DELAY IN TRIAL OF BUCKMAN MEN IS SEEN
Delay In Trial of Buck man Men Is Seen 2 Witnesses Too III To Appear In Court May 13, Claim Although the trial dale was deferred one week to May 13 for 11 former officers and employes of E. 2....
...Ouster of Three Charwomen Is Held Unfair The state supreme court last week upheld a ruling of the Wisconsin employment relations board Issued Aug...
...The Indictment under which the defendants face trial charges that Casey and Bracy counseled some of the other defendants to sell certain stocks...
...Atty...
...The company then appealed to the supreme court...
...upheld the board's ruling...
...we will probably ask for a continuance, because we deem the presence of Casey and Bracy very material to the defense...
...Before he announced that he would take under advisement the various defense motions for information on the indictment...
...Delay In Trial of Buck man Men Is Seen 2 Witnesses Too III To Appear In Court May 13, Claim Although the trial dale was deferred one week to May 13 for 11 former officers and employes of E. 2. Buck-man and Co...
...Atty...
...The court heard arguments yesterday on a defense demand for a bill of particulars...
...Gilbert Vandercook, Milwaukee, counsel for Fielding T. Spain, Milwaukee, another defendant, described Casey as "an essential material witness for the defense...
...and 3racy is confined to his home, having suffered two strokes, Keller informed Judge Charles G. Briggle, Springfield, 111., who is presiding in the case...
...We conclude that there is substantial credible and competent evidence to sustain the findings that these discharges constituted a discrimination against the employes dismissed because of their activities looking towards a unionization of their stall...
...The record contains sufficient statements by Mr...
...The defense is expected to take an equal length of time...
...Fears "Tale-Bearing" Dist...
...John J. Boyle said the government plans to proceed with the trial regardless of whether Casey and Bracy are able to appear...
...The derision had been given by the old LaFollette labor relations board before it had been superceded by the Hell labor board...
...In asking for more specific information on the part each defendant was supposed to play in the alleged mail fraud conspiracy, Bullington said: "The tendency in cases of this kind Is for one defendant to unload on the others...
...After a careful review of the records, we arc of the opinion that there was ample credible arfd competent evidence to require the conclusion that the board's findings are supported by the evidence...
...Kasik, president, operating manager and principal stockholder indicating his attitude towards unions and his strong objections, vigorously put before his employes, to their engaging in any union activities...
...It is important for the defendants to know specifically and directly what they are charged with, and yet there's always the danger of handicapping the government in the prosecution of crime by being too technical and too severe...
...While I feel that there are some matters which the government should supply, that is not true of all the requests...
...Judge Briggle said: "I doubt If there are any great questions of law involved here...
...Asked by Judge Briggle how long he thought the trial would take, Dist...
...Casey is critically ill...
...Keller said that Bracy had volunteered to take the stand as a defense witness...
...of Milwaukee guilty of unfair labor practices in discharging three charwomen...
...Milwaukee, counsel for Frank Shotola, Chicago, former Milwaukee branch manager, rose to his feet at this point and said: "In that caee...
...18, 1939, holding the Century Building Co...
...An indication that some of the defendants may start "telling tales on each other" was seen in a statement yesterday by John P. Bullington, Houston, Tex., attorney for E. J. Crofoot, Bay City, Tex...
...20, 1939...
...who face federal charges of mall fraud and security law violations, defense pleas for postponement because of the illness of two witnesses may be filed before that time, it was stated In federal court last week...
...The company appealed from the order to Circuit Judge Charles L. Aarorts of Milwaukee, who on Oct...
...Fred R. Wright...
...both of whom are defendants and former Buckman salesmen, said that both would probably be too ill to appear for trial May 13...
...The decision, written by Justice John D. Wickhem said: "When an employer dismisses an employe for union activities or discriminates with respect to his tenure for this reason, it is of no consequence that the discharged employe Is not actively a member of the union...
...The board had ordered the reinstatement of Anna Shoman, Katherine Mashak, and Frances Knapak, payment of $25 to each of them and full wages from the time the board's order was issued until the women were reemployed...
...Boyle said he thought it would take three or four weeks for the prosecution to put in its case...
...The announcement of the possible •postponement pleas came after L. Hugo Keller, Milwaukee, counsel for James C. Casey, Green Bay, and Louis P. Bracy, Oshkosh...
Vol. 10 • April 1940 • No. 16
