The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-06

petition for a temporary injunction,
restraining 11S defendants, officers and
members of the International Boot and
Shoe Workers, and Lasters' Protective
and Cutters unions from further acts
tending to intimidate the help in shoe
shops and injuring the business of the
manufacturers. The petition was filed
by the Ara Cushman company. Con-
spiracy and boycott fare among the
charges in the bill OF complaint This
action on the part of the manufacturers
ment. The mayor is preparing to formal
ly request Governor Cleaves to call out
the militia. The bill of complaint con-
tains affidavits of conversation had by
the manufacturers with some of the de-
PENDANTS, in which statemens tending to
prove the boldest sort of conspiracy and
boycott are alleged.
The writ of injunction issued by Judge
Foster, copies of which have been served
on the 11S defendants named in the
petition, reviews the several complaints
in the petition and the closing part in
cludes the following, known as restrain
ing order: Ak
aEach and all of them, and their att
torneys and agents, and the attorneys
and agents of each of them, are strictly
enjoined and commanded by our said
court, under penalty, to absolutely deslst
and refrain from further continuing the
publication of the aforesaid notices or
other notices Of a similar tenor, and from
causing, conspiring or instigating that
the same be done; from further distrib-
uting the aforesaid circular or other cir
culars of similar tone, and from caus-
ing, conspiring and instigating that the
same be done; from endeayoring, by will
full Misrepresentation, the payment of
money, personal annoyance and abuse,
threats, Intimidation and force, or by
other unlawful means, to prevent persons
in the employment of the plaintiff from
continuing i'll such employment, and in
like manner TO prevent other persons
from entering such employment; from
hindering or interfering with this COM
plainant in any way in the lawful prose-
cution of it's said business, and from in
timidating, hindering or interfering
with any persons in the employment of
this complainant or any persons seeking
or intending to enter the employment OF
this plaintiff And from all attempts
directly or indirectly to accomplish such
objects until further order of our said
Court.
This afternoon the seven shoe firms
alton presented a petition to Judge
Foster representing that there is in
Auburn in said county of Androscoggin,
a body of men acting together by force
with intent to offer violence, to break
and resist the law of the state, and that
tumult and riot is threatened in Aus
burn, in said county, of Androscoggin.
We therefore make application to you to
issue prescript pursuant to section ",
of chapter 266, of the Public Laws of the
State of Maine for 1898, directed to some
commander of brigade regiment or
company, directing him to order his COM
mand or part thereof, to appear at a
time and place to be specified in said
prescript to aid the civil authorities in
suppressing such violence and support
ing the law"
Judge Foster decided not to call out
the militia at present-that is not until
there are further disturbances that make
it necessary.
In coming from the shops this after
noon, the Armenian shoe workers were
not molested, and the crowd did not
gather at their boarding house. Every
thing is quiet on the streets Mayor
Bolster has issued third proclamation
relative to the enforcement of the law for
blocking the streets.
In the Municipal court this afternoon
Frank McManus of Lewiston, was SEN
fenced to thirty days in jail for unlawful
assembly. The citizens committee
waited on the manufacturers association
to offer aid in effecting settlement. The
manufacturers would not yield any
points, The leaders of the shoe workers
unions consider the action of ssthe Su-
preme court a little hard on them, but
as vet have taken no formal action on
the matter. The squad of Armenian
shoe workers increased from twelve to
twenty-four today.
General Manager Tucker of the Maine
Central, has issued orders to station
agents in Lewiston and Auburn pro-
hibiting the congregation of crowds
about the stations.
Aid From Lynn Armenians.
Lynn, October 5.-The Armenian Hen
tchakist party of this city are to take
hand in the shoe strike and riot at Au-
burn, Me.
The party held a meeting and it was
decided to send M. Barsel of Chicago and
J.Vaughn of Worcester to that city to
aid the striking union men.
The general sentiment of the Armenian
colony is in favor of the union men.
The two representatives started yester-
day and they will try to persuade the
working Armenians to leave the town.
Two Schooners in Trouble.
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