Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-30
THE JEANEETTE SUITS.
Hon. Walter Lyon Enters Suit Against
Mckee, Chambers, Campbell and sIickeF
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Hon. Walter Lyon Enters Suit Against
Mckee, Chambers, Campbell and slickeF
Answers TO be Filed in Two Weeks.
| Yesterday afternoon United States District
Attorney Lyon entered suit to recover the
penalty of 81, 900 for violation of the foreign
contract labor law in the Jeanette glass
| workers case The suit is intended as a test,
and Charles Ford was picked out as the glass
worker on whom to base the proceedings The
defendants in the suit are the Chambers & Nc
Kee Glass Company, James A. Chambers, H.
Sellers Mckee, James Campbell and William
Sllcker. The bill fled is as follows:
II. ID. Gamble, Esq.,, Clerk Of Courts:
Issue summons in assumpsit in above entitled
case. Returnable next return day.
WALTER LYON.
United States Attorney.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, lss
WESTERN DISTRICT OF PEEN'A, }eo.
The United States, by Walter Lyon. United
sylvania, complains OF the Chambers 3 Mckee
GLASS Company, corporation Of the state Of
Mckee, james Campbell and William sllcker, de-
tendants in the case. for thar whereas:
The Chambers u Mckee Glass Com pany, James
A. Chambers. H. Sellers Mckee. James Campbell
and William Slicker. the defendants aboye-named,
States in the sum Of 81 OCO for the violation Of an
Aet =. OF Congress Of the United states. entitled
grafton Of foreigners and aliens under contract or
agreement to perform Ia Dor in the United States.
IT'S territories and the District Of Columbia, ap-
proved the 18th day Of February 1856, which Act
Of Congress is fully set forth in the United States
statutes at Large, vol q page sS2
the sale Chambers Mckee Glass Company
James S.Is A. ChamPers TI1. H. Sellers Mckee James
named. to-wit on or about the 18th day of March,
1889. did violate the first section OF said act Of
and Soliciting the migration and importation Of
CHARLES f Ford an alien and FOREIGNER; and native
derland. England, and subject Of the Queen OF
Great Britain and Ireland. into the United States,
to-W1t: into the town Of Jeannette, In the county
OF Westmoreland. State of Pennsylvania. and
within the Western district thereof to perform
worker in the factory Of Chambers, Mckee b Co.
at said place, under certain contract and agree
Ford. previous to his becoming resident Of the
United States:
Into by and between said Chambers & Mckee
Glass Company and Charles Ford. aforesaid alien.
through hfs agents in that behalf, James A. Cham
6erS II. Sellers Mckee, James Campbell and
William siicker and Local Assembly No. 900.
Knights OF Labor tlocated at Pittsburg PAD; and
Local Assembly No. SJC4 Qocated at Sunderland.
England), both Of which assemblies are members
Of an international labor organization known as
the Universal Federation OF Window Glass
workers; and which agreement was as follows, to
That in consideration of said Charles Ford. alien
and foreigner as aforesaid. at once immigrating
TO the United States, said Chambers & Mckee
Glass Company would give him steady employ
ment as glass blower and worker at its glass fac
tory at the aforesaid Jeanette. Pa, and would
pay him the wages ordinarily paid for like services
70 members OF Local Assembly No. 800. knights
OF Labor, Aforesaid, branch of the Universal
Federation Of Glass Workers; and said Charles
Ford, in consideration Of said offer, agreed to i'm
migrate to the United States and enter into the
employment Of said Chambers Mckee Glass
Company as glass blower and worker In rs factory
at Jeannette. State Of Pennsylvanias Aforesaid;
and in pursuance of said contract and Agreement
said Charles Ford with the assistance and under
the encouragement and solicitation Of the said
Chambers q Mckee Glass Company, James A.
Chambers, II. Sellers Mckee James Ca,unhell
and William Siieker, their agents in that behalf
as aforesaid. on the 18th OF March, 1850 abandoned
his employment, family and home at SunderIand
England, and embarked on the steam vessel Iowa
for the United States. arriving at the port Of Bos-
ton, Mass, on the 18th day Of ApriL A. d. 1889
rom which point, under the encouragement ana
with the assistance OF said defendants and their
agents, ne was conveyed to Jeannette aforesaid,
sno enssreq INTO the employment OF said Cham
DeLs g mchee Glass Company in its glass works
AZ sara pace Under said contract.
wherefore, by reason of the premises. defend
anus nste Iq fnitt and are fnde6 ted to the United
states the plaintG In the aforesaid sum or 81 OO0
no part o1 which has ever been paid. 49,
ana wherefore plaintiff brings suit.
WALTER LYON,
United States Attorney.
Clerk Gamble, of the Circuit Court, viii no |
tfy the defendants who have, according to 1
law. two weeks in which to file answers to the |
bill