Morning journal and courier., 1886-07-16

MT. Platt-Was this interview as sort of preliminary to arbitratlons Wltness-Ina1 was the idea went with. -
 MT. :Plstt-Was any money paid to the arbitrators by the News companyf Witness There was not.
 MT. Platt-Was there written agreement! Witness-There was.
 MT. Platt-Who signed this agreements
 MT. Ailing-I want to see IL, II It IS soins to be submitted.
 It was shown him and the court then ao- iourned until 2 o'clock.
 Afternoon Session.
 At 9 o'clock the case began again with Mr. Fowler on the stand.
 MT. Platt-Was aD arbitration had on that | aereementl Witness-There was. Mir. Platt-Do you know who were the | arbitratorsl
 MT. Alling-I object. The judge excluded the ~@stion. M, platt was an award made by the arbi- tratorsl Witness-There was one made. MT. Platt-Was the talk between the Morning News and the Typographical union | thus endedl Witness-It was. Mir. Platt-What did you say at that meeting? Witness-I said that no settle | ment could be made by demanding money Mr. Lane, think, said there must be pay ment; Kidd. Glidden and Mailhouse said they | didn't care about money. They held con 1 sultation, and returning they thought the | demand for money must remain 1n
 MT. Platt-Are you acquainted with how the News office started2
 l MT AIling-I object. Ruled out. Mr. Platt-Did you have previous con l versation with Glidden in which anything
 was said about payment of moneys Judge
 Stoddard excluded the question. l Mir Platt-In that meeting in the othce 1 didn't MT. Glidden say he didn't believe i'll | taking money having payment2 Wit
 ness-I understood the demand for money l would at any time be waived if the other 1 matter of letting the men into the ohce was l agreed on.
 1 Mr. Platt-Was anything said by any member of that committee that money was | claimed for breach of contract? Ans.-That claim was made.
 MT. Platt-Was money demanded on that
 claim? Ans.-I can't say.
 MT. Alling-Was any notice given to you
 that the News was going to be boycotteds | Ans.-No official notice.
 MT. Alling-Was the award and contract
 of arbitration published in the papers Ans. Yes, sir.
 | MT. Alling-Did the demand for money . 2asa- by the arbitrator Ana,-I don't re- 8 Mr Platt~1 osj5lrl,Ila lay in the award r. Judge Stoddard-I e3o-,, MT. Arlington say the coin.s- oins-ttsd aWaro. g drew and came back and stated the 1ssnn- w,tn- a must be paid! Witness-They did. r MT. Platt-Do you remember when the + award was drawn? Witness-1 think about I | six days previous to it's being made public.
 MT. Blydenburgh-Was this paper, the @ Workingmen's Advocate, the paper referred , l to by the committee having been started s l against the News boycott2 Witness-I be- - lieve it was.
 Il Paul Jente of Paul Jente 6 Bros, Broad r. way grocers, was the next witness, and has 2 advertised in the COURIER. He testified that
 Mr. Glidden visited him about six weeks ago tt in regard to taking his advertisement out of IS the paper but he did not pay much attention
 to what he said. MT. Jente was not cross, d l examined
 is Warner D. Judson, of Judson Brothers F, State street grocers, testified that during the
 spring Mir. Glidden came into his store and B. said he was the walking delegate of society F. nun bering about 3 900, and wanted to know .s Ii the witness would take out his advertise B ment from the COURIER when the contract d expired. The witness told him he would not
 take it out for any one until the contract ex s pired. MT. Gldden's reason for making the t request was his society boycotting the
 | paper. Glidden said the boycotters would 6 have control of the COURIER in two weeks. d H. A. Crawford of the Troy laundry testi- : fed in regard to a similar call from Delegate i Glidden. MT. Crawford replied that he didn't care to talk about it, as he should con- ? tinue to advertise in the COURIER. Witness i thought that Mr. Glidden said that he didn't 6 l ask any man to break 8 contract. 1 said to
 him hadn't time to talk with him, and that ? l might or might not stop when my contract 2 expired. Ills said he had to report at certain
 times and wanted to know Low to report me. P I said he could report me as he pleased, and he said he would report me doubtful. The
 next 1 saw was my name on one of these
 cards some three weeks afterwards, which
 was given by one of my girls to me. The card was offered as evidence by MT. filling,
 and the judge excluded it.
 MT. J. H. G. Durant, the Church street jeweler, testifed-I have been in busin ess six years in this city and have always adver-
 tised in the COURIER. On June MT. Glid-
 den came in the store and asked me when . | nay contract expired. I asked him who he represented, he said Typographical union and
 Knights of Labor. I said heard he was not 1 representative of the Knights of Labor, but he said he was. I told him was authorita- | lively informed that the Knights of Labor were not in the boycott of the COURIER. A customer came in then and Glidden went
 away.
 F. w. Guion, bookkeeper for the Morning , News, testified next.
 MT. Alling-Do you remember when this letter was left on the desk in the office, when MT. Fowler was out. Witness recognize itH w,vne-.--1ao M s ~ MT. Alling-Who handed It tvyana Witness-Mr. Glidden.
 Judge Stoddard then admitted the letter, which was from Trades Council No. 47
 and stated that $50 week after that would
 be charged them as long ss the boycott went on.
 MT. Platt-Are you quite sure Glidden | left that letter theres Witness-I am under
 the impression that it was him. I did not I r- - -