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Show BRUTALITY OF THE COLOR AD0MIL1TI A Denver. Dec. 7 Constitutional guarantees v;rre wlprd out by Adjutant Adju-tant General Chase as head of th Colorado militia; miners were robbed by the militia; that body was recruited recruit-ed with "scoundrels", and the right of learcfa had been exercised by the militia, mili-tia, whilo the chil courts wr-re open, was the trend of the testlraonv of Prr fessor James II Brewster of the Unl reitlty of Colorado, attorney for the United Mi no Workers boforc the congressional con-gressional committee testifying before the rederal commission on Industrial relations today Professor Brewster had bcpn chairman chair-man of the 8ta.tc federation of labor committee that investigated th strike in December. 1912. on tho authorization authori-zation of Governor Ammons. He declared that Lieutenant K B (Monty) Llnderfelt ,ln charge of tlv machine gun at the Ludlow battle, was a "brute, unfit to associate frith anybody," and that because of his brutality the commltt had asked that he be suspended on Januan.- 20 1914 "Had he been suspended then," he declared. "Ludlow would never hare happened." He asserted Llnderfelt had trained the gun on the Ludlow colony during a search of the colony by the Inllltti for weapons and. patting the gun, declared de-clared he could sweep the whole colony. Threat Is Alleged. At that time, the witness said, Llnderfelt Lln-derfelt was making threats against Louis Tikas. whom he assaulted on the nipht the Ludlow battle was on. breaking the stock of a rifle over his head, Adjutant General John Chase, he said, "thinks he Is a soldier, thinks there is war. and thinks that way because he annot help It He hon-estlv hon-estlv thinks he Is a soldier " Chase had enlarged the milltnry district dis-trict under th" Moyer decision, whlcn. ho declared, vas a blot on the Jurisprudence Juris-prudence of Colorado until It included the whole state. Louis Tikas. leader of the Greeks, who was killed in the Ludlow fight, he declared was a factor for peac In the Ludlow colony He was a graduate of fh University of Athens. He related the verdict of the court martial at which Llnderfelt was exonerated ex-onerated for the killing of Tlkas. "1 am not attempting to justify the events that followed Ludlow." ho aald "but If those Greeks had been Americans, they would have risen long before." He characterized the arrest of "Mother" "Mo-ther" Jones by the militia as one of the greatest outrages on American jurisprudence. ju-risprudence. He related the arrest of a woman who struck a militiaman because he shoved her during a parade at Trinidad. Trini-dad. It was necessary to Incarcerate Incarcer-ate her children with her that they be fed. He declared merchants of Huerfano and L?.s Anim.ia counties had 1 l intimidated by the company "with loss of financial and social position " A glance of an attorney's eye was sufficient to "fix" a Mexican jury that tried accident cases, he declared, and he narrated the case of a mine guard deputv sheriff tried by a jury of seven sev-en or eight brother deputies in Huerfano Huer-fano county and exonerated for breaking break-ing a miner's jaw This was in the "kingdom of Jeff Farr." he said. The witness said he had seen 0 youth, whose head had been cut open "b Llnderfelt because one of Linder-felt Linder-felt s men had driven his horse against a barbed wire fence in crossing cross-ing the open prairie and at that time Linderfelt believed someone had stretched barbed wire across the road with malicious intent Refers to Nominations. Ho read excerpts from campaign speeches of Judge Northcutt. now the attornev for the Colorado Fuel ft iron company, and Judge McHendrie declaring that the nominations to office of-fice in southern Colorado had been made on a basis of being "satisfactory to the company H The speeches were made before Northcutt became allied with the Colorado Colo-rado Fuel & Iron company and before be-fore McHendrie had been elected district dis-trict judge. "If Mr. Welborno believes a small part of what he says." said the witness wit-ness "he is the most unsophisticated business man T ever heard of He put his business before his citizenship citizen-ship his riehts before society's rights, before any right." he declared. "As he said at the congressional investigation, investi-gation, it is his own business and he intends to run it In his own way. See what damage he has done." Professor Brewster began his testi-monv testi-monv after President J F. Welborne of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company had concluded and had arranged to divulge di-vulge the name of the writer of the company's publicity pamphlets and I to Lbmlt to the commission all tho tele-I tele-I crams received from the eastern dl-! dl-! rectors of the company during the strike Tells of Tragedies. ( In conclusion, Mr. Welborne told 01 the shooting of Marshal Lee on Sep- Iteinber 24 1913. the day after the call of the strike, the killing of mine BUard8 at La Vetaj how phyalclana bad been kept from going to the I wounded men for two hours Mine accidents cguld be charged to overhead expenses only If a national law was enacted, he said; otherwise, the extra burden would turn the local lo-cal consumption field over to competitors com-petitors from other states. The Colorado Colo-rado Fuel & Iron company carried no accident insurance, preferring to settle set-tle directly with claimants. Tat -- I only reason for the unrest In Colorado Colo-rado was the Introduction of a law- I less element by the United Mine , I Workers of America, he said. Had I the laws been enforced, and the mill- I tla used vigorously the strike would I have ended quickly, he thought. I |
