Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-07-05

be reached within "a hours from mid
night.
This is the opinion confidently ex-
pressed at the headquarters of the rail-
road managers late tonight. 1t is like
wise the first expression emanating from
the managers end since the beginning
of hostilities with which the representa-
tives of the strikers agree. Both cle-
ments are sanguine that the beginning
Of The end will be in sight before sun
down Tuesday.
AS to the means by which this desir-
able contamination is to be attained,
however, there is radical difference of
opinion. The general managers profess
to believe that the extraordinary in
junction issued to-day by Judges Woods
and Grosscup will prove worthy of the
epigrammatical namo given it by mem
bers OF the judiciary-"a Calling gun
on paper"
A DRAG NET OF LAW.
II is a veritable drag net of law-one
Of those peculiar Instruments that
Furnishes an individual for doing Ger.
tain thing, and is equally merciless if
he does not do it, so il Is difficult to
understand how the strikers can main
tain their present policy and at the
same time evade its operation or escape
Its influence.
Even personal service is not abso-
lutely necessary to its legal enforce
ment According to law, as expounded
by United States District Attorney Mil
christ, the publication of the decree in
widely-ciTculated paper, its posting in
public place, or the formal reading to
demonstratiye crowd by deputy mar
shal, may be ruled as constituting sufli
cient service to place those guilty of
breach Of its provisions under the ban
of the law.
MAY SEIZE HUNDREDS OF STRIKERS.
Under this Interpretation thousands
of strikers might be arrested day after
day and be arraigned and summarily
dealt with for contempt Of court This
is precisely the policy, according to re-
ports at the Government Building, that
it isintended to pursue. If it is carried
out there will be no need, so it is be-
lieyed, for the employment either of
State militia or Federal troops.
With goodly force of deputy
marshals, armed with power to make
arbitrary arrests, and with the strikers
understanding that, once within the
clutches of the law, n peremptory
sentence to prison for contempt instead
of a preliminary hearing, bail and final
trial months hence, the railroad man
ayers reason that the strike will be
brought 10 summary end.
STRIKERS DENoUNcE THE COURTS.
But the strikers reason differently. Al
their headquarters the interference of
the Federal court was denounced in
vigorous language by one and all of the
thousands of railroad men that passed in
and ont, and the most intelligent de-
clared that the far-reaching and drag
net character OF the injunction would
tend to defeat the ends desired.
Instead Of inducing men to return to
work, il was commended, ii would result
in driving out thousands of members of
railroad organizations, not affiliated
with the union, simply bzcause they
would not tolerate the cracking over the
shoulders of their fellows of govern
ment whip, that some day or other,
under similar circumstances, might be
used as lash against themselves.
The opinion WAS confidently eX-
pressed in the strikers camp that the
engineers and firemen Of every road
that attempted to resume operations by
virtue of the injunction would imme-
diately leave their posts, and that, con.
sequently, the last state of such roads
would be worse than the first
II was moreover asserted that il
needed only the request of officers OF
the union to bring out every man,
woman and child in Chicago identified
with organized labor, in accordance
with the resolutions adopted at yester.
days meeting of the Federated Trades
SWEEPING INJUNCTION.
The Federal injunction is undoubt-
eddy the most sweeping ever issued
from Federal court under similar con
diuons. All last night United States
District Attorney Milchrist was busily
preparing bill, which, when completed
covered 40 pages of typewriter lega
cap, After being amended according to
suggestions of Judges Wood and Gross
cup, it was accepted and issued.
In part it enjoins Debs, Howard, the
American Railway Union and all Others
"to refrain from interfering or stopping
any of the business of any of the rail
roads in Chicago engaged as common
carriers of passengers and freight be
tween States, and from interfering witt
mail, express or other trains, whethe
freight or passenger engaged in inter
state commerce, nr destroying the prop
erty of any of the railroads, from enter
ing their grounds for the purpose o
stopping trains or interfering with prop
erty."
1t also forbids them compelling o
inducing by threats, persuasion or vic
lence any of the employees of said road
to refuse or fail to perform any of thei
duties as employees of such road in con
nection with interstate commerce @
such railroads or the carrying of mails
passengers or freight, or attempting I
induce by threats or intimidation any q
the employees of such road engaged i
interstate business or operation of ma
trains, to leave the service OF such road
or preventing any persons from entel
ing the service OF such roads"
EVERY POSSIBLE CASE COVERED.
Every road entering the city and al
!, fected by the strike, to total of 20,
specifically named and the employe
thereof are specifically enjoined. RI
ferring to the scope OF the order, JUDI
Grosscup said:
at enjoins all strikers, their friend
sympathizers and those whom they ma
incite, from interfering in any way.
the United States court district (
Northern Illinois with the United Stat
mails or with any interstate commerce
traffic, either passenger or freight The!
arrested for violation of the order wi
be brought before the court and r
M ouired to show cause why they shou
4 I not DO punished for contempt OF court
az STRIKERS CAUGHT THE MARSHAL.
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