The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-03
BAGATLING GUN ON PAPER
SWEEPING INJUNCTION ISSUED
 AGAINST THE STRIKERS.

lN Enjoins Them From Interfering With
 All Trains Carrying Maiis-whsn Mar
 shals Read it They Were Hooted and
 Hisssd st by tho Mobs.
 Chicago, July 2.-The striking railway employees within the jurisdiction of the
 United States court for this circuit,
 which includes Illinois and the greater
 portion'of Indiana and Wisconsin, are
 confronted tonight with the most
 sweeping injunction that has ever been
 Issued from federal court under simi-
 lar conditions. All last night United States Attorney Milchrist, in accordance with instructions from Washington, was
 engaged in preparing bill covering the entire situation. When completed it
 covered no less than forty pages of type 1 written legal cap. # Immediately upon their arrival in
 this city to-day Judges Wood and
 Grosscup repaired to the government
 building and the bill was submitted for
 their consideration. Edwin Walker,
 who has been commissioned as special | counsel for the government, took part in the conference. When the bill had
 been roughly reviewed he raised the ob- jection that 1t was drawn entirely upon the grounds of violation of the inter- state commerce act, whereas, according ! to his own views, interference with trains carrying the United States mails z oha f1,o col mt faQ
 The judges were inclined to take the ! same view and so the bill was returned to the lawyers for amendment. When the attorneys submitted the amend ed result of their labors 1t proved ac- ceptable and the restraining order was promptly issued. In part, 1t reads as | Follows:
 B. V. Debs, George W. Howard, L. | w. Rogers and the American Railway union; Sylvester Kileher, Lloyd Hoch- king, A. P. Pysabok, H. Elfine, James Hannah, John Mastebrook, William Smith, Edward O'Neill, Charles Nailor, John Duffy, William McMullen, E. Shelby, Fred Ketcham, John Doyle, and all other persons combining and con- spring with them, and all other per
 sons whomsoever, are enjoined abso- lutely to refrain from interfering or stopping any of the business of any of the railroads in Chicago engaged as common carriers of passengers and I freight between states and from inter fering with mail, express or other trains whether freight or passenger trains engaged in interstate com merce, or destroying the property of any of the railroads from entering F their grounds for the purpose of stop ping trains er interfering with proper {. ty; from compelling or Inducing by threats, pefsuasion or violence any of the employees of said roads to refuse or E fail to perform any of their duties as Z; employees of such road in connection \ with interstate commerce of such rail- r roads or the carrying of mails, passen gers or freight or attempting by threats Fsor intimidation any of the employees Fpof such roads engaged in interstate EAbusiness or operation of mail trains to leave the service of such roads or pre- venting any persons from entering the service of such roads.
 The order goes on at length in such wording as to prove a veritable drag net, completely covering any demon stration of violence or interference whatever with trains on the grounds that such interference would be a hin drance of United States mails and a violation of privileges granted rail roads under the interstate commerce laws. Every road entering the city and affected by the strike to total of twenty-three, is specifically named and the employees thereof specifically en- joined. Referring to the scope of the order Judge Grosscup said:
 Tt enjoins all strikers, their friends, sympathizers and those whom they way in the United States district of Northern Illinois, with the United States mails or with any interstate commerce traffic, either passenger or freight.
 "Those arrested for violation of the order will be brought before the court and required to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of court.";
 The general managers of the railroads profess to believe that the injunction < will prove to be worthy of the designa- ton given 1t by one of tn judges, "a Gatling gun on paper"
 Even personal service is not abso- lutely necessary to it's legal enforce mnt. According to the law as expound- Cd by United States Attorney Milchrist tonight the publication of the decree in a widely circulated paper.its post ing in a public place, where it. is cer- tain to be read and its contents dis seminated or the formal reading to a demonstrative crowd by deputy mar 1hal may be ruled upon as constitu- ting sufficient service to place those guilty of breach of it's provisions un- der the ban of the law. Under this in- depreciation thouands of strikers might be arrested day after day and be ar raigned and summarily dealt with for contempt of court, and this, it is re- ported, is the policy that 1t is, intended to pursue.
 If 1t Is carried out there will be no need, 1t is believed, for the employment | of either state militia or federal troops. A Goodly force of deputy marshals arm ed with power to make arbitrary ar rests, and the Knowledge on the part of | the strikers that, once within the clutch es of the law peremptory sentence to prison for contempt instead of a pre- liininary hearing, bail and a trial months hence, when the echoes of the | strike may haoe died away. will be their portion, shoul1. 50 reason the .railroad men. create such, combination of cir Scumstances, as to induce the strikers to | pause and reason before proceeding fur fhkr in their preaeht course.