New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-25

HELDN 100000
Three Deputies Guard
Patrick F. Duffy in
Bridgeport Hotel.
lBy telegraph 10 The Tribune. ]


Bridgeport, Conn, Aug. Fitzpatrick
F. Duffy, an organizer of the American
Federation of Labor, is he ID at the At
lantic Hotel in lieu of 100000 bonds
following the service of body writ
Tuesday evening by Deputy Sheriff
Thomas Cunningham. Duffy is guard.
ed by three extra deputies, one OF
whom stays in the same room with him
overnight.
Two officers of the national organ
ization were with Duffy when the sher-
iff approached him. The sheriff had
warrants for the other two as well.
The bonds in their cases would have
been 100000 each, thus at one swoop
increasing the liabilities of the asso-
citation by 100000. Duffy was quick
to grasp the situation and his two
companions vanished before the war
rants could be served.
The announced decision Of Duffy t.
sue the four manufacturing moulders
who made complaint against him, and
Deputy Sheriff Cunningham besides.
caused the plaintiffs attorney to fore
60 the privilege of incarcerating Duffy.
The deputy sheriff and his assistants
merely gave Duffy a ride past the Jail
in an automobile and then took him
back to the hotel.
Duffy is detained on a body writ is
sued on request of the Pequonnock
Foundry. The suit is for $4,000 dam
ages, but as the defendant is also held
in connection with the alleged injury
which three other concerns the Mon
umental Bronze Company, the Bridge
port Deoxidized Bronze Company ani
the Manufacturers Iron Foundry-havc
suffered through the strikes, three ad.
ditional actions for $4,000 are filed
against him. AS Duffy has no attach
able property in Connecticut, it wss
deemed necessary to hold him on ,
body writ.
Duffy Accused of Threats.
The writ alleges that the defendant
conspired to hurt the business of the
concerns. Further, he is charged with
calling at the Offices of the foundries
and threatening to call a strike if the
demands of the union men were no..
complied with. 1t is also set up in the
writ that he threatened the wives and
children of the workers if the men re-
turned 70 their former employment. II
is stated ths. Duffy, while a former
moulder and prominent officer in the
New York locals of that trade, is not
now connected with the moulders'
union, but is a representative Of the
American Federation Of Labor
Attorney Thomas NJ. Cullinan, coun-
sci for the moulders' union. said this
afternoon that arrangements had been
made by national officers of the union
for the bond which will arrive to-mor-
row.
Ridiculous" said Duffy to-day in
reference to the charges.
"Why," he said, "here they are sc-
cusing me of having interfered with
business By instigating strikes at the
Monumental Bronze Company and the
Pequonnock Foundry, when | wasn't
called in here until long after the men
were called out
"They say cost them s50,0o0 each
for four weeks. That's $1,000 a week
each. One foundry had seventeen
moulders Pm not counting the helpers
and coremakers. because they're non
PRODUCERS. How can a plant make
$4,000 n week on seventeen moulers'
work ?"
Concerning his alleged appearance in
n Offices Of the foundries with
threats, Duffy said that he had never
seen some Of the factories that are
suing him.
Charges Denied by Duffy.
"As for my threatening the wives
and children of the workers" he said.
1--WE have a committee which investi-
gates the homes of the strikers to see
II the amount the union allows them
each week is sufficient for their needs.
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