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TAFF VALE CASE

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to get out of their way. I did not want much persuasion, I can assure you. And did he get you. some brandy because he could see you had been injured?—I don't remember. Now, do you really say you don't remember that?—I know I wanted some water or some- thing to drink. The Judge: Perhaps it was a couple of whiskies. Witness: That may be so, my lord. (Laughter.) Mr. Thomas: So you got something stronger than water? Witness: Yes. (Laughter.) Thomas Williams, the driver of the Cow- bridge train, who had to make An Adventurous Journey. to Cardiff to take charge of the train at Cardiff on the second or the third day of the strike, then related his experience with pickets. Witness said he was known as "Bobbin." On the morning of the strike he was met on his way to work by William Morgan, driver; Rees Griffiths, driver; George Gould, guard; and others. They asked him if lie was going to work, and he said he waa. Morgan remarked. "Now, don't be a fool to go to work. You have the same chance as ourselves." Witness replied, Well, William, you know your mind and I know mine. If you put a rope around your neck there is no reason why I should do the same." Witness then related his trip to Cardiff by road. As he could not get to Cardiff by train he hired a trap, and the stationma&fcer of Cowbridge (Mr. Glastonbury) drove with him. On the way they passed a public-house, outside of which there were a number of bicycles. He was told afterwards that the bicycles belonged to strikers, whose intention it was to stop him. As the trap passed the public-house he heard men shout out "Robbin." Witness told the driver of the trap to drive on and take no notice of them, and he reached Cardiff in Safety, and spent the whole of his time in the Cathays sheds. The witness was closely cross-examined by Mr. S. T. Evans as to the incidents of the trip and upon the statements made by witness in affidavits at the time the injunction waa obtained against the society. Counsel said he would argue later on that witness was unreliable. Thomas Parry, locomotive foreman at the Coke Ovens Sheds at Pontypridd, said on the first day of the strike he acted as fireman on an engine that left Abercynon for Penarth. At Cardiff pickets spoke to them and tried to persuade the driver to lea-ve the engine. On another occasion, at Pontypridd, the pickets tried to take John Thomas, driver, away from the train. The company's pre- mises were picketed throughout the strike. By Mr. Evans: At one time he was a mem- ber of the executive committee of the Amal- gamated Society of Railway Servants. Albert George Skilly, another engine driver in the employ of the Taff Vale Railway at the Coke Ovens, informed the court that when walking along Tymawr Bridge on the first day of the strike he was met by John Airdrey and William Rees. They asked him to go back, and he refused to do so. On getting to the end of the bridge he was approached by a big crowd of men. One of them, a signalman, said to him: If you bring your engine out we will throw it off the road." He got to the engine sheds, and some time later several gentlemen, including Adams, Coleman. and Shannon, entered the sheds and pulled him out. He resisted their efforts to take him away. The court then rose for luncheon. Our reporter wires:—Sir Edward Clarke, K.C., who is the leading counsel for the rail- way company, has been taken seriously ill, and will not be seen again in the case for some time. Sir Edward has. been overworked, having had to take a leading part in both the Taff Vale Railway v. the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants and the Hartopp divorce cases, and has completely broken down in consequence. On resuming, the witness Skillin was cross- examined by Mr. S. T. Evans, K.C.. to show that the crowd that met him on the way to work consisted of several colliers. George Brown, coal inspector, and ex-passen- ger driver, Merthyr, said he was in charge of a passenger train to Merthyr on .Sunday night, August 19. He was told at Pontypridd by Palmer Richards, guard, and William Thomas, fireman, that there were no wheels to turn on the Monday. Witness replied that ha would see that a few wheels were turned. He took a train from Merthyr to Penarth on the Tuesday following, accompanied by a num- ber of police. At Penarth Dock Station he found the vacuum would not act, as it had been disconnected between the engine and the guard's van. It was afterwards put right, and the train proceeded. The POLICE PREVENTED THE PICKETS from boarding the engine. Thomas Adams, signalman, St. Mellon's, was met by pickets when on the way to work. They took him to the Colbourne Hotel, where he was told he must not go to work. Later in the same week he (Adams) was stopped again, and had to make a second visit to the Colbourne Hotel in a cab. Although not a member of the society he was paid strike pay. Crose-examined: He did not go to work because he was afraid of being knocked about. He did not agree to join in the strike if paid strike pay. Mr. James Taylor paid him the money. He took no part in the agitation.