Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1938 — Page 10

Astute La Follette Questions 310 10 Civil Liberties Witnesses at OnceN

Endures Capital Heat » Operate Fast-Clicking ‘Fact Mill.

By HERBERT a WASHINGTON Aug. 4.—One of - the highest tributes to - Senator Robert M. La Follette’s investigating ability has come from a reluctant Republic Stee! Corp. policeman during the Senate Civil Liberties Committee’s current hearing: “I know Senator, that all you want is the facts, and that’s what I'm trying to give you.” The young Wisconsin Progressive

is setting several kinds of records

by staying here for the hearings through four weeks of Washington's hottest ‘weather. He is running the show alone, as . the other committee member, Senator Thomas (D. Utah) is occupied with a primary campaign. Senator La Follette sits from 10 a. m. until nearly 6 every day, including Saturday—quite uncommon hours for Senate committee hearings. °

He isn’t a lawyer, but he shows.

acute penetration into legal questions, - laws of evidence, in tilts with the attorneys brought along by some witnesses. Senator Rarely Jokes And while he rarely jokes or pokes fun at witnesses, he sometimes makes a sharp retort to the lawyers’. objections. He cuts off hearsay evidence and insists .that witnesses “tell what you know.”

He and his committee staff “pre-|

pare their lesson” in advance on every witness, ipcluding questions to be asked, exhibits to be produced - .—with the advance material on each witness neatly docketed in a file envelope. About 200 witnesses have gone through this factmill in less than three weeks. The committee retained an expert accountant to go over the books of Republic Steel Corp.-and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and ascertain that they spent nearly $4,000,000 in the “Little Steel” strike now under investigation, The committee’s figures and exhibits are rarely questioned. : The Senator is stern, businesslike, and insists upon order among the rather - partisan | audiences, which include a large proportion of bitterly partisan pro-C. I. O. and anti-C. I. O. witnesses. The room, in the air-cooled Senate Office Building, has been filled to overflowing practically every day —and throughout the day’s session. At lunchtime—usually' an hour— the Senator eats with Mrs. La Follette at a nearby cafeteria. Mrs. La Follette, his -. former secretary, and George Middleton, playwright and brother-in-law of the Senator, are two of the most constant . spectators. Questions*3 fo 10 at Once

The Senator also has| developed a new technique of questioning from three to 10 witnesses at once, calling various participants to the stand and then passing the questions from - one to an other. Some highly dramatic moments result. A union man tells of a brutal beating administered by a man sitting at his elbow—and two to four capitol police are handy to see that, in the words of the Senator, “these events are described, not re-enacted.” Senator La Follette will elicit one man’s testimony, and then turn to the man he has accused, with “have you any comment on that?” Usually there is comment, often a ilat denial. The accused man says he was home in bed, or in another town. Then the Senator gives the accusers a chance to comment. Only quick wits, plus thorough preparation, could carry out this

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—Two completely divergent versions of steel: strike violence in 1937 confronted the Senate Civil Liberties Committee

today.

Chairman La Follette accepted without comment “both: the ‘police and strikers’ versions of the Market Street outbreak. in Youngstown,

- Ohio, although he angrily ordered the record purged of a strike leader’s

charges -that Sheriff Ralph Elser was a “sanctimonious liar.”

Sheriff Elzer and his men’ gassed a group of pickets and sympathizers on the night of June 9, he said, because they were shot .at.: Half a dozen of the strikers denied they did any shooting. The Sheriff and City policemen who were injured in one fracas that night said the pickets were armed with long clubs and baseball bats. Strike leaders, including Robert Burke, who applied the uncomplimentary epithet to the Sheriff, said no clubs ‘were carried.

Truck Stories Vary |

The strikers testified that City police escorfed a truck, supposedly loaded with food; into: Republic

Steel’s plant Past the Suter Lu a nearly ran down

terrific speed, several pickets. City Police Capt. Charles Richmond testified that the truck was, not ‘going more than 20 miles an hour’, Sherif ‘Elser said he ordered the pickets to disperse before his men began firing the gas shells. The pickets testified that he never said a word before his men started shooting, and added that shells were also fired from the Republic plant. City Policeman Roy Welch testi-

procedure, which is- comparable to driving a six-horse stage-coach team on a mountain road. But the Senator hasn’t tangled the reins yet. He is providing Washington's best show of the summer.

fied that City Detective Michael Flynn, who was there to-investigate: a shooting, was struck in the back of the head by a striker with a ball bat. - But striker Edward 'Veliskey, who said he was within three feet of Detective Flynn at the time, said he saw no club. A Picket Capt. John Delong testis’ fied that one deputy: sheriff held:

back the crowd, following the gas=|

sing, with a “tommy gun.” - Capt.

Richmond denied that the ‘police

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cursed them in the vilest language. “The pickets denied’ this, and’ : they repeéatedely were urged by! ‘their leaders not bs resist any, Polies

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