The Connecticut labor news., 1922-08-18

on any such proceeding, arguing that the defendants were not in court to argue the case but in objection to the proceedings going on as they were because of the errors in service. They did not make a general appearance and didn't intend to file any answer until the writ, he said, and if the court should rule against the contention an immediate appeal woudl be hlsd.
 MT. Schaefe then asked to be al- lowed to go on and make out a prima facie case to prove his contention but MT. Danaher objected unless all rights and reservations were sustain ed to the defendants. "We do not appear here at all as yet in this mat ter," he said, unless all our rights are preserved we will decline to go ahead"
 The court ruled that all rights would be conserved, the marshaPs testimony assumed until facts proved otherwise and over MT. Danaher's ex captions allowed the case to proceed. Mr. Schaefe then proceeded to offer a ions dating from far back in 1921 and dealing with the shop crafts protests, which he declared covered the basis of the strike. He also offered records to prove the railroad was post road" or a mail carrier and then offered copies of the three. official strike ballots taken by the striking shopmen.
 Simon E. Lonergan, New Haven manager of the Western Union, was then called to the stand and ordered to produce a mass of telegrams ex- changed between national and local officers, especially John C. Ready. chairman of the System Federation on the New Haven. That the road had its spies actively at work was shown by the fact that 4 the railroad had typewriter copies Eof te1egrams sent and received which the Western Union manager had no record of These numbered a dozen or more and were considerede highly important by the road attorneys but they could not be found-for the very good reason that they were not filed at the local office it later developed.
 The telegrams had to do principally with the sanction of the strike by the international officers, the sending broadcast of this sanction by Mr. Ready and other officers and the re- plies received as to the result of the WdlkOuC on July al 10 0 CLOCK They wound up by telegram sent by MT. Ready warning other officers of MT. Bardo addressing the men and warning them not to-strike and of a trip over the road by Bardo and Oviatt for the same purpose. Anoth- CT telegram received by him asked ad- vice, because the officers were "not able to hold the men," This is ex- pected to prove boomerang inas- much as it will show the officers did not lead the men into the fray but that the men insisted upon the action themselves Court recessed then for noon until 2 o'clock.
 During the recess the attorneys went into conference with Judge Thomas and the result was the ad- journment to Norwalk Just before recess MT. Schaefe stated that he in tended to enter a mass of afldavits to bear out the contention the strik- CTS were interfering with the roads operation to its irreparable damage. An exceptionally large crowd was congregating to hear them inasmuch as it is on these the road bases it's application for the restraining order. They were disappointed as the case had been adjourned.
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