The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-08-11
A SWEEPING INJUNCTION.
West Virginia Coal Operators Invoke
the Aid of the Law.

the Aid of the Law.
Parkersburg, w. Va, Aug. 5.-Upon
the application of James Sloan, Jr., of
Baltimore, stakeholder in the Monon-
gah Coke & Coal company, made by
former Gov. Fleming, his counsel,
Judge Jackson, in the United States
court on Wednesday afternoon, granted
a sweeping injunction restraining Eu-
gene V. Debs and his associates from
in any way interfering with or modest
ing the management or the conducting
of the property of the Monongah Coal
q Coke company or it's employees, either
by trespassiDg upon the property of the
company or approaching thereto or in
citing it's employees to strike or inter
fering in any manner whatever, either
by word or deed, with the company's af-
fairs. The text of the writ covers every
thing that can possibly be construed
into an infringement of rights of cor
poratlons, and practically prevents all
future agitation in the vicinity of the
Monongah mines.
Pittsburgh, Pa, Aug. Z. = Friday
evening Squire Stemmens rendered his
decision in the riot and unlawful assem-
hlage cases against President Dolan
and others. He holds Dolan, Jacob Auf-
heller, Paul Trimmer and Edward Me-
Kay in $500 bail each for the September
term of court. Bail was entered for all.
The cases against Cameron Miller. Will
liam Warner and Edward Shaw were
dismissed.
Eugene V. Debs. who addressed the
large miners meeting on the Duquesne
wharf at night, left Friday for Turtle
Creek. where he spoke in the evening.
Before leaving the city Mr.. Debs de-
nounced Judge Jackson, of West Vir-
ginia, for issuing the injunction re-
straining him from interfering in any
way with the Monongah company or its
employees. Mr.. Debs said:
This injunction restraints me from walk
ing on any of the public highways leading
to the mines of the Monongah Coal & Coax
company. 1t is most sweeping and none
other can be compared to it. The injunc-
ton annihilates the right of peaceable
semblage and effectually suppresses free
speech. If 1t is sustained. and / have no
doubt 1t will be- it sweeps away all consti-
tutional safeguards and delivens u.s. bound
hand and foot, to the corporate capital
II hold the injunction, and the judge who
issued 1t. in supreme contempt If / have
occasion to raise my voice in behalf of the
furnishing miners in Jacksons Jurisdiction,
j propose to do so, or at least make the
attempt, totally regardless of this in
famous injunction.
THE farce of the proceeding is that the
injunction is issued by judge. 1t ought
to come direct from the coal operators
and, at least, hypocrisy would not intensity
the infamy of the proceeding"
The coal company discovered a new
sort of missionary work among it's en-
ployes Friday. Wives of many of the
campers are now in the field. They
have been arriving for several days, I'M
til there are about 20 of them scattered
about through the Plum, Sandy and
Turtle Creeks settlements. The women
are from the Mcdonald. Carnegie and
Wheeling division sections and while
the men are at work do missionary
work among their wives. They have oc-
cess to the workmen's houses, but the
men are denied this. Deputies are sta
toned all along the property line with
instructions not to allow a man to pass
into the house range.
The proposed campaign against the
mine owners of Westmoreland county
and the operators of central Pennsyl-
vania which has been delayed is now an
assured fact. The strike leaders de-
cided on it definitely at a camp con-
ference Friday and a big move will
probably be made next Wednesday.
AS already constituted the plans pro-
pose a direct march through the whole
territory where mines are being oper
ated, until Clearfeld county is reached.
Camps will be left at each of the De Ar
nit mines at Canonsburg, at Bunola
and any other place where it may seem
necessary to keep the mines closed
which appears before the crusaders
leave The leaders estimate that with
what will remain behind in the camps
at least 5000 men will be kept constant
ly in the movement.
Definite orders have been issued from
Harrisburg to local officers of the ma
tional guard of Pennsylvania to hold
themselves in readiness for immediate
service This order, which arrived sew
eral days ago, is being complied with to
the letter and the day and night address
of each officer, together with the num-
Der of the nearest telephone, has been
forwarded to headquarters. However,
these officers have expressed it as their
opinion that the miners have behaved
themselves most orderly and that the
guard is not at all necessary as yet
Not Hawnii's Sponsor.
Washington, Aug. Z. = The United
States will not guarantee the carrying