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Show BLAMES ROADS FOR VIOLENCE Johnston Says Work Is That of Paid Railroad Emissaries. WASHINGTON'. July v Belief that .much of the Violence ami Interference with the operation of the railway systems sys-tems Of the r , 1 1 tit r . ubirii h.iv, bet n charged against striking railway shop-men shop-men vvns in reality the work of paid ( ml-saries of the various railroad terns was expresed today by William J Johnston, preshient of the International Interna-tional association of machinists, one of the organisations lmving nemberav I on strike "I do not wi6h to charge dlrectl) HI lithat the railroads arc sponsoring moves v. hlch will Indicate that union 'workmen are participating in mov -.iOitnts of violence. ' said Mr. Johnston. '"It Is my belief, however, that ntU( h r the disturbance already, laid at the i door of the striking railroad w ,.!posslbly be charged up to the railroads : hemxelvcs. A great many of the rail' systems employ what is known as op- I orators. OPERATORS AT EULT "These op.-rators mingle with strlU-I it rs. express sympathy with their cause, and very frequently precipitate railroad disorder The strikers then J )rc charged with being ti lawless lol "During the railroad strike of 1920, and 1911," Mr. Johnston continued.; several of our union workmen were thrown in Jail and Qhorced With at-rumpled at-rumpled destruction of railway property, prop-erty, Inw-tiation resulted in tl e ,i-xst ,i-xst oi on.- man who had in his pes-! X' -sion dynamite cases and who it wax I disclosed on the witness stand was the' grime mover in the disturbances . nd hd for two years been In the employ of the railroad which charged the un-ipn un-ipn men with destroln propertv. in view of our past experiences with, these operators or private detectives ! we naturally feel that when strikers are accused of crimes it is always well t determine precisely who has been responsible for the commission of the crime." no- . |