The star. (Aberdeen, S.D.) 1891-1898, 1894-01-18
OUTRAGEOUS INJUNCTION
Sovereign Served With an Order
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a- OF COurC.
y From the Journal Of the Knights Of Labor.
When Judge Paxton rendered his now
notorioue Homestead treason" decls.
ion. the country was astonished.
When Judges Kicks and Taft rendered
their decision in the Ann Arbor Railroad
strike case, the country was astounded.
But it remained for judge Jenkins
and Judge Caldwell, one of the United
States Circuit Court of Milwaukee and
the other of Minnesota, to out-HsrOd
Herod. pa. ,-."-....,
And it remained for Chief Justice Full
Ter OF the United States Supreme Court
to lend his assistance to render power
less the laborlng people OF this country
employed on the railroads to even do.
fend themselves against the encroach-
ment Of capital by refusing to work.
A dispatch from General Master
Workman Sovereign of the Knights Of
Labor notified the officers of the organ
ization that an Injunction from the
United States Court had been served on
him and similar Injunction was served
on Thomas B. Mcclure, G. A. French,
H. B. Martin aud James Kenny of the
General Executive Board of the Knights
of Labor. Subsequently the following
was received:
John W. Hayes, Philadelphia, Pa:
EsTIEMEp BRo1HsE This morning I was
United SLATER Marsiia5, issued 81 tie United
tapss g Circuit Su Sn,S1 Sstios
Order from participauon inany strikes Of the
use Of any influence fnthe adjustment q wag-
e or tn: regulation Of sny trades matters . on
hands of receivers. The document would put
to shame even the Car OF Russia. It places
the United States Government, With the
Pacihc RatlIosa and its officers and receivers,
as tgApE ths Working people, without rega
as 70 thenE Che ,workirg peopie's) claims or
erty in shiB couE try that will meet with uni
vessal Indignation onthe part OF all fair-mind-
e1peopae; J. II. Severe GIN,
General Master Workman.
The cause OF this extraordinary act
ton by the Courts il neither strike
nor any order issued by labor organi-
cation. tits misuse of the power of
the Court to browbeat the work people
of the country who may be employed on
a railroad that has already been wreck
ed by it's managers.
This action of the United States
Courts is the first instance of the kind
ia the history Of the country. Unlike
the Toledo and Ann Arbor injunction,
this is,issned before the strike. Briefly
the facts are these:
The receivers of the Northern Pacific
Road submitted to the employees new
scale of wages, which implied cut OF
from to Is per Cont. The employees
representatives had q conference with
Gen. Manager Kerdriek in st. Paul and
rejected the scale.
The representatives we're kept waiting
in st. Paul from December 10 until the
25th, when Manager Kendrick finally
told them no modification could be
made of the schedule. Almost at the
employees from quitting work. This
order was served on the representatives
ct the various railroad organizations to
prevent simultaneous quitting OF
work, and, like drag-net, has boon OK.
tended by Chief Justice Fuller to the
Chiefs Of the Knights of Labor.
The new scale was to 20 into effect
January l. Pending the controversy
the receivers, on Decelnbers 10, applied
for ind obtained from Judge Jenkins
of the. United States Court OF Milwau-
kee an order authorizing and directing
them to put into operation the new
schedule of wages and restraining the
employees and their Unions from ''com-
bining and conspirihg to quit with or
without notice. the services of the road
with the object of crippling or embar-
RAISING it's operation, and generally
from interfering with the officials and
agents of the receivers or their employees
IN any manner by actual violence, in
timidation, threats or otherwise
g., The Injunction was held back until
the 25th, and is an extraordinary docu-
ment. y.ft
The grounds for the issuance of the