The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-04-22
JUDGEPARDEE.
SEVERE DECISION AGAINST
THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR,
SOME SENT TO JAIL.
SENSATIONAL NEWS OVER THE
STATE-FATAL SHOOTING
n SKELETON.
special Telegram to the Statesman.

DALLAS, April l7.-Judge Pardee. of the United
States ci.cait court for the northern district of
Texas, At Dallas, to-day delivered decision in the
cases OF the strikers held there by the United States
authorities. Judge Pardee declares thar the re-
ccivers OF the Texas Pacific and the property of the
company in the custody of the court are entitled 10
and must have full protection of the court If any
employe of the receivers has a grievance he can
bring the matter before the court, and the court
VIII see mat justice Is done. Labor CARNATIONS
are la"tul and generally laudable associations but
they nave no legal status or authority and stand
OetOre men and the law on no better footing than
nther social organizations and it is preposterOus
that they should attempt to issue orders that free
men are bound to obey, and no ma. can stand in a
court OF Justice and shelter himself behind any
suCn UrsSaiIati4n from the consequence IF his
1t is part of this lease and has been establish
ed by evidence taken under the direction Of the
court that among all the employees of the receiver
IN operating over 900 miles of railway there was
no complaint made to the receivers or to the
court or any employee of bad treatment or INSULT
Gent wages, or other grievances, and vet orders
were Issued from secret organization for all the
employees to quit work. to cripple the operations
OF great thoroughfare for travel and commerce.
and many employees, confederating and combin,
ing, did quit and induce others to quit. and hin
dered and DELAYED the operation of the railway
and damaged the property in possession of ia
court many thousand dollars. This action was
gross contempt of court, VIII lily unreasonable and
nniustiiable.
The court has learned, through the newspapers
ana from certain scaDdalOus and anonymous cfrcu-
lars, that this wrong was committed because
the agents OF the receivers had dis
charged as incompetent and for absence
without leave, certain employe, and refused o
reinstate him at the demand of labor orpaniza-
ions, which claimed that the disc barge was i'm yiO
latOn Cf an agreement forced upOn the managers
of the road prior to the receivership. The court
can not listen to the demands of any secret organi
cation, whether alleged to he social religious DO
htical, or economical in its character If any en-
ploye was Improperly discharged by the unions or
thelr agents. the court was open to hear him, and
was willing to see justice done No such com
plants has been made, and doubt much if such
a case eNi is
such alleged reason was d mere show and pre-
tence. The r'al motive of the order t. strike was
to c"np+l the recognition of IA certain secret labor
organization which, by the evidence, has been
shown to be about arbitrary and autocratic deal
ing with labor, as the famous six companies of
China, as an existing power So that its officers
snail he consulted in the operation and manage
ment of railroads. in which they do not own
any interest and OF which they do not even pretend
10 he employees. These present cases show that
trlillng with the courts of the land was not sui-
Gently criminal in the eyes of many of the leaders
OF these misguided men, and they with others have
hands of the Uaited States courts should not be
operated and managed at all, unless with their con
sent and upon their terms, and violence and in
and bulldOZing have been resOrted to-
TO prevent the officers of the court from perforr
lng their duty. The power of the court and the
laws IN punshlng such cases, is unlimited in its
terms in imposing fines or Imprisonment.
-Four received sentences of imprisonment in the
Dallas county Jail for fifteen, thirty and ninety
lays and three months, respectively. The cases of
four were postponed and three were dismissed.