Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-14
|''WHY Not STRIKE"
Suggested the United Shoe
To Stop Competition,
Offered to Pay Expenses Of En-
ployes During The Progress.
Practically III Governments Testi.
mony Is in..Sabpoeaaes Issued.

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taa q 1aa-ss sa-ses ! week for aboat
szgse azss1gas &ma gave him what infoT-
III 1sasa sss esasa8i and sssuvei IN opera
teT - zEs fe.e machine who went down
IL lvnz and explained the difference
between 1Ae United machine No. :,
zrzs Mr. Plants toe machine to n Mr..
Richardson. wfso represented the
UrSss7i CO Charles G. Ross of Lynn,
another sire worker. formerly in the
employ OF Plant. corroborated Morri
son and explained that $500 had been
spent trying TO organize the Plant shop
and thFt Mr.. Wilson refused TO reim-
barse the organizers.
james A. Fowler. assistant to the
United States attorney general. then
announced that with the exception OF
some testimony relating to the pat
ents held by the United Co., practical
" all the verbal testimony the govern
ment desired to introduce was in.
He requested. however, the issuance
of subpoenas to secure the records of
the minutes of the Goodyear Shoe Ma
chinery Co, Mckay Shoe Machinery
Co, Consolidated and Mckay Lasting
Machine Co. Eppler Welt Machine Co.
and the Davey Pegging Machine Co.
These FIVE companies originally enter
ed into the formation Of the United Co.
The court arranged to hear argu
ments on the issuance of the sub
poenas late, today. The case was then
put over until June %. when the gov
eminent is expected to close. 1t is I'M
dtrstood that the defence will ask Il
delay until fall for presenting its side.
In speaking of the progress of the
case, Judge Putnam stated that it ha 4
proceeded more rapidly than any o.
the big trust cases of which he hal
heard. Despite the technical nature of
the evidence, both sides, he said, show
&c excellent preparation in present
ing it,