The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-08-10
Judge Jackson's Injunction.

A complete copy of the restraining
order issued by Judge Jackson at Par
kersburg against the striking West
Virginia miners was published in yes
terday's Sun, and it's text differs ma
terially from the Heretofore published
summary of that order, upon which ad-
verse comment has been based. The
correct version shows that Judge jack
son did not in the slightest degree en-
croach upon the manifest rights of the
strikers and their sympathizers to ar
que with the men remaining at work,
in the hope of getting those men to quit
work and Join the strike: but the in
junction did restrain these prosely-
ters from trespassing on the company's s
property while engaged in their persua-
sive work. So much has already been
said about this order and so much more
is likely to be said about it in the politi-
cal and economic discussions of the
future that we feel warranted in re-
printing the document herewith, entire:
IN EQUITY.
james Sloan, jr., complainant, VS..
Eugene " Debs ct al, defendants.
"On this, the 4th day of August, 1897,
the complainant in this action, by A.
b. Fleming, his counsel, presented to the
undersigned, one of the judges of the cir
cult court of the United States for the
District of West Virginia, his bill of COM
plant alleging, among other things, that
the defendant, in conjunction with other
defendants in the bill named, We're con-
spring together to interfere with the
operating and conducting of the coal
mines operated by the Monongah Coal
and Coke company, and by such inter-
ference preventing the employees of the
Monongah Coal and Coke company from
mining and producing coal in and from
the said mines; and that unless the court
granted an immediate restraining order
preventing them from interfering with
the employees of the owners of said mines,
there was great danger of irremediable
injury, damage, and loss to the owners
of said mines.
Upon consideration whereof the bill is
ordered to be filed and process issued
thereon, and a temporary restraining or
der is allowed, restraining and inhibit-
ing the defendants and all others asso-
ciated or connected with them from in
any wise interfering with the manage
ment, operation, or conducting of said
mines by their owners or those operat-
ing them, either by menaces, threats, or
any character of intimidation used to
prevent the employees of said mines
from going to or from said mines, or
from engaging In the business of mining
in said mines. And the defendants are
further restrained from entering upon the
property of the owners of the said Mon
ongah Coal and Coke company for the
purpose of interfering with the employees
of said company, either by intimidation
or the holding of either public or pri-
vate assemblages upon said property, or
in any wise molesting, interfering with
or intimidating the employees of the said
Monongah Coal and Coke company SO as
to induce them to abandon their work I'm
said mines. And the defendants are fur
ther restrained from assembling in the
paths, approaches, and roads upon said
property leading to and from their homes
and residences to the mines, along which
the employees of the Monongah Coal and
Coke company are compelled to travel to
get to them, or in any way interfering
with the employees of said company I'm
passing to and from their work, either
by threats menaces. or intimidation: and
the defendants are further restrained
from entering the said mines and inter-
fering with the employees in their mining
operations within said mines, or assem-
bling upon said property at or near the
entrance of said mines.
1.-THE purpose and object of this re-
straining order is to prevent all unlawful
combinations and conspiracies and to re-
strain all the defendants engaged in the
promotion of such unlawful combinations
and conspiracies from entering upon the
property of the Monongah Coal ana Coke
company described In this order. and
from in any wise interfering with the
employees Of said company In their mining