettor told tho strikers- "Someone is going to be got befoio tills is ovor. and ace to it that it isn't you." The tvltnecs admitted knowledge o discussions amonc the strike lcadoi oer making application to carrj fiie arms. ""Don't you know that when Ettor said he was going to carry a gun himself ho also said he was going !o nimlv tor fi normlf in pnrri- if'" "I didn't hear him say he wa; going go-ing to ?cc a permit." , The witneF insisted that what he iiad heard Ettor snj was; "You keep the gunshop busy. I m going to fire a gun myself." "Didn't you henr Ettor say at meeting addressed by Mayor Scauloi that there should be no violence oi bloodshed0" "No. J heard him sav that he agreed with Mayor Scanlon that the strike should be rottlcd Toacofully. He alsc raid- if there Iv? any bloodshed it will lie on tho heads of the masters ! and not the strikers.'" j co ! |