Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-07-05
DEKOUNCE The ORDER
A. R. U. Men Angry at Fed
eral Interference.

CHICAGO, July 3.-The critical point in
the railroad strike will be reached within
20 hours. That was the opinion conf
IDENTIFY expressed at the headquarters of the
railroad managers at late hour last
night 1t is likewise the first expression
emanating from the. managers end since
the commencement of hostilities with
which the representatives of the strikers
are In complete accord. Both elements
are sanguine that the beginning of the end
VIII be in sight before sundown to-day
AS to the means by which this desirable
consummation is to be attained, however,
there Is radical difference of opinion
Inc general managers profess to believe
that the extraordinary injunction issued
by Judges Woods and Grosscup will prove
to be worthy of the terse yet epigrammat-
ical designation given it by ths members
of the federal judiciary first named, "a
gatling gun on paper"
a veritable drag-net in the matter of
legal verbiage; one OF those peculiar in
struments that Furnishes an individual for
doing certain thing and is equally merci-
less il he does not do it So so it is ifiicult to
understand how strikers can maintain their
present policy and at the same time eyade
its operation or escape its influence Even
personal service is not an absolute neces-
sity to its legal enforcement According
to the law as expended by United States
District Attorney Milchrist last night, the
publication of the decree in a widely circu-
lated paper, its posting in public place
where it is certain to be read and its con
tents disseminated; or the formal reading
to denonstrative crowd by deputy
marshall may be ru led upon as constituting
urtfl fli,,iar b., L
breach of its provisions under the ban of
the law Under this Interpretation thous-
ands of strikers might be arrested day
after day and be arraign9d and sumnarily
dealt with for contempt of court, AMI this
is precisely the policy, according tos the
reports at the government building list
night that it is intended to pursue.
If it is carried out there will be no
need, so it is believed, for the en-
ployment either of state militia or federal
troops. A goodly force of deputy marshals
armed with power to make arbitrary ar
rests and with the knowle lge on tine part
of the strikers that, once within the
clutches of the law, peremptory sentence
to prison for codtempt instead of prelim-
mary hearing, bail, and final trial
months hence, when,t the echoes OF the strike
may have died away, will be their portion,
should, so reason the railroad managers,
create such combination of circums5uuces
as to induce the strikers to pause ami rea-
son before proceeding farther in tleir pres
ent course.
But the strikers themSelv es reason diff
ferently. At their headquarters last even
ing the interference of the federal court
was denounced in vigorous language by
one and all of the hundreds ii not thous-
ands OF railroad men that passed in and
out, and the most intelligent of the num-
Der voiced the general sentiment in the
declaration that the faI-reachins and drag
net character of the injunction would tend
towards defeating the very ends to
which it was directed. Instead of
inducing men to return to work, so It
was conte nded, it would result in driving
out thousands of members OF railroad or
ganizations not affiliated with the union
or apparently in sympathy with its pres
ent operations, simply because these men
would not tolerate tha cracking over the
shoulders of their fellows of government
whip that some day or other, under SINH
lar circumstances, might be used as Il lash
for their own shoulders.
The opinion was confidently expressed in
the strikers camp last night that tn engi-
neers and firemen of every road that at
tempted to resume operation by virtue Of
the injunction would Immediately leave
their posts and that citizens that Cook
county can produce, armed to the teeth
and wearing the insignia of state or ma
tional authority are subject to orders
and will doubtless be brought into
service to-day. Lights were burning
In the windows of the government and
county buildings alike at midnight and
the authorities We're prepared for any
emergency.
Situation Mt Denver.