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Show Trotection' Chief PEARL BEROOFF His son told of business STRIKEBREAKER ACTIVITIES TOLD NEW HAVEN, Conn., Nov. (UP) Government attorneys summoned sum-moned more witnesses today In a:i attempt to prove that James H. Rand Jr., president of Remington-Rand, Remington-Rand, Inc., and Pearl Bergoff, head of a New York strikebreaking agency, had violated the Byrnes act by transporting strikebreakers across a state line during a strike at the industrialist's Middletown plant last year. The trial began yesterday in federal fed-eral district court before a jury of 10 men and two women. It is one of the first trials for an alleged violation of the act. Leo B. Santangelo. one of the government's first witnesses, testified testi-fied that he was mayor of Middle-town Middle-town when Rand and Bergoff were alleged to have moved strikebreakers strikebreak-ers into the Middletown Remington-Rand Remington-Rand plant. He aaid that Rand conferred with him on June 26. 193. expressed fear of violence during dur-ing the strike and requested protection. protec-tion. Forty policemen were assigned as-signed to strike duty, he said. Earl Bergoff. aon of the code-fendant. code-fendant. said that the business of the Bergoff Industrial Service corporation cor-poration of New York was "strikebreaking, "strike-breaking, the preventing of strikes and the giving of protection to those persons who desire to work in a plant which Is experiencing labor difficulties." |