The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-10


 failed to make out a case
 The defense opened with the calling of John C. Ready, president of System Federation 16, who presided at the meet ing in Trades Council hall on November 2 last year at which Schliefer is accused of making the alleged melting remarks. Ready and the states attorney clasned almost continuously during the tsial es- pesially when the testimony verged on visit of the witness to the states attorn- ey office on order of MT. Allinn and what happened there Ready declared that he was shown a murder warrant when he went in. and that state officer tried to CO., cree him in to say things he didn't be- lieve.
 Mr. Ready emphatically denied that Schliefer ever said the things attributed to him the talk about putting sand Tn joornal boxes and doing other acts of sabotage being simple rehearsal of what was being and claimed by the railroad in order to get the injunctions. On the con- trary he said Sch1iefer after recof1nting these things warned the strikers against them so that the railroad would have nothing OH them. He was followed by score of others nine being put on in one afternoon.
 Harold s Reardon, Charles F. Cava-
 
 William Ritson. Bessie McNulty, Mrs. Catherine Freytag, Mrs. Mary Conley and William E. Bisconer testified to hav- ing attended the meeting in Trades Council hall and to having heard Mfr Schliefer make his speech They recited what they could remember of the speech Asked by the defense if Schliefer said anything like that which the railroad witnesses, Satti and Marks, had testified to, they said he did not One witness said if Schliefer had made any such re marks she surely would have heard them
 William Rtson, of 28 Linden street, said he was employed as a machinist and for some time as foreman on the New Haven road for 20 years At present he IS employed in the Greist shop. Dur ing cross-examination he was asked If he is still on strike. Mir Ritson replied "Yes, and I am still working somewhere else"
 After having finished reciting the Scilleifer speech Mir. Ritson was asked If he remembered any other details. To this he replied that after leaving the stand in the cityeourt he remembered a whole lot he could not recall while Tn the box, and he thought it would be the same. Asked if It were not an easy thing to take off brake shoe key MT. Ritson
 
 because 1t took him too long, Mir. Kit son said after key is set 1t jars down good and tight and 1t takes hammer and some strength to get 1t out again Tn 90 times out of 100 Asked to explain about having been a machinist foreman. Mir Ritson replied that as such he was working more hours and getting less pay than the men, so he returned to the for mer position. Asked to explain how he was taken off as a foreman and put back in his former position Mir. Ritson said the night shift was letting too many en- zines blow out and 1t was decided to make an example. It so happened that they made him the goat though he was on the day shift. But one engine blew out on him. Mir Ritson said: Well, 1 was satisfied with the shift back because 1t meant less hours and more pay" Some little time was devoted to mo- ton which had been earlier submitted by the defense for the exclusion of certain testimony Part of this was the testi- mony of Special Railroad Officers Marks and Satti, as to their having ad journed after the meeting of Novernber 2 to Woods drug store and there made notes of the meeting. The court ruled that such evidence remain on the record. The admissiblty of cretain evidence of J dIIlGS N. MCMd0OIi, OI GEIC Idl1- road police, was also argued and was al so allowed to stand The defense had claimed that the chiefs evidence was but hearsay, being based upon the reports of others as to conditions prevailing the road during the strike. Exception asked by the defense and noted
 Walter +. B1Sconer, resumed his testi- nony, and asked as to the substances of Schleifer's speech regarding the railroad said that the speaker said that the men had been accused by the officials of various things, including putting sand in the journals and removing brake shoe { keys.
 The speaker. witness said, had stated that the various acts of violence and sa- ootage had been attributed to the men for the purpose of obtaining the federal injunction to which he also referred. Did Schliefer say put some sand in he journals
 "He did'not"
 Did he say put some cars oc the irons ?"
 Did he say bump a few off"
 "He did not"
 Did he says Hay for the scabs on pay iay?"
 "He did not"
 Anton Endriss of Hallock avenue, a