The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-04
Road dSpends: Vast Sumto
 Coerce Men
Guards Cost $365,ooo in Four Weeks Court Is Told, but Dismisses Injunction.
Lawyers Are Peeved
Error in Dating of Subpoenas Up- sets Case and They Have to
 Start All Over.

The strike of railroad shopmen cost the New Haven road approxi- mately $365,2 200 for the first four weeks of July, "just to protect its loyal employees" according to declar- ations of the roads attorneys before Judge Thomas in the United States Court in New Haven last Saturday morning in seeking to have the tenn porary injunction against the strikers made permanent. The road and it's attorneys didn't succeed for the very pertinent fact that in the summonses to court of the officers of the strikers restrained the date was made July Io instead of July 2o as intended This glaring error was promptly picked up by Attorneys Danaher and O'Keefe representing the workmen, and after much argument Judge Thomas de- clared he feared the consequence of going ahead with the petition, inas- much as the road hads admitted in- tent of preferring contempt charges against many strikers and he ~there- fore granted MT. Danaher's motion to dismiss the order. The road asked to appeal but was informed by the court 1t wouldn't do any good so the learned limbs of the law represent ing the anti-workersp union, had to recourse to starting all over again which they did that same afternoon, secured another temporary restrain ing order and hearing on that will be held Tuesday next at Io:3o o'clock. . The lawyers for the road, just like the road itself, died hard. They fought the strikers contention for more than two hours and even sug- gested that they shouldn't be blamed for clerical error of the court. This suggestion didn't apparently have much weight with the court or the hundreds of strikers present for the writs looked suspiciously as if they had been prepared in the railroad signing and the error in date had been made by the road itself. Clerk of Court Pickett didn't seem much worried over the insinuation, espe
 cially so when the court passed 1t over and denied the petition in toto
 In rendering his decision Judge Thomas agreed to the regret on both sides that the case was not to be tried out on it's merits, as the learned law yers for the road cla1nored they de- sired But he said the court obvi- ously lacked jurisdiction when the strikers were summoned into court on a date before the summons was really issued and he feared the con- sequences that might arise if con tempt charges were pressed. The road attorneys professed to having more than 100 cases of brutal attacks on the patriotic workers of the road and then admitted the road had spent the vast sum mentioned for their pro- lection. What the lawyers got out of .4 lx x1, 1.A they neglected to specify, but let 1t more than $I2,ooo a day, according to this the bonus paid foremen and inefficient workmen are totall1ng up such huge sum that the road will be forced to look for another loan from the government in the near future, if indeed 1t has any assets left that 1t can pledge for such loan.
 In his decision Judge Thomas re- marked that perhaps the road might be entitled to the reliefyand order 1t asked if it's allegations made could be borne out. He also said some other fine things about the rights of both sides but added that the writ as be- fore him had lots of defects that he couldn't overlook.
 There was court stenographer present and to be fair to the road and give it all the salve possible on it's wounds, the editor of The Labor News approached and asked for a | copy of the judges remarks when the notes were typewriter. It was learned then that the stenographer | was hired by the railroad to take vol | luminous notes to bolster up its prop | aganda, but being a public steno- grapher he was willing to make an |
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