Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-11-08 | Page 5 | Never Urged Violence

NEVER URGED VIOLENCE Defense Witnesses In Ettor Trial Say Strike Was Peaceful Salem, Mass., Nov. S, That Governor Gov-ernor Foss found it necessary during the Lawrence textile strike to Increase In-crease the military forcos on guard there to preserve tho peace was testified tes-tified to today by Dudley M Holman, former secretary to the B0VQrmr, in tho Ettor-Giovannittl-Caruso trial for the Loplzzo murder. Mr. Holman, on cross-examination, said he heard Colonel Sweetzor, who was In command of tho mUItla, ardor tho soldiers to clear tho streets of strikers on tho morning of January 29, when the street car riots occurred. oc-curred. "I heard tho colonel give tho order, and I saw th soldiers carry it out," said Mr. Holman. Testimony relating to the planting of dynamite in Lawrence was admitted admit-ted In limited form by Judge Qulnn, attorneys for the defense belns permitted per-mitted to ask the witness if the strikers strik-ers believed the dynamite was planted plant-ed at the instigation or mill owners to prejudice the case of ihe strikers. strik-ers. Mrs. Joseph Milca, who until recently re-cently was Josephine LIss, one of the girls on strike, who took the Law-renco Law-renco children to Washington to appear' ap-pear' berore the houso rules committee commit-tee during the strike, testified thai. Ettor continually told tho strikers to be peaceful. "When the dynamite was found, sho said, "Mr. Ettor told the people not to believe the strikers had anything any-thing to do with It. He said It was a job of ihe capitalists "Don't prooko the mllltla, don't give tho soldiers any chance to work Let the kids freeze," was another re-1 mark attributed to Ettor In the tes-1 tsmony of Frank Rcldor, a mill work- j er- , I no