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'..:-. ';'iM,i;TT tku,s i-un stoiiy An L.tcrr- 'ii-j Resume rf tSio Not I nous 1 inn! ;rullon Cases Wlika ' I cj 1 j Ur-i usboro Last V.Yc k as Civrn ty Mr. C. V.- Tl" . Uio L udinff Attorney lor tho Defense ' .The Meets to bo of Tar Ileachlng ' Importance to ' tlio Munufacturlns Hud Otlmr Interest of the Soutli ) Judge Boyd's Haling Commended Why Non-Suit Was .Not Asked , For -The Admirable Conduct Ot A si stan t Attorney General . Cooly -The Cases From Start to FlnlsU. ' t 41 'Th notable victory won by th cot , , tori MU nien In th tas at Oren ,,n boro wag the Vtaik of the town" yes- terday. The defendant, " . Messrs. Bmlth, Sargent and Dwells,' and their attorneys were, the subject of many , hearty congratulations. There have been few v cases c Media the Etate Wwhiea have been watched with more if' Interest., by all . classes, And partlcu ,arly by the 'manufacturers, and the TMavM was gratifying in the extreme, . - It Is; remarkable, too, that' outside of ,', the circle of the immediate frlendB ot i , the- parties involved, there " was 1 the Keenest la treat manifested ' by many persons r m alU, ' vcatiosA and walks of : Wffc 'uTO" the reading Carmen of the county telephoned in td Inquire about the case yesterday.vand took, occasion to say that no one knew how Intensely Interested he had been In the caset v Indeed he said he had been , alarmed more than he was wil ling to express over the possible con viction ot the cotton mill men, and he felt a a farmer that it the cases. re sulted adversely to. the cotton mill men It would be a. blow ti the manu facturing Industries.; whJofc would in turn .effect the, farming interest and, indeed,. All other. Interests In the State.1' " . ' v;, ,;v , ' . ... . The Observer realising this intense Interest in the , case,, and desiring to present to Its readers a resume of the hole -oase, sent , its reporter on; yes terday toMr, Charles f. Tlllett, who lias taken a leading part as counsel for th defendants, and requested him o give te the readers ot The Observer an outline of the origin of the cases, and a summary of the law, which it Is claimed was violated, together with incidents, connected . with , the trial which might be of interest . " - IMMIGRATION LAW. In response to the request of the re porter, Mr. Tlllett stated that the law. Which. It was 'Claimed was violated, was known as the immigration act of 1901. That act has been amended, and perhaps superseded by the act of 1Q6, whloh was passed In Congress a few days ago, but in all of its essential features, so far as the merits of this controversy are concerned, the two acts are the same. The essential dif ference between the two acts Is that under the act of 1906 a State Immi gration bureau cannot receive assist ance from individuals or corporations, Whereas under the former act, as in terpreted by the Solicitor of the De partment of Labor and Commerce, In dividuals could assist the lmlgration bureau of a State. "The law," continued Mr. Tlllett, "under which our clients were sued, provides that no person shall prepay the transportation Or assist, or en courage,, the importation of any alien in pursuance of any offers, solicita tions, promises or contracts made to or with suCh alien .to perform labor or service 4n this country, and the statute provides that every person who knowingly violates this law,, la subject to 4 penalty of "$1,000" for each alien who is thus illegally im ported. There Is, however, a provis ion in the .law, which was one of the controlling features In our. cases, and that la, the provision that skilled la bor may be Imported when labor of like kind unemployed cannot be found In this country." HISTORY OF THE CASE. N "Will you please give a brief history of these cases?" said the reporter. "Well," replied Mr. Tlllett, "that has been given so often perhaps your readers may tire of It. However, I will say that the manufacturers of Charlotte and -vicinity, realising the great" need of cotton mill operatives, formed what was known as the Tex tile Social Club. This club was formed in the spring of 1906 and, after hav ing adopted certain regulations to prevent improper solicitations of each other's employes, the members of the club turned their attention to the sub ject ef Immigration. It developed In the trial of the case that the one su preme desire of the members was not to violate the Immigration law. My law partner, Mr. Guthrie, was called toefore the club and explained tne law. Mr. D. A. Tompkins suggested that as South Carolina 'was proceeding through a State Immigration agent It would be well for the Club to do the same. An Englishman by the name of Thomas M. Costello, who had been in this country for some time, and who 'before had been Instrumental in the importation of several aliens to work in cotton mills, offered his services. and stated before the club that he understood tho im migration law, and could get all of the cotton mill operatives that were needed without any violation of the law. The club appointed Mr. E. A.' Smith and Mr. S. B. Sargent as a committee to look after the matter, and, among other tilings, to procure the appointment of a State immigra tion agent. These gentlemen went to Raleigh, and procured from Qovernor R. B. Qlenn the appointment of, Mr. Costello as State immigration 'agent Before Mr. Costello sailed for Eng land, Mr. Smith and Mr. Sargent gave him positive Instructions not to make any, promises or contracts to 6r -with, the aliens. .Under hese in structions, and with this appoint ment Costello went to England, and brought back four or five different parties, aggregating In number about eighty. NOLlSH GIRLS DISSATISFIED. "These operatives "reached Charlotte and vicinity during September, l0. Nearly all of them were skilled tex tile workers, but many of them soon became dissatisfied. The. causes of their dissatisfaction were perhaps numerous. Home ot tnetn were ut- rly trifling ana or no account ana ould not work anywhere. Many ot netn were, undoubtedly spoiled by the kindness and, attention shown them. For In stance, they were met at the dopt In carriages, when I aup pese man of the mhad never ridden in carriages before' in their - Uvea Money was advanced freely to them and clothes and ' furniture also. , , It does not take the average Englishman long to get his head turned. They found the demand ot labor (very pressing, and they reached the con clusion that - they , could do pretty much as they pleased, and began to make unreasonable demands. , They Insisted, for Instance) that they should be allowed to go out of the mill an hour for breakfast , at eight o'clock and leav at five in the afternoon. My theory'on this point If confirmed by 'the fact that the partlnes who went to, Oastonj - got along .- better ' phone girls have many tils, ". , r-r which they take some nasty' PlUsj t hralrtiv .ami hatifrv Ctrl Ton'il ha. YvT wh If a he Lilting VP for. Eoekr Mnnnuin Tea. j,, up ,y... Yt u. Jordan Co? !' ! I" - ' M ; ' "' I ' i ( I i , i i . , t t :...t ; .-. l..u,-. , rmiili) them a little t..k at the very l..!t, In which he told them that thoy should have the same treatment that the native holp had, no more nnd no loss, and he and his euperln tsntftitit Instated on their working and upon, their complying with the rules and regulations ot the mill. All of them that were of any account at all who went to Gaatonla seemed to get along alright" until they were stop ped from ?work , , by Inspector Mc Laughlin." "v .: ; ,Vi . '.' .'.-r; : ,;, THE 6UIT3' INSTITUTED. " "Everybody knows," ' continued Mr, Tlllett, "the. work of Inuspector Mc Lauglln. ? He was sent down V: front Washington and took statements" from these people.' By this time large percentage of them had quit- work, and were desiring to get , back to Engtand. They then . for the first Mme began to tell marvelous stories of the premises Costello ; had. made4 them In England,-vpromlse of work at the most i" exorbitant s prices, 'and of tree clothes of 'American style and fashion,' and also free furniture and the like J Upon the reports made by McLaughlin, thes department instruc ed Attorney Holton to Investigate the facts and he did so and -made his report. Upon these reports from Mc; Laughlln , and- ,th District Attorney, theUnited s feutes ;; Government Insti tued the penaltysuits.; One suit -was orougni tor lit.wow ana 'anoiner, tor 152,900 and later a bin ot. indictment sent? ; . 1 'yfy-X.,. V', i ' MR. TnXETTS TRIP, TO ? WiSH- INOTpN,- " Tif After these penilty suit had been instituted, and' the indictment found by the grand Jury, 1 made a trip to Washington". for. .the; purpose.' of In terviewing 4he-authorities, there, with a ..hope that I could, so present the case that the government would abandon 4 the. suit. I had a very. courteous hearing before Hon, Alford W, Cooly, Assistant Attorney Gen eral, who had charge . of the cases, but I was not successful. I Impress ed it upoa Mr. Cooly that a great in justice had been done in, the" insti tution of these suits, and particular ly in the sending of this bill of In dictment. I, found that no one had investigated the facts connected with the case, and I assured Mr. Cooly that if any one competent representative of the government would Investigate both the- law and the facts he would be compelled to reach the conclusion that the government, had no case. I was not able to1 cause, this Investiga tion to be made, and failed In my pur pose,.''' PREPARING FOR THE TRIAL. "Finding it Impossible to convince the government officials that there was nothing in the case, we begaln to pre pare for the trial. My partner, Mr. Guthrie, and myself had charge of the case up to this time, and then we associated with us Mr. E. T. Can- si er. of this city, and Judge W. P. Bynum, of Greensboro. 1 hope' I can say, without violating the"" rules of propriety, that we left no stone un turned in the preparation of the casea We studied the history of the Immigration legislation and the decis ions of the court, and then began to prepare the evidence. No lawyers ever had clients who gave them more In telligent or efficient assistance In the preparation of the facts or the case. THE POINTS INVOLVED. "Tt wu decided to trv one case as a test case, and the District Attor nov rail Ad li r the case involving a Suit for 121,000. When the case came on trial it was round that mere were practically two questions before the Jury- The first was whether any promises or contracts of any sort had run made with these aliens. Our contention was that - all of their ntnrina u to the nromises and con tracts made by Costello were un true, and that no promises were maae by Costello, and that, if Costello had . n ,1 a au.H rwcum is. and AntrftftjL they were made In direct violation of the instructions of 'our clients, ana that therefore, our clients were not responsible for them. In the second place, we contended tnat these peo ple were imported to do skill labor, and that labor of that kind unem ployed could not be found in this country, and. - therefore, . although Costello had made contracts, still neither he or our clients were guilty of any violation of the law. It was on this last point tnat tne most inter esting features of the case center ed. . . NO MOTION FOR NON-SUIT. "After the trail had be run the mvnrnment offered to Drove the promises and contracts which were claimed that Costello made these peo ple in tingiana. we oojeciea to thu AAnliritlons ' urjon the around that Costello had not been authorised by our clients to make any promises whatever, and that we were not re- nnnalhle for them. It was OO this question that we had a lively debate n,i,K tha attnrnev for the ft-overn- pment, and It was here that Judge Boyd made a ruling, wnicn was very strongly in our- favor. The Judge held that before our clients could be Knund nv CoHtello'a declarations, the government would have to show that we authorized mm to ao sometning Illegal, or that' there was-a conspiracy tn winiat tha law. The attorneys for the government continued after this ruling to put up aaaiuonai evidence, but never fully recovered from this blow. However, the act and decla rations of Costello were let In by the Judge with the understanding that the responsibility of our clients for them would have to be shown. Un der this ruling or the Judge In our favor, a good many friends expressed surprise that we did not move for a non-suit but of course, when we found the evidence all going our way, we preferred to have a verdict of the Jury, which It Is extremely difficult to overturn, rather than haye the case go off on what wonldrappear to a layman to n i leonmcamy, ana thila) Ml n rialr of bavins- the Aonellate Court send the case back, for a new trial. Beside ' this, we desired to have' some Investigation of our right a imMirt fheae neonle as skilled lab orer Upon the ground that labor of that kind unemployed, couia not do 'n,mit in this-eountnr. and that voint would not have been reached at all in the case If we had secured a non suit ......... GOVERNMENTS EVIDENCE. 'In msklng out the ' esse,' the at torneys tor, tha United States, relied almost entirely upon the testimony of the English Immigrant w prove that the offer and promises or laoor he'd been made, and they had mlgrat m thia AAiuitrr In i oursuance of C U ,u , ...aw -m those offers and that their transpor tation wa paid. ' Tne testimony 01 these people plainly showed that they, were all anxious to come And that no offer, solicitations of any sort were accessary to bring them, bat all they nesded -was . the opportunity. It showed that they i made many cohtra- WORKKBT'LTICIS A CHARM." Mr. D. N. Walker, editor of that srtey journal, - ne bnivrvriira, ' a.. ays: "I ran a nail In my foot taut week and at once applied r3ucklen'a At- nlrS) paiva, rue jtinammaiMKi ioijowm: the salve simply nled the ' wound.' lioala aoraa, burns sn skin c euaraftteed air rsgflits. , urns Snd skin slsaaaes; ry : . r:! i, ni' 1 tlii-y ncvT !- it coii'.riiiju l that ;:',! ! Ii.hI ln.'i,'-) tiicui them ..;r until atter ti. y had become dissatisfied. 1 Xhe defendants muy well have rented fhe cune, there fore, upon this quftfition, which lay at the very threshhold, and we are confident that the Jury , would havo found that no offers or promises naq ever been made them. U 'On the second branch o the fjase as to whether textll e?orkers -were sklied operatives, and also upon the more Important Question 'as to wheth er labor of that kind unemployed could be found In this country, tha government was put In? the unfor tunate position, of havlns: to rely sole ly , upon the evidence of three labor leaders, who had been 'imported'- from. New England for the purpose of tes tifying. .There . was a general con census of opinion among the bystand er la the court house that when these labor leaders took the' stand we had discovered , the real source of these prosecutions, although" each- of them dented any complicity ' with s j them. These men testified ' that there were thousands of unemployed skilled cot ton mill operatives in the Notth dur ing the summev arVl fall ot 190, but. under the searching and artful cross examination of Mr. Cansler, they ad mitted that their information rested solely upon declarations made W them by subordinate officers of their organ isations. Mr. Cansler succeeded .. In drawing out ot one of them, Mr. Hlb-1 bard, .that the Ideal labor coalition according to his view was to have two Jobs for every man, jmd the' other1 one, Mr. Golden, admitted that he did not know of but three textile operatives in New England unemployed during the year of 1906, and, indeed, the only thing he knew of these was what they had told hmvv Js.;ijJ? NORTHERN COTTON MUX OPER ATORS MOSTLY FOREIGNERS. "Mr. Cansler also made, these labor leaders admit that they themselves ware foralarnera. and alaiiV the rather' startling fact that 75 per cent of all the cotton mill operatives of the North were foreigners. Hungarians, poles. Slavs, and, In fact nearly all Nation alities. Coupling all of these facts to gether, the government at this point was resting under what was more than a supposition that this fight was not 'only Incited by the labor agitators of the North, but that It,, was being waged on behalf of people - who were likewise foreigners and we had before us the rather singular spectacle of men iwfco were themselves foreign im migrants, testifying lrr behalf of the Interests of other foreign Immigrants against the right of our manufacturers here to Import foreign labor into this country. DEFENDANTS' WITNESSES. "When I come to speak of the de fendant's evidence and witnesses to be placed upon the stand, I can hardly contain myself within the proper bounds. I have been practicing law for twenty-five years, but I can truth fully say that no case in which' I have been engaged have ever been able to put up before the court such a mass of evidence, nor have I ever been able to put upon the witness stand such -a large number of witnesses ot such high standing, character and in telligence. "In the first place, we led off with Mr. S. B. Sargent, one of the defend ants. Mr. Sargent, besides being a thoroughly practical and wonderfully successful business man, has a most marvellous faculty for expressing him self clearly, and particularly so for a raan wi had no collegiate training. A 'lawyer In the court house,"- who heard him testify and knew that he was from New Engand, stated to me that he supposed that, of course. Mr. Sargent was a graduate of Harvard University. The truth is that after Mr. Sargent came down from the wit ness stand we had the case won from every standpoint. It would be vain for me to attempt to mention even our principal witnesses. There was Mr. AQdrew E. Moore, general manager ot the Loray Mills, who was formerly a successful lawyer from South Caro lina. 'He was at our elbow at all times, making most valuable sugges tions, and as a witness was unsurpass ed. Mr. J. H. Mayes, of this city, also aitnlgulshed himself in the giving ot hts clear and convincing testimony. Messrs. Lewis W. Parker and Thomas Parker, of South Carolina, were both star (witnesses, giving to the court a run exposition of what the South Car olina manufacturers had done to sup ply the deficit of labor, and showing I that every resource which the Ingenu ity or the most Itilelligwnt manufac turer could devise had been exhausted 1 In the effort to remedy the evil. Ma jor Lucas, of Wilmington, a graduate j of West Point showed a most thorough and Intimate knowledge ot the labor conditions of the country, as a result of the most Intelligent and ex haustive research, and he showed from statistics compiled by himself the fear- rul shortage of laborers of all kinds 1 not only In the South, but throughout me country. "Besides this, we put on the stand 40 or 50 of the leading cotton mill men and superintendents of the South. They were as fine a looking body of men as was ever seen In court, and testified with one voice as to the short age ot help and the desperate efforts i tnat were made to remedy th evil. THE LINE OF BATTLE. "It was most Intrestfng to watch the progress of the trial, and the gradual wavering of the government's line of battle. When our first witnesses were put upon the stand to prove the snort sge of labor In this State, the gov ernment's attorneys cross-examined tnem very rigidly for the curnose of showing that we had not exhausted all reasonable efforts to secure operatives In this State, - As witness after witness cam upon the. stand, however, the government gradually retired from North Carolina and retreated through South Carolina down towards Georgia. Again our witnesses testified the same condition la these southern , States, and so the government was forced on down , through Mississippi, - Louisiana and Texas. The next contested States wer Tennessee and , Kentucky, but when Mr. Thomas Parker testified that In one small town In Tennessee' there, wer eight labor agents from different? States, in one day seeking help, the government forces disappeared In that direction beyond the Mississippi. The tide of battle then turned toward the North and soon crossed the Mason and Dixon line. ' The government made a bold stand la Philadelphia and In the cotton mill section of the New En gland States, but unfortunately its only support In these positions were the three labor leaders referred to hove, and when we put upon the stand Mr. Coffin, of th Whiting Ma chine. Works, and Mr. Meeks, of the Whttlngsville Spinning River Com pany, and Other witnesses of . like character, who, during last year had been through practically all, of th To stop Cold with TrerefiUea"-Is safer thaa to let tt run and etir It af terwards. Taken at the ."snaese stage" Srrventlf t head off ' all solas and rlppr end perhaps save you from pneumonia or Bronchitis. Preventlcs are little toothsome candy cold eur tablets selling In t-cent an 2S-cent bo. If you are eklllv. If you becln to ar.eeaa. try Prevention. They will sorely check th enld, sn4 ptees you. gol by bur- weu-fe Kecau siu-rev - ...iiis la i-;.:; an j the, r:aw t'n- i, land Ltittes, and who testified to sonlng with their, own eyes hundrcda of loomn and thousands of spindles idle solely because labor could not be found to operate them, the government again retreated toward Canada. LABOR CONDITIONS IN TUB ., SOUTH. ' . "As a last stand In the case, the government undertook, by a cross-examination of our witnesses, to show that the labor conditions in the South were preventing us from getting the needed help.' The labor leader re ferred to above teatlfld that If we had shorter hours, vis., 60 hours per week, that the Northern ' operatives would come to us In great numbers, To con trovert this,' we proved by Mr.' B. R Robertson, of the Holt-Granite Manu facturing Company, of Haw , River, that he worked his employes only 60 hours a week and he had. the same shortage. We also showed . by VMr. Robertson, superintendent of a large mill in , Danville, " Va. that his " mill was ' runnjng on ; the slxty-hour-per-week schedule, and that he had ad vertised for help for, two year' la a new England textile Journal, setting forth' the fact that -he had worked only sixty hours per week and show ing many other advantages, and as a net result of his advertisement he got only one., amily from New England. We had other testimony relating to the same line,, and the government was ferced to abandon that position.. H .y ' . "Th next point of investigation was as to whether thef allure to get oper atives was due to the condition of the mill houses and the conveniences and comforts furnished the operatives. From this point the Messrs. Parker, of South Carolina, testified that at the Monaghan Mills, at Greenville, hU company had every attraction that could be thought bt within the bounds of reason. The operatives were fur nished thoroughly comfortable houses, each on having . a bath room and equipped with, electric lights. There was a Voung Men's Christian Associa tion, with gymnasium, games, library and lyceum. There was also a Toung Women's Christian Association, where the girls were taught to cook and sew and their morals safeguarded at every point la addition to this, the com pany encouraged the operatives in hav ing flower and vegetable gardens by offering prises to those who had the best of these. - Mr.. Cooley seized upon this quickly and asked: " "Well, Mr. Parker, how was your supply of operatives at the Mon aghan?' "To this Mr. Parker replied: 'I can not explain why it la, but as a matter of fact our deficiency in help at that mill was as great lf.not greater, than any other.' That , was a blow which demolished the government's other po sition. . , - "Finally the question of comparing wages was made the subject of Inves tigation. The labor leaders testified to the scale of wages at the North. Mr. Lewis Parker showed that he had gons to New England and made personal lnvestlgailon of the question of wages, and he fourid that prior to the 10 per cent, advance, which was made by the cotton mill manufacturers of New En gland in November, 1908, the scale of wages at the North were practically the same as at the South, and he even demonstrated that after the 10 per cent, advance at the North, the Southern operatives still had the ad vantage, arising out of the fact that the -expense of living was less at the South, and further fact that the man ufacturers. of the. Ndrth required their operative to secure their own home at the ordinary rate of" rental In the neighborhood, .iwhereas the Southern manufacturers furnish .their operatives with houses at rate -which did not pay the taxes and insurance charg ing, for instance, at the Monaghan Mills only $2 per mo nthfor houses ot four rooms furnished with bath and electric lights. "In addition to this. It Was shown that the Northern mill operatives would not come South because they could not find such attractions as ex isted at the North. Mr. J A. Smith testified that he went into a New En gland mill village and tried to hire some weavers. They asked him whether they would find plenty of beer gardens and Sunday amusement place When he told them that In stead of these they would have their eholoe of going to Sunday School on Sunday, or perhaps picking blackber ries in season, they all with one accord stated they did not care to come Into any such country." MR. COOLY'S ADMIRABLE CON DUCT. "With testimony of this 'ind the government's attorneys saw it was a roregone conclusion that the verdict of the Jury would be adverse to them at every contestable point. There was sun, nowever, ground noon which they might have made a fight before tne jury, wnicn would nave prolonged the agony for several days. In addi tion to this, they might hsv lessened tne rorce or the rail to themselves as attorneys by an appeal to the higher courts upon tne rulings of the ludse. and thus the contest might have been prolonged for several months, and even for years. At this Junction we, as attorneys for the defendants, made an appeal to Mr. cooly. as a repre sentative of the government, to give up tne ngni. tie iranxiy admitted that he was defeated, but for a while he thought It was best to, allow the Jury to pass upon the case. However, after considering the matter more maturely, and after discussing the question with his associates, and also with Judge Boyd, he decided to aban don the fight. 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