**Date:** 6-9-61
**Source:** Unknown
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plant during the evening hours set off the mass picketing and violence the boroughs. The union attorney then asked that Smith how many shoes were normally produced in the plant a day, to which Smith answered 120,000. Baker then asked if, after the strike is settled, could the company in two days, by using all its facilities, produce the necessary number of sample shoes, which Smith said to be 45,000 pairs. Smith said, “Emphatically No”, adding this would not be practical. Ronald Hadley, model sales manager, was called to the stand to testify to the need for the Judge Gaffney stated that he recognizes the fact that if the strike is prolonged everybody will be hurt, the union members and families were already hurt. The Judge said that he wants to stop violence and is not interested in who is going to suffer the most, union or company. Meiligan was asked by the union attorney as to the oral agreement that no one enter the plant after 6 p.m. Meiligan said that he didn’t expect anyone would enter the plant after the normal working hours. Under questioning he said that approximately 30 or 40 persons had been brought in to the plant the evening before the first violence when the union said it would not permit shipment. Meiligan said, however, that work was started before 8 a.m. the following day. He believed that there was around-the-clock picketing in those days of the strike before he had an informal conversation with the opposition. Then picketing was only confined between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. Meiligan returned to the stand on the request of the union attorney to testify to whether Smith had not made a statement at the May 15th meeting that he would honor the agreement Meiligan said that Smith had not made such a statement. Judge Gaffney asked again yesterday if a written notice had been given the union that the company did not consider the agreement to be in effect. He was told, no, that it was merely an oral announcement. Approximately a dozen 45 members were in the afternoon session yesterday. They brought possibly a ruling on the injunction would be announced at the close of the hearing and were disappointed that it will be another week before the decision is reached. Judge Gaffney reminded the company and assured the union that the footwear plant until an announcement of the decision on the restraining injunction is made. He said that he was anxious to resolve the briefs as soon as possible in order to expedite the matter. The decision is expected at the end of next week. However, Judge Gaffney said that he would not be hurt to find the company is guilty.