The record-union., 1897-09-02

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arrives, many months after the labor
difference which caused the trouble has
been adjusted. Debs, for instance,
who was arrested and confined at the
time of the Chicago riots, could not
practically have been reached under
this law. Equity jurisdiction in Kan
sas, so far as it applies to persons, may
be said to be at an end"
Apropos is the following editorial in
the Pittsburg Post:
We are both court and jury said
Judge Stowe Yesterday in hearing the
injunction case against the miners.
1.-The preliminary injunction has been
made permanent.-Ed. Literary Di-
gest. If as a jury he finds them
guilty as Judge he viii sentence them.
The Constitution of Pennsylvania says:
Trial by jury shall be as heretofore,
and the right thereof remain inviolate.'
The Constitution of the United States
says: In all criminal prosecutions the
accused shall enjoy the right to
speedy and public trial by an impair
tial jury of the State and district
wherein the crime shall have been COM
mitted' And in another section it de-
swer for a capital crime unless on
presentment or indictment of a Grand
Jury, except in cases arising in the
land and naval forces, or in the mill
itia. when in actual service in time of
war or public danger The very excep-
tions made declare the sweep of this
great guaranty of the rights and liber-
ties of the citizen
According to press reports. Justice
Jackson of the United States Circuit
Court, West Virginia, has granted al
together nine injunctions on petition
of as many coal companies in that
State. The New York Sun gives the
following text verbatim Of eight of
these orders:
''On this, the 14th day of August, in
chambers, the complainant in this suit,
by --, it's counsel presented
to the undersigned, one of the Judges
of the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of West Vir-
ginia, its bill of complaint. alleging
among other things that the defendants
named in its said bill are about to in
terfere with the operating and conduct
ing plant and mines, and by such in
reference are about to prevent the en-
ployes of the plaintiff from mining and
producing coal in and from its mine,
and that unless the undersigned Judge
grant an immediate restraining order,
preventing them from interfering with
the employees of the said plaintiff, there
was great danger of irreparable injury
and damage and loss to the said plain
tiff, inasmuch as the defendants are
ell IN
damages in an action at law.
Upon consideration whereof it is
ordered that the plaintiffs prayer be
filed with the clerk of this court at the
city of Charleston, in the State of West
Virginia, and that process do issue
thereon; and a temporary restraining
order is hereby allowed restraining and
inhibiting the defendants, their confed-
crates, and all others associated with
them from in any manner interfering
with the plaintiffs employees now in its
employment at or upon it's premises, or
from in any manner interfering with
any person in or upon its premises who
may desire to enter its employment
hereafter by the use of threats, personal
violence. intimidation, or by any
means whatsoever calculated to intimi
date, terrorize and alarm, or place in
fear any of the employees of the plain
tiff in any manner whatsoever at or
upon its premises.
"And the said defendants and all
other persons associated with them are
hereby enjoined from undertaking by
any of the means or agencies mentioned
in the plaintiffs bill from going upon
the PLAINTIFFS land to induce or cause
any of the employees of the plaintiff to
quit or abandon work in the mines Of
the plaintiff, as set forth and described
in it's said bill. and said defendants
and their associates are hereby en-
joined from congregating in, on or
about the premises of the plaintiff for
the purpose of inducing the employees
in said mines to quit and abandon their
work in them.
"And the said defendants, their con-
federates and associates, are further
restrained from conducting or leading
any body or bodies of men up to or up
on the premises of the plaintiff for the
purpose of inducing or causing plain
tiff's employees to quit or abandon
working for the plaintiff or from in any
manner interfering with. directing, or
controlling plaintiffs employees on it's
land or from in any manner interfering
with the business of the plaintiff upon
it's land as set forth in the plaintiffs
said bill.
'And the said defendants and their
associates are hereby enjoined from
going on any part of the plaintiff s
lands and premises for the purpose of
intimidating, coercing, or endeavoring
to procure and induce the plaintiff s
employees from working in its mines and
upon its premises by any improper
threats, unlawful means, or agencies
whatsoever; and the said defendants
are further enjoined. as well as their
confederates and associates, from in
any manner interfering with the plain
tiff's employees while they may be pass
ing to and from their work in said
mines on and near plaintiffs premises.
THE plaintiff S motion for a perma-
nent injunction, now made in cham
bers. is set down for hearing at the
United States courtroom at the city of
Charleston on November 10, 1897, that