"Punched you where?" inquired Vanderveer in order to locate the injury.
"They punched me on the sidewalk!" answered the witness, and the solemn bailiff had to rap for order in the court room.
Cooley caught a Tartar in his cross-examination of Mrs. Crosby. He inquired:
"Did you hear the I. W. W.'s say that when they got a majority of the workers into this big union they would take possession of the industries and run them themselves?"
"You did hear them say they would take possession?"
"Why certainly!" flashed back the witness. "That's the way the North did with the slaves, isn't it? They took possession without ever asking them. My people came from the South and they had slaves taken away from them and never got anything for it, and quite right, too!"
"Then you do believe it would be all right, yourself?" said Cooley.
"I believe that confiscation would be perfectly right in the case of taking things that are publicly used for the public good of the people----."
"That they should be used then by the people and for the people!" finished the witness.
"That's all!" cried Cooley loudly and more anxiously.
Frank Henig, the next witness, told of having been blackjacked by Sheriff McRae and exhibited the large scar on his forehead that plainly showed where the brutal blow had landed. He stated that he had tried to secure the arrest of McRae for the entirely unwarranted attack but was denied a warrant.
Jake Michel, secretary of the Everett Building Trades Council, gave evidence regarding a number of the I. W. W. street meetings. He was questioned at length about what he had inferred from the speeches of Rowan, Thompson and others. Replying to one question he said:
"I think the American Federation of Labor uses the most direct action that any organization could use."
"And by that you mean a peaceful strike?" said Cooley suggestively.
"Well, I haven't seen them carry on very many peaceful ones yet," replied Michel.
Cooley asked Michel whether Rowan had said that "the workers should form one great industrial union and declare the final and universal strike; that is, that they should remain within the industrial institutions and lock the employers out for good as owners?"
"I never heard him mention anything about locking anyone out; I think he wanted to lock them in and make them do some of the work!" answered Michel.