Superintendent Blaize left she heard Levi Joseph
telling the pickets to make more noise, adding and
demonstrating, ‘‘ This is the way it should be
done”. Victoria Frederick says that at a certain
stage on that Saturday, after the defendant Joseph
had told the pickets to shout and they were behav-
ing very noisily, she saw the defendants Bird, Lake,
Hurst, Williams, Carrott and Ireland come to
the corner of Thames and Long Streets. ‘The
defendant Joseph went to the pickets and then to
the other defendants.

Gertrude O’Neal also alleges that one day, soon
after the commencement of the picketing, a Mrs.
Scouten, up to then a regular customer, was
approaching the Drug Store when she was stopped
by a picket and told she was not supposed to come
in; since then Mrs. Scouten has never returned.

Another incident, the precise date of which
cannot be fixed, is reported by Cardigan Stevens.
He says he was going to O’Neal’s Drug Store,
intending to enter through one of the doors facing
Thames Street, and an elderly woman of the
labouring class was ahead of him going into the
same door when two pickets (one a Dominican),
who appeared not to realise that he was behind,
“ converged ” on the woman, shouting at the top of
their voices, “‘ Hold the line”; the woman didn’t
bother with them, and they closed in behind her as
she went into the door, the Dominican shouting at
her ina most threatening and intimidating manner:
“You don’t hear what I say. I say hold the line”.

Gertrude O'Neal says that on 15th October
a young womun coming to the Drug Store was
surrounded by pickets who shouted loudly at her,
and that when the woman afterwards entered the
Store she was “‘almost in a state of collapse”.

Cardigan Stevens alleges that on 22nd October
he was at the Drug Store and saw the Dominican,
already referred to, and two other pickets approach
“in a threatening attitude” a woman who was in
the act of going into the store, the Dominican
shouting “You don’t hear what I tell you”, as
if he would strike the woman; the woman got
frightened and started to tremble and went back to
the street.

Evidence is given by a schoolgirl, Veronica
Harris, with respect to something that happened on
25th October. She says she was sent from the
Red Cross Depot to O’Neal’s Drug Store to collect
a pair of forceps, and that as she and three other
girls with her were approaching the Store one of
the pickets said ‘‘ Hold the line”’; they (the girls)
“took it as a joke and ran off laughing ”; as they
did so they “ butt on each other and fell down”;
her knee got bruised in the gutter. It appears to
me that this girl’s evidence cannot be taken as
proving anything against the pickets.

Cardiyan Stevens further states that on Ist
November he heard Assistant Superintendent Blaize
reprimanding the Dominican previously mentioned,
but did not know what for. Assistant Superinten-
dent Blaize, however, was asked nothing about this
when he was in the witness box.

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Clement Nelson’s testimony is about the 11th
of November; he says he was going to the Drug
Store when the defendant Samuel addressed him
thus: “ Nelson, don’t you hear you must not go
there to buy. You is a dog’. He states that
when he left the store Samuel followed him and
added: “You going to want the Union and you
burning your own coals”,

Finally, we come to an incident concerning
the 26th of November. Linda O’Neal alleges that
on that day the defendant Samuel said something
which she did not hear to Mrs. Allen of Mill Reef,
who then asked him what “ Hold the line” meant,
and that he replied it meant that nobody is
supposed to go into the Drug Store to buy; when
Mrs. Allen asked why, he said: “ Miss O’Neal
would not pay the girl the money. She is unfair.”

Turning now to the defence, I will first
dispose of the short witnesses. The evidence of
Ernest Athill and Norris Abbott was to the effect
that since the inauguration of the picketing they
have often been to O’Neal’s Drug Store and have
never been molested or in any way interfered with;
they never saw any misbehaviour by the pickets.
Joseph Laurent said he left O’Neal’s Drug Store
in June, 1955, and in late July opened his own
Drug Store in St. John’s, about quarter of a mile
away from O’Neal’s; quite a few of the customers
who dealt with O’Neal’s when he was there now
deal with him; “things slowed down (at his drug
store) around September; they improved slightly
around October and November”. Joseph Hughes,
whose work requires him to be at the Magistrate’s
Court opposite O’Neal’s Drug Store for two days
of each week, testified that that section of the Citv
is a business section and is always noisy; he has
heard shouting at all times; among other things,

he has heard ‘* Hold the line”.

The only persons called as witnesses by the
defence besides Athill, Abbott, Laurent and
Hughes, were the defendants Hurst, Levi
Joseph and Lake. They emphasised that at no
time did the Union or anyone on its behalf
demand payment of compensation in respect of
Miss Winter’s dismissal; payment of compensa-
tion was a recommendation of the Board of
Inquiry; the Executive Committee of the Union
were prepared to accepi the recommendation as
a means of settlement of the dispute, which
they had done everything in their power to have
settled in accordance with the legislative and
other machinery provided for settling such
disputes; the object of the picketing was
discussed at the meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee held on 9th September, the consensus of
opinion being that it was to pass on information
to the public with regard to the dispute so that

no one would accept employment at O’Neal’s

and so that public opinion might be brought to
bear on the matter; the duties of the pickets
were also discussed at the meeting and outlined
to the General Secretary: the pickets were to
hold placards and pass on information; the
General Secretary was also instructed to take
steps to ensure that the picketing is done ina