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Show UtllO;iEXTORTION : TRIAL LAUNCHED " LOS ANGELES, May 4 (INS) - In one of the most unusual labor - Chrysler motors plant employes, ail ..CIO unionists, were ea trial in . Los Angeles today accused of at- tempted extortion. The defendants, .. It Is charged, tried te force nonunion non-union plant workers into the union 1 and pay dues. The alleged attempt to make the nonunion men pay - '"dues, aa well aa join the union, la 1 the basis of the attempted extor- tion charge, i So Important la the case In the '. opinion of ail labor leaders that for i tha first time attoroneya for the I ' American Federation of Labor have . joined with counsel for the enemy -Congress of Industrial Organisations in defense of the C I O men. Attorneys lo Koeencrana, LKto .". Emme and Bayard Rountree of the ' ' A F L have associated themaelvee ..' with the C I O lawyers, A, L. Wirin - and Graver Johnson. V ' Crux of the prosecution, from the - laber viewpoint, waa described by Johnson, who said; "There was no violence at the Chrysler plant. So If the collection of union dues Is held to be extor-'" extor-'" tion thea the labor movement In California Is doomed." Oa the other hand. Deputy Dis-trict Dis-trict Attorney Russell Parsons in- ented ke eUi peeve -there waa w-lenoe w-lenoe at the plant and that non-,-- union workers were beaten, threat-ened threat-ened and abused until they . joined J - the United Automobile Workers of I " America and oontributed dues. |