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Wednesday TestimonyBefore Legislative Investigating CommitteeWoods of Marshall TestifiesJudge Wood, of Marshall, testified yesterday before the investigating committee that his committee was merely an investigating . body and claimed no criminal jurisdiction. It ordered no one to leave town, he said, but advised Gregor, along with a number of others, was held for a second examination. Judge Wood said he did not know any violence was intended and did not know of the hanging of Gregor until 8 o’clock next morning. He did not know if P. A. Decker claimed to have part of the rope Gregor was hung with, as reported by one J. S. Taylor.Judge Wood declared that the railroad did not promote the movement nor was he .approached by any of the railroad people 011 the subject. Me said the people were influenced to take the steps they did only by the strikers and their sabotage and violence.After the railroad shut down, Mr. Wilson of the State Department of Labor reported 1400 unemployed men in the thinly inhabitated county of Searcy. Cars of ties, staves, cedar, etc. stood just where they were at the time of the shut-down until the road opened again, and their number reached into thousands.Wood toid of the destitute condition of the people until the spring of 1922, when the road re-opened and industries revived.When the sabotage was resumed with threefold vigor, and the suffering people found the railroad must-stop again unless they came to its assistance, they resolved that the road should run and said the Judge, “Unless the authors of these depredations keep their hands off of us,I ------------------
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Harrison Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Fri, Mar 23, 1923
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