The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1897-04-17
To- TEST A BOYCOTT
The MOngOliaus Appeal 10 The Courts
for Assistance.
BUTTE UNIONS DEFENDANTS
A Case of National importance
Judge Knowles issues a Tenn
porary Restraining order-Sec-
retary Sherman Interviewed.
pccial Dispatch TO thc standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena. April l6.-Judge Knowles in
Ihp United States district court to-day
IN suit that promises To he uf interna-
hnnal Importance. II was suit by the
Chinese residents of Butte against the
officers of a labor unions of Butte to
Ustrain them from continuing boy
outt now being enforced against the
Chinese residents there. There are four
plaintiffs who appeal for the rights of
40 of their fellow countrymen. The
unions mentioned in the Voluminous
complaint are the Mouldcrs. the Mill
wrights and Pattern Makers, the Bar
bcrs. W. II. Morley assembly, Pioneer
assembly and Meaderville assembly NJ
the knights Of Labor, the Cooks and
Walters. the brotherhood of switch
men. the Amalgamated Association Of
Engineers, the Workingmen's union,
the Carpenters. the Plumbers and Gas
Filters, the Tailors. the Bricklaycrs and
Stonemasons the Brewers, Bakers, Mill
and Smeltermen, Blacksmiths. Painters
and Decorators. the Tin and Sheet Iron
Workers and butchers. and the Musi-
clans Protective union. The plaintiffs
arr Hun Fayf Dear Wick. Hun Tong
and Huie Pock. who do business In
BUTTE as dealers In Chinese merchandise
and in conducting a restaurant
The persons named as the defendants
In the complaint are Frank Baldwin.
Griffith T.. Taylor, George Morehart,
George Il. Walters. T. H. Burnes. I'D
Marchand, II. G. Morgan. NJ. J, Geiger.
Louis Schafer. Harry Lagalla. Charles
taay;on. j. ". Huffman. George w.
Morgan, Frank L. Weldon. Fred What
ley. Albin A. Sandalhs. Robert T.. Tay-
Dr, j. II. Free. W. X. Martin. W. II.
Eddy and John Doe and Richard Roe.
Nhnsc real names are not known.
The boycott has been ON In Butte for
some time past. and OF late the unions
have been distributing circulars. carry
Ing transparenCies and stationing men
before the doors of the defendants To
warn intending customers that they en-
ter at the peril OF also being made sub
jeCt To the boycott. The hill of COM
plant also says that the unions hired
spies" have followed the Chinese Ia
The homes of their customers that they
might by force and arms" compel the
latter to dcsist from their patronage.
The plaintiffs claim that their pecu-
MARY damage has been So. 900. and that
tn recover II In an ordinary court of
law would he impossible. owing to the
multifarious lawsuits that II would en-
tail and to the state of the public mind
In Silver Bow county So that they could
not hope To get justice. while IL the
present condition Of affairs continues,
damage in the future will be irrepara
BILE.
Judge Knowles cited the defendants )
To- appear before him on May 10. and
made the temporary restraining order
in the meantime. hy which they are di-
rected not to carry defamatory banners
through the streets of Butte. not Ia al
wise persons against Trading with the
Chinese. nor To threaten amy person in
trndng tu become a patron uf the Chit
nrse If that city" The restraining or
der II directed against the defendants
their associates. agents. servants
clerks. workmen and others. covering
all in its scope that was desired by tn,
complainants.
The suit was Instituted by ox-rnited
States Senator Wilbur +. Sanders. II
has an effect broader than the applica-
ton upon its face, While in Washing
ton recently Colonel Sanders called up
on Secretary Sherman and talked III,
subject over. and II is claimed that h,
arrived at an understanding In gen
eral way of which the present action Is
part. Secretary Sherman and tn,
representatives Of the Chinese govern
mcui have had the same question under
consideration for some time. There ar,
hoycotts against Chinese in variou.
PARTS of the United States particularly
Ia the West. hut the one In Butte Is
alleged to be particularly aggravated
The Rutte Chinese are said To have re-
CciVed assurances Of financial assist
ance from the outside, and The case he,
gun here viii he pushed to the court oi
last resort,