Conference Is Suggested.
"His whole talk was what I would
term an appeal to reason," Fisch-
naller said. "After he had finished
and union men asked that they tell
their side of the story, Field suggested that it would better be re-
Omak Hotel Man Tells of served for a conference the follow-
day in the company's offices."
Union Leader Who Talked Asked by Babe ,f he considered
Away Arbitration. Fields' talk a "sob story," Fisch-
nailer said, "I think it took courage
of a high order to tell a 'sob story'
like that in the face of heckling
The testimony of Mayor John such as he underwent. The inter-
Mackey of Omak that he has taken ruptions were by about a half doz-
an absolutely impartial stand in the,en of the union men, over the nm.
Biles-Coleman lumber strike from
the beginning was given today,
shortly before Interrogator John
Babe of the labor board rested his sequent meeting with the^strike
case in committee, at which Father Ray-
Uhat he had one more w tnesftomond Reidner of the Si Agnes'
Maekey identified telegrams he
sent the governor and Chief Wil-
l liam Cole of the state patrol, ask-
!ing more state police aid at Omak.
I He said it was requested as much and
for the protection of the strikers as ltV- l. fought he might have a
for the company good jn£luence on RalPh stout-
"I was erned with the wel strike committee,
fare of the public generally,
Mackev said ferences with long speeches on the
origin and history of labor organi-
Peace Gesture Recounted.
Harry Fischnaller, Omak hotel! Fischnaller, in his testimony
man, was the first witness called | placed the blame for failure tc
for the defense. He gave his ver- bring about an arbitration entirelj
sion of the meeting of the union; on Stout, who, he declared, talkec
and business men, which he called' other members of the committee
shortly after the beginning of the: out of several arbitration plans sug-
strike, to be addressed by Robert; gested by Father Reidner or him*
Field, Leavenworth banker and a'l self.
director of the Biles-Coleman com- He denied, however, a statement
pany. made by Stout in earlier testimony,,
The meeting was the main item that he suggested Stout "take a
of C. A. Staple ton's testimony in trip to California" with his expenses
the government's case several days Paid.
ago. Asked if he considered C. A. Sta-
Fischnaller said Field agreed to pleton, former Omak mayor and a
address the group at his request former state game commissioner, a
and came in after dinner and fair-minded man, Fischnaller coun-
talked for about an hour, laying tered with the statement that he
bare the intimate details of his 'own did not know Stapleton well,
and the company's financial stand- He said bis own interest in trying, in support of his contention ing to settle the strike was that he
