The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-17

The case has been practically a
 year in the courts, the offense with which Schleifer was charged being
 alleged to have occurred at a meet ing In Trades Council hall, New Ha- ven, on November p last. Its con
 clusion marked one of the bitterest cases seen in the Connecticut courts
 in some time, railroad men openly declaring that at times this bitterness
 secution. When the case came be-
 fore the courts for trial, however, the trial justices ruled out all personal att tacks and so far as the actual trials in the courts were concerned every thing was conducted absolutely fair ly. The bitterness was not pro- nounced on the part of the officials but through efforts on the part of the railroad attaches to make an example of Schleifer, which finally drew State Attorney filling into the matter long before it became a case in which he would be interested as prosecutor.
 The case was first tried out before the city court in New Haven and Schleifer bound over to the Superior court The binding over was largely based on the production by City Att torney Whitaker of a batch of old letters written by Schleifer in which 1t was claimed "anarehistic leanings" were pronounced. Meantime Schlei- fer's bonds had been fixed at $5o,ooo but through efforts of Attorneys Thomas J. Spe1lacy of Hartford and Benjamin Slade of New Haven were reduced to $5.ooo and promptly post ed by union labor men and Schleifer his liberty.
 When the case came to trial in the high courts, the attorneys renewed the points made in the city court that Schleifer had violated no law as no such law existed. The legislature was about to convene when this point was raised and MT. filling prepared a bill covering the case and had 1t in- troduced nthe legislature and speed fly put through. The objections were overruled in the high court and ap- peal to the Supreme Court taken bur that tribunal ordered the case to go on and it went to trial three weeks ago Tuesday.
 The main evidence against Sch1ei- fer was the testimony of paid rail- road spies who swore to having att tended the meeting at which Schleifer is alleged to have made the remarks urging the strikers to do damage to New Haven road rolling stock and the strikebreakers who had taken the strikers places. This testimony was -efuted by scores of shopmen also at he meeting who declared Schleifer never made any such remarks and hat what he said that might have oeen construed as such was simply -eading reports of what had been go- ng on in other sections of the coun- ry. and counseling the New Haven nen against doing likewise. Schleifer himself on the stand for three days lenied the statements in toto and re- terated he never had any intent to Irge on such action.
 The case to Organized Labor men n this section is too we'll known to leed much more comment. All this week 1t was battle between the state awyers and the attorneys for the de- ense on technical points of law with ,chleifer on the stand between times learly mudd1ed by the wordy battle .oing on about him. States Attorney Alling brought in the Tom Mooney ase through a letter written by 'chliefer asking for copies of "The 'ocial War" which he said showed 'chliefer to have anarchistic tenden- ies. MT. S1ade offset this calim by howing the Social War" was noth- ng more than a federal commissions eport declaring the Mooney convic-
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