The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-22
STATE FEARS TO
USE SCAB LAWYER
IN BOYCOTT TRIAL
Taylor Not Called in
Upholsterers' Case

Fire which the DAILY WORKER
and the Chicago labor movement has
directed against Dudley Taylor, at
torney for the Illinois Employers AS
ISOLATION, caused the state to drop
him as a witness in the trial for con-
spirscy to boycott, which Taylor in
itiated in Criminal Court before Judge
Wells againt the Upholsterers'
Union.
The prosecution closed its case
against the FIVE union men, held for
their part in the upholsterer's strike,
without calling the man who framed
the case, altho Assistant States At
torney Romano had promised the jury
that Taylor would be called.
Taylor Leader In Plot.
All the evidence which the state had
against the four union upholsterers
and Fred Jurish, the union painter
who wouldn't work with scab up
holsterers during the strike, had been
procured by Taylor in cross examine
ton of the unionists in the states at
torney's Office, that had been conve-
nlently loaned him for his strike
breaking purposes. Therefore he was
the most important witness in the
case.
Robert Bronson, secretary of the
Carpet, Upholstery and Diapers as
ISOLATION, took Taylor's place and
testited concerning the questioning
OF some OF the defendants in the
presence of assistant states attor-
neys and Dudley Taylor and himself.
Bronson testified that he and Tav-
lor had gone TO the states ATTORNEYS
once and thai Thomas O'Shea and
Mlchael McKenna, business agents
OF the upholsterers' union, were
brought in by police officers of the
states attorneys office. He testified
tnat both Taylor and himself asked
the defendants questions.
Bronson 'Didn't Know"
Bronson said that he did not
know if Taylor had asked the first
Assistant States Attorney jonas 10
send for the men. lie dcnicd that
taylor ordered the men to come to
the Office of the assistant states at
torney with the books of the union.
He said they were asked 10 re-
turn to the Office of the states attor-
ney the mex day and bring the books
of the union.
Worried by Sucker.
Bronson said, when questioned en-
direct examination by Assistant
States Attorney Romano that he had
called Mckenna and O'Shea to his
Office and there warned them that
their campaign Of placing ti-kcfs
on buildings in the course uf con-
struction, telling building trades
workers to ask upholsterers, working
on tfc same jobs with them for
their union cards, was illegal. He
said, however, that ts had not given
them his opinion that placing such
stickers might leave thsin oren "a
criminal prosecution. About a
month after he had the conversation
with O'Shea and McKenna, he said
he and Taylor went to the Office Of
The states attorney ~ cnlisl his aid
TO stop the stickcr campaign.
The states attorneys, who ques.
toned the members Of the Upholster-
. 0Ah biAAOH AZ LnclT ONCE later, sent
, Dudley Taylor transcript Of the
questions and answers they, Taylor
and Bronson asked, he said.
Bs5T ,~n admitted t5-t "a hac
! gone to a certain job on Mayfielc
avenue, Chicago, where Fred Jurish
one Of the men on trial was work
ing, TO question him about his effort,
10 get non-union upholsterers to stoy
work. He said that he had beer
told that Jurish had stopped the non
union men from working by sayine
! that he would either quit or the non
4 union men would have to quit.
v Bronson said that he flashed III,
}. badge Of special deputy sheriff
e on Jurish before he questioned him
: He had been sworn as a specia
r deputy sheriff last December he said
G He did not say what duties he hat
as a deputy sheriff aside from at
n tempting 10 intimidate union nler
$ who objeosed T. working with scabs
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