Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-11
Suit for Restraint
 of Silver Strikers
TAKING OF TESTIMONY WAS
 FINISHED YESTERDAY
ARGUE CASE TODAY
Counsel for Respondents Sought to Show That None of the Labor Org anizations Named Had contsmpIat- ed Any Overt Act.

New Haven. Conn, Jan. 1o.-Taking of testimony in the proceedings company to enJoin its former em- ployes, now on strike, from Interfering with the conduct of its business, was finished before Judge James H. Webb Arguments will be made tomorrow morning.
 By the testimony of more than thirty witnesses, c. ,. Danaher, counsel for the strikers had conducted themselves in an orderly and lawful manner and that none of the labor organizations named in the petition had committed the company.
 Connecticut Federation Eliminated. The Connecticut Federation of La bor. named as co-defendant, was eliminated after it's president, Julius Strumlau, of Meriden, had testified that the organization had had no di- rect or indirect connection with the | union was not connected with the fed | eration.
 Witnesses Had Done Picket Duty. Most of the witnesses called had done picket duty either in WaIling- | ford or Meriden, and the substance of their testimony was that they had been I specifically and frequently instructed | to conduct themselves in a peaceful manner. In one instance, it was teeti- | fed that a striker had laid his hand on the shoulder of a strikebreaker, but | that the man, Adam Borek, had been f arrested almost immediately after wards and that the union had repudi-. ] ated his act and that the men had thereafter been advised that 1t was a good thing to keep their hands in | Hrif orously denied that they had pointed to various employees or other persons | when they were going into the factory, or that they had used offensive or abusive language to employees. Ed- | ward H. Budrow, treasurer, and James
 B. Hil. president of the silver work CTS union in Meriden. who. it was tes-
 tified last week. had gone to the Cos
 sette home in Meriden and made in-
 sulting remarks about one of the
 daughters who had returned to work.
 denied on the stand that they had
 used any offensive language or had
 the home. They agreed that the re-
 mark was made that "it was too bad'
 that the girl should return to work | Manager on the Stand.
 George Munson, general manager of
 Factory H in Meriden and Factory R
 in Wallingford, and a director of the
 International Silver company, was
 called to the stand by MT. Danaher
 and asked if it was not so that the
 directors of the company had taken
 steps to blacklist" their former em- i ployes. Mr. Munson denied this and
 also denied that he had received any
 communication from George Rockwell of Waterbury concerning a Michael Il O'Leary of Meriden, a striker. who had been seeking work in Waterbury. Fur ther questions by MT. Danaher brought ! testimony from the witnesses 70 the
 effect that the International Silver
 company was a member of the Con-
 necticut Manufacturers association ard of the National Manufacturers l association Objections to this line of 1 questioning by Ralph O. Weles, coun-
 sel for the petitioners. brought state
 ment from MT. Danaher to .he effect that he wanted 10 show that the In-
 ternational Silver company had. through its membership tn the two
 organizations. sought So discredtt
 strikers who had sought work else where in this state. In Massachusetts, in New York and "in cities even as
 far west as Chicago" Later. after he had put on the stand Fred Sch,ette,
 striker, to testify that he had gotten
 work at a factory in Waterbury, only
 to be discharged three hours later, Mir. : Danaher said he would withdraw that line of questioning, as he was not sure he could prove the connection he sought.
 Testimony as to Piekets. -l | tuner witnesses 1nS4uQ0Q CIduh i Remington, in charge of the picketins ? at Factory H in Meriden,, who tesd- 7 fled that on Monday last only about Il pickets were in the vicinity of the
 shop to offset the testimony of w. R Coe given last week, to the effect that l | between 75 and 100 pickets were on duty there; and Henry Saunders o4 F | Wallingford, who was employed in the 1. Meriden factory, who denied telling the
 story attributed to him last week by William Baker, a private detectiv& Baker had testified that Saunders 3 among other things, had told him thai : the strikers in dealing with strike breakers did not use their fists, but e f Jimmy" and that the police and
 merchants were with the strikers.
 Saunders said he was standing in D his yard when he saw Baker and that [ the latter, who had a companion with ? him, made some remark about a man 9 being desperate when he was in need, D that he (Saunders) had taken him and . his companion to the union hall, had | supplied them with tobacco, which i they asked for. had given them money l to get something to eat and had eS- !, corted them to the point at which the trolley cars leave for New Haven- He saw them on the car.
 Mrs Clara La Crotx, preliminarz
 president, Mrs. Esther M. Fitzgerald | preliminary treasurer of the Girls Fed{ ,. eral union, and Mrs. Ann Johnson, a a member of the union, testified as to the n peaceable manner in which the striks CTS had been conducting their affaira