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Show AFFIDAVITS DY : HUNDREDS TO SLOW HEARING Government Seeks to Show There Was Widespread Rail Plot. CHICAGO Sept 13. (By The Associated As-sociated Press.) Efforts of the attorneys at-torneys for tle striking shopcraft leaders to forestall the reading of the additional hundreds of the 20,000 affidavits af-fidavits of violence produced by the government in support of Its injunction injunc-tion bill failed again today. The government rejected all overtures over-tures for speeding up th-2 case bv eliminating or classifying the affidavits affida-vits and Judge .Tames H Wllkorson sustained the prosecution's right ;o the broadest latitude In its efror: to show by a chain of natloU-wldo outbreaks out-breaks what it claims Is a concerted conspiracy to destroy interstife traffic traf-fic by intimidation of railway ':n- plO es The court took occasion, however, to warn the attorneys for the government gov-ernment that the temporary restraining restrain-ing order now in force will expire September 22 and cannot lie extended extend-ed even If the present hearing on an injunction to replace it is not com- Plot! d. FINISH nv FRIDAY Blackburn Estcrline, assistant solicitor soli-citor general, assured the court the government could complete Its case-before case-before tho tlme-llmlt expired and said he hoped to finish the reading of the affidavits by Friday night or Saturday Satur-day noon Donald R. Rtchberg, attorney for B. M. Jewell and John Scott, president and sebretaiy -treasurer, respectively, of the shopcrafta organisation, made several attempts this morning to check the continued --dory of assault and intimidation of men who replaced the strikers. "if it Is the purpose of the affa-davlts affa-davlts being presented by the attorney attor-ney general merely to convince tho court that there has been many acts of lawlessness and violence accom-panylng accom-panylng the present strike, the presentation pre-sentation of further affidavits is en-t en-t tlrelv unnecessary." he told the court. CONTENTIO DISREGARDED "Disregarding the contention of the defendants that aids of violence have been serlousl) exaggerated that a large percentage have been proved or actually brought ubout by ugents or employes of the railvva companies, it can nevertheless be conceded that a sufficient number of acts of lawlessness lawless-ness in various pacts of the country 'ran be proven to make n desirable to utilise any lawful power of government govern-ment In any lawful way n prevent such acta. 'This has been tho poHillon of the railway employe..' orga nl .it ions irom the beginning. They have not opposed op-posed any of the Iniuii. tions Issue d. and the scores of these Injunctions have been Issued and tboy haVe taken tak-en the position that they welcoAii every ev-ery effort on tlie part of th- government govern-ment authorities, und would co-operate with such effort, to prevent, restrain re-strain and punish lawlessness and violence." vio-lence." kNNOT OL ssirv i II KM The discussion revealed that all of the evidence being presented by the government has been gathered Hince the temporary restraining order was Issued on September 1. lr Bsterllne and his associates told the court that while some 10,000 affidavits have n gathered, all have not reached Chica- ( Continued on I'ago Two.) I AFFIDAVITS EY HUNDREDS TO SLOW HEARING (Continued From Pace One) go and it Is Impossible to classify them according to subject matter, a3 suggested sug-gested by Mr. Itlchberg. The defense attorney said he would bo willing to agree to the admission of the affidavits affidav-its In the quantities if they were classified class-ified as cases of violence by unknown parties, of violence In the course of picketing, violence by known strikers, and similar subjects. A large package of Texas affidavits relating to the stories of employes of 'various Texas short lines who have been beaten shot at Intimidated and assaulted, arrived Tuesday nlht and were Introduced today by Mr. Ester-line. Ester-line. nn |