The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-12-28
BY JUDGE JENKINS.

a Restraining Order Civ en- Ont at MIL
waukee.
MILwAUKEE, Dec. 27.--A conflict is
ON between the receivers of the North
ern Pacific railroad and its employees,
including all the engineers, conductors,
firemen, trainmen, switchmen and 9TH
ers. The new schedule of wages
adopted by the receivers, which implies
cut of 0 to 10 per cent in the en-
ployes' pay, was rejected by the en-
ployes' representatives at conference
held in st. Paul with General Manager
Kendrick, and the prospects are that ON
Jan. /, when the new schedule is to go
into effect, 1880 men, employed all
along the road, viii quit work. This
outcome of the controversy was foreseen
by the receivers, for as early as Dec. 10
they applied for and obtained from
Judge Jenkins, of the United States
court OF this city, an order authorizing
and directing them to put into opera
tion
The New Schedule OF Wages.
and restraining the employees and their
unions from combining and conspiring
to quit with or without notice the serv-
ice of the road with the object of Grip
pling or embarrassing its operation, and
generally from interfering with the Off
GERS and agents of the receivers or their
employees i'm any manner by actual vio-
lence, intimidation, threats or other
wise"
This injunction was held back until
Tuesday, the receivers having expected
TO arrive at an alnicable agreement.
When they found such an agreement inn
possible, they telegraphed to their agents
and attorneys all along the line to have
the injunction served by the United
States marshals on proper men, and to
make the injunction generally known.
An Extraordinsry Document.
The order Of the court restraining the
employees of the Northern Pacific from
combining and conspiring to quit the
service of the road, is an extraordinary
document. It Is the first order of its
kind, it Is said, ever issued in the United
States. A somewhat similar injunction
was issued by United States court in
Michigan during the strike Of the
Toledo and Ann Arbor employees, but
that injunction was issued after the
strike was in progress. The grounds
for the issuance of the present injunc-
tion are set forth In long petition of
the receivers, which was filed Dec. 1S.
It appears from the petition that two
days after their appointment (Aug. ~
the receivers, finding the affairs of the
road In i . M e
A DeplorAble Condition.
ordered q reduction of salaries varying
from 10 to 90 per cent OF all officials and
employees whose pay per annum exceeded
$1,000. That reduction went into effect
St once and was cheerfully accepted.
Abnut o week afterwards (Aug. 25) the
redEvers ordered d reduction Of 5 per
c@ik on I'll wages running from $50 To
$75 and 81 10 per cent On wages averag-
ing from 975 to 500 per month. This
order Of the receivers did not 90 into
eject " once. They, concluded ID IN
vestigate and revise the entire system of
wages and the different schedule Of pay,
the task being imposed on the general
J661411trs AZ j t4tiflg of tlis receivers
on Oct. % retolutions were adopted ab-
rogating tbs old schedules Of pay, d.
fecting the ~<neral manager to prepare
new sches *ar the ereirleers. train
men md teaes- ~ss. and ordering 4
reduction of the wages of tue other men
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