Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-29
OLD BITTERNESS
AGAIN CROPS OUT
IN HATTERS' CASE
appointment of Arbitrator to
Succeed Colonel Austen Col
gate Is Postponed.

Traces of the bitterness that existed
between the hat manufacturers and
the union hatters of the county, FIVE
years ago, and which, it had been
generally supposed, had been eradi-
Gated since that time, were strongly
IN evidence at hearing before
Judges Martin and Osborne, of the
Court of Common Pleas, yesterday,
when the matter of appointing a sue
cessor to Colonel Austen Colgate as
an arbitrator between the employees
and the employers was brought up.
The great strike that paralyzed the
hating industry and impoverished the
workers in 1909 wss recalled and re-
examinations seemed about to fly back
and forth between the parties when
the judges interfered and forestalled
any controversy. With the enmity of
the manufacturers and the hatters
cropping out the judges were placed
in a peculiar position in the matter of
making the appointment, one side
urging it and the other strongly OBJ
5ecting.
Former Judge Thomas A. Davis, OF
Orange, one of the formers of the ar
bitration plan, presented a petition
two weeks ago calling the attention of
the judges to the fact that Mr.. Col
gates appointment as the third MEM
Der of the arbitration board would
expire on October IS, and that, under
the agreement that settled the strike,
the Judges should appoint his sue
cessor. 1t was suggested that Colonel
Colgate was satisfactory to both par
ties and should be reappointed
The other members of the board of
arbitratio are Robert N. Drew, for
the employers, and Martin Lawlor,
for the workers.
Judge Martin in opening the hear
ing yesterday said that he and Judge
Osborne had practically signed an
order appointing the successor to Mr..
CoAgate when a protest was received
from the unions, and 1t was decided
to hear their objections, so both sides
we're notified to be in court yester-
day.
For the workers the following ap-
peared: Michael f. Greene, secretary,
and Thomas .Cunneen, president of
Orange Local No. II; Michael +. Con-
dron, secretary, and William Lamb,
president of Orange Local No. A.;
Miss Mary Mulrainey and Mrs. Mary
Hamilton, for the trimmers; John w.
Scully, national president of the
United Hatters of North America;
Martin Lawlor, secretary of the ma
tional organization, and Christopher
DOMINICAN, president of Newark Local
No. IA.
For the manufacturers there were
present E. V. Connect. jr., of E. ".
Connect & Co.; Robert N. Drew. of
Austin Drew & Co; Henry Berg, of
f. Berg & Co.; John Crowell, of c. b.
Rutan & Co.; John J. Booth, of No
Name Hat Manufacturing Company,
and John Gist, of II. p. Gist & Co.,
all of Orange or Orange Valley. AL
bert p. Wall, of South Orange, APP
peared as the legal representative of
the Connect firm and did most of the
arguing for the manufacturers.
All of the union representatives
said the hatters' understanding of
the arbitration agreement was that
it was for five years only and that
it was now out of existence, and they
strenuously objected to any appoint
ment being made by the court. Mr..
Wall contended that the agreement
was a perpetual one, one arbitrator
to be appointed every five years by
the court
The judges explained at the outset
of the hearing that they We're acting
as private individuals and not as
officials in making the appointment
of an arbitrator. After argument,
II was not for him to decide whether
or not the agreement was in exist
ence, but TO appoint the arbitrator
and then allow the manufacturers
and the hatters to thresh out the
other matter in q court of competent
Jurisdiction. Judge Martin agreed
with him, and this, of course, was
satisfactory to the manufacturers, as
they are striving to continue the
agreement, but Il was not satisfac-
tory to the uninr representatives, and
they were again heard from.
The moral effect of such action by
the Judges would be prejudicial to
the unions, the union men said, and
would put them lin bad with the
public, when they refused to recog-
nize the arbitrator. Judge Osborne
then suggested that the appointment
be put over few weeks, and in the
meantime the hatters get out an in
junction against himself and Judge
Martin to restrain them from maxi
ing the appointment. This would
bring the matter into chancery, the
proper legal tribunal to settle the
question Of the life of the agree
ment.
Objection to this procedure also