The Connecticut labor news., 1923-04-20
Persecution of Schleifer Continues After Court Holds
 No Law Has Been Broken
of New Haven Road Seems to Be Para mount to Rights of Citizens in the Minds of
 Some Public Officials, to Judge By Their :
 Actions and Public Statements.

States Attorney Arnon A. filling lost no time in making an application to the Supreme Court on the decision Of Judge Webb of the Superior Court
 sustaining the demurrer of Attorneys Benjamin Slade and Thomas J. Spel- Ernest |. SchleifeT out of court on the ground that violation of the law had not been shown in the information on which his arrest had
 been caused.
 If this action was an indication of
 jealous service on the part of a pub lie official 1t would undoubtedly call forth public commendation, but when 1t seems to be an effort to show per sonal and official antagonism differ
 ent aspect IS given the entire pro- ceedIng.
 If Ernest Schleifer violated the laws of the state then he should be pun ished, but if he did not then any ana every attempt to infict punishment is public official who follows that course dure as Lenine, Trotzky and their henchmen in benighted Russia.
 SChleifer was arrested several weeks ago on a charge of melting men to commit various offenses and the states attorney~has neglected no op- portunity to harshly arraign the vic tim on every conceivable occasion. In arguing other court cases Schleifer $ name was injected continuously and in a legislative hearing at Hartford the same tactics were pursued.
 The states attorney did not seem to be able to await the trial of the case in court in the usual order of procedure, but needs must continually harass the victim of his persecution whenever and wherever the opportun- ity presented itself.
 The same methods pursued in the prosecution of other criminal cases would have brought forth such hue and cry as to have created a storm of public disapproval He seemed to imagine that 1t was a poor, working man he was after and he adopted the the methods, 1t would seem, that were employed by now thoroughly dis credited individuals and organiza- tions during the days of high excitement when this country was engaged in the awful struggle across the Atlantic
 Crying Red" and Radical sue ceeded in. getting some citizens seek ing publicity into the limelight, but 1t was quickly discovered that the mo- toriety was of short duration, and in more than one~i instance 1t was noted that 1t was but a cloak to cover up shortcomings or misdeeds.
 After almost a daily display of oratorical fireworks on the part of the states attorney, consisting largely of rockets denouncing Schleifer as a Red" and Radical" trying to inn prss the public apparently, with the idea that a veritable terror was lose in the community, the states attor- ney is aroused from his dreams and learns through the decision of Judge Webb that there is no law under which the charges made can be sus- tained and he immediately begins to see red.
 Not only does he appeal to the Supreme Court, but he hastens to have a law presented to the Legisla- ture a bill that would make 1t possi- ble to convict along the lines which would suit his sweet will In other words his particular friend, the New Haven road has been attacked and since the king can do no wrong and no law is found that. would protect the "king" then a law must be passed for that purpose.
 The case came up before Judge Webb on the demurrer last Friday, and after carefully studying the facts