Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-04-04
THE INJUNCTION STANDS
Court Decides Against the
 Striking Engineers.
DECISION NOT AS RADICAL AS FEARED

The Men May Strike but Must Not Desert
 Their Trains-Arthur Violated Federal
 Laws Ono Fine of $50 for Contempt
 The Fight Not Over Yet.
 TOLEDO, O., April 4.-Grand Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, when informed of the decision of the United States District Court in the Ann Arbor and Lake Shore cases, refused to discuss the matter.
 Its all right" he said; ''the engineers will get through somehow. l don't care to say what We will do next, because l have not given the subject moments thought"
 Other labor leaders, however, are more outspoken. They declare that the decision is the most important ever rendered, and say that if sustained it will choke to death all bodies like the engineers organization, and they regard this as a crisis involving the existence of labor organizations They say that Judge Kicks, when he first took hold of the matter, indicated that he would decide against them, but very few expected him to go as far as he did yester- day.
 However, the decision is not as radical as many believe. The decision, briefly, is that man may quit work when he shall choose, if he quits in good faith; hence, the engineers and firemen who, rather than start out of the Air Line junction yards with train consisting of Ann Arbor cars, quit the service of the Lake Shore company are not in contempt of court. The decision upholds the right of q map | to quit work when he sees fit, except that when an engineer or fireman is on run I he must complete the run and not abandon l his engine at an intermediate point; hence, | in the case of Engineer Lennon, who re- | fused to bring a train from Alexix, at ! which point he found he had an Ann Arbor car, he was adjudged guilty of con- l tempt and fined $50 and costs. The seven | other men were discharged.
 Judge Kicks said that the suit was insti l tuted by the Toledo. Ann Arbor & North l Michigan Railroad Company to compel the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail road Company the Pennsylvania Company | and other defendants to receive from it and | deliver to it freight and cars destined from | one State to another, commonly known as | Interstate freight.
 | The bill was drawn to enforce the third section of the Inter State Commerce act, l which provides:
 That it shall be unlawful for any com mon carrier subject to the provisions oi | this act to make give any undue or un- | reasonable preference or advantage to any particular person. company, firm, corpora | tion or locality, or any particular descrip
 tion of traffic in any respect whatsoever ol
 to subject any particular person, company
 firm. corporation or locality, or any partc
 ular description of traffic to any undue oI
 unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage
 in any respect whatsoever.
 After Judge Kicks decision was rend
 cred in the case of the engineers and fire
 men, he proceeded to read the decision O | fho iroIIi nP Gnl n lf
 Judge Taft, in the motion of the Ann Ar
 Dor railroad company asking n temporar!
 injunction against Chief Arthur restrain
 ing him from issuing any order which vii
 require or command any employe of any O
 the defendant railroad companies to refuse
 to receive, handle or deliver any ears O { freight in course of transportation from ) one State to another from and to the Am
 Arbor road and prohibiting him 'fron
 in any way. directly or indirectly
 endeavoring to persuade or induce an
 employees of the railway companies who's
 lines connect with the Ann Arbor, not tt 1 eX tend to the said company the same facil
 itIes for interchange of interstate traffic a'
 are extended by said companies to othe l railways"
 The decision which was written by Judg
 Taft, grants the injunction prayed for and
 declares that If the members of the Broth , I lh bo '"OlhN' pbNt't
 freight, they "become guilty of crimina
 conspiracy against their country"
 The decisions are not generally accepted . by the men as final: they do not propose t thus submit. The cases will be nppeale
 to the highest court in the lanl. It vii
 merge into politics well Such a pro
 cedule Is already being mapped out by tn leaders. To show the drift of sentiment , not even the engineer fouml guilty of con tempt will pay his fine. It will be n figh : | tn the fl niSh