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A DEFENSE OF THEHARRISON (ARK.) PEOPLEHow driven to Desperation by Malicious Union Labor Destruction of Property, They Called a Public Meeting of Citizens, Went Before the Grand Jury and Restored Order.(Thu following statement was written to the .Manufacturers Record bya well known and reliable Western newspaper man. As he travels on railroads operated by union railroad men he requests that his name shall not he used, because of the annoyances to which it, would subject him. We regard it as only fair to publish this side of the case as viewed by Harrison people since we vigorously criticised the lynching at that place. —Editor Manufacturers Record,)Senator Brooks Norfleet, planter and lawyer, of St. Francis County, and chairman of the committee appointed by the recently adjourned Arkansas legislature to investigate the so-called uprising of the citizens along the Missouri North Akansas rail day, against striking employees of that road, closed the session at Harrison, ond March 23, with the following .pertinent remarks:“in response to an invitation of the people of North Central Arkansas, this committee came here to take evidence. It has heard every citizen of this section who wished to testify before it, and it has been glad to listen to what they have had to say. I would be remiss if I did not respond to the splendid American citizenship as developed by the people of this section of our great state, a citizenship in which the independent spirit of Jackson and Cromwell/ has been shown. The issue between capital and labor will be settled at last by, American citizens, as it has been settled by the people of Boone County, and North Arkansas. The rights of property under the constitution are sacred. In America the man who assumes a power not justly his due will have to suffer the consequences.”
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Harrison Daily Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Mon, Jul 02, 1923
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