Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-09 | Page 1 | Striker Who Urges Return Made Victim

ISTIEI is : ; ' it IT! Sabotage and Violence Advised Ad-vised by One Speaker At Chicago Meeting : i ;tm proud to be 1 i rebel," he declares j Details of Destruction in Twin i Cities Strike Related by Radical ' j CIIICAQO. ,.AarlU&One vwitcn-1 jihrin was .fhot and askeral slugged at (meetings of the, striking railroad men i j last niht, poJIce learned' today. j J John Krlntz, a striker, who pro-; pro-; posed that the jumi return to.-work,-: , ed away In an automobile by Trlends. : ; Sabotage and violence was advo-j , cated by one of the speakers, E. A. ' Esty. a C Y. A. orfttuiizcr, who par-I ticlpaled Jn tho Gary stoel strike and! ' several labor disturbances here. ' ; "They call me a' rebel." Esty told 1 i the strikers. "Tin proud to bo a rebel. 1 , In 1310 l had charge of a railroad1 strike in the Twin Cities Minneapolis! and St. Paul. The men all went out j and stayed out. i "I went down to the- I. AV. AN, head-! head-! quarters and got some help. Thon ono day four passenger trains wero wrecked. Tho next) .day seven freight j trains were wrecked. Then wo sent , word icf the railroads .that If they didn't come across, wod tear down ; tho roundhouse. They didn't answer wo did. The roundhouse was torn I down. v ! "Thci the railroads begged for, mercy. Tind asked 16 meet us. AVe i told them to como to ua. There was, a meeting:. Tho union drew up a contract and tho railroad refused It. j The next day wo blew up a bridge. That nlcht an Ice Jam formed in the river anil tore down tho rest of the bridge, so they don't know to this day who dl4 the Job. But we won the strike. '. "I dIdT ninety days In jail for block-ins: block-ins: tho malls, I got off li.tht because I told the Judge I didn't know the law. But of course I knew it then as well as I do now." -oo