Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-04-06
AGAINST STRIKERS.
Heavy Blow Dealt at the Engi-
neerg Organization
They Are Made by Judges Taft and Kicks
in the Ann Arbor Cases-InIuBetion
on chief Arthur BOycotters
Are Conspirators.
KNOCKED our.

laws Of the country by Judge Tafts.
and the temporary injunction prayed
for against Chief Arthur IN the Ann
Arbor boycott case is allowed
The decision was read in the
United States circuit court by
Judge Kicks at the same time
that he rendered his decision in
the case of the Lake Shore engineers
who, obeying the laws of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, re-
fused to handle Ann Arbor freight, as
there was a strike on that road In the
latter case the court held Engineer
James Lennon for contempt because
he had been twice ordered to move the
cars by the officials of the company
and did not do so until ordered 10 do so
by the brotherhood officers after the
boycott was raised. The seven other
men were discharged.
Judge Kicks decision in the cases of
the eight engineers and fremen
arraigned for contempt of court was
first delivered, amid breathless atten-
tion. 1t was not as radical as the
men feared. and does not assume to
compel men to work against their will
Notice of appeal was at once given by
Mr.. Hurd.
JUDGE KICKS DECISION
Judge Kicks decision in effect com
pels one railr DAD to receive freight and
passengers from another in conformity
with the interstate commerce law, and
is as follows
''rhs suit instituted by the.Ann Arbor
Railroad company to compel the Lake Shore
and other railroads to handle its business
known as interstate freight The interstate
commerce law made it mandatory upon con
Meeting railroads to receive and deliver pasSen-
gers and freight, and to afford equal facilities
for the Interchange of trafiic Corporations
can act only through their officers, agents and
servants, so that the mandatory provisions OF
the law which apply to the corporation apply
with equal force TO its officers and employees
The authority Oi the court TO issue such
der has been questioned, but It rests on welt
established principles II Is said the orders
issued III this case are without precedent.
I very ust order or rule known to equi.
~ courts was born Of some emergency to
meet some new conditions and was therefore
i'm IS time without a precedent III based on
sound principles and henehcent results follow
their enforcement, afordiug necessary relief 10
the one party without mpOsius illegal burdens
on the other new remedies and unprecedented
orders are not unwelcume aids n The cfaneel
lor 70 meet the cons 'antly varying demands for
equitable relief
AS bcreiubefore intimatcd, the duties % an
cmploye OF public corporation are such that
ne cannot always choose his own time
for quitting That ice The parties now
charged with contempt must he tried on
the facts they have been made 10 appear;
ana having fully considered them / con-
Clude that Engineers CLARK, Case, Rutgcr
and Conley, and their firemen as named quit
the service Of the Lake Shore Michigan
Southern railroad under circumstances when
they had right 10 do 50 and that they are not
therefore, IN contempt Of court because OF such
conduct ana they VIII he discharged In
f''etAns Ills c3i-.lus.on haFe treated lh.se
a.cnseg tb@ f%Iaflt os t6o raasonat,io ,la,ift
especially q. 70 the extent to which they had
eouspred 70 act eoueertedly in qaittna ef,tce
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eXt6 the-e y.esss ~ mrs .f.tt. an order ain
ho entered that tae accused aaincs Lennon,
,iand aaJa3Hel IS 41'-ty q contempt and
~. g..5 W e3ss9
ba MIA rs as-chars.5 from the rlrttar or
ders af the COURT The orders made this
ease AZ = III NE connecting roads ana their
einPlose1 %no u.'te 'oi' 5.'loea y ihe service
cerned man The eol,rt sbod saw mar tho Inv, NV.
and orders having COW been falIy Interpreted
and made public any violation thereof that may
heFeaite' oe mace WI ee dealt ~'ih 4 spirit
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CIRcr-Ir eor-R7.s npf4s,ov
After .Indere Picl,s, decision ,vas ron
dcred in the case Of the engineers and
4rann, ba nrooeodad - 81 tLo IA
clslon OF the circuit court composed
of himself aud Judge Taft, in the
motion OF the Ann Arbor company
asking temporary injunction against
| Chief Arthur restraining him from issu-
ing any order which shall require or
/ command any emDlOye of any of the