The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-06-02
ANlNfAM||0U US ORDER
CIGARMAKERS' JOURNAL on JUDGE
FREEDNAN'S INJUNCTION.
Denounced an the Most Gigantic and
Monumental Attempt on the Part
of Arrogant Trust Manufacturers
to Crush Out Strike-AnOther
Good Reason Why Government by
Injunction should he Prohibited.

Since the infamous lnJunctlOn ol one
Judge Freedman Of New York. the only
effect that it has on the trade and the
people on strike was to make them
more united and more determined than
ever to insist upon their rights. Moth
Ing that the employers could have done
could have been of greater assistance
to the cause of the union and to the
benefit of the strikers than to have
their hired man issue that injunction.
The very inquity and combined injus-
tice of the action of the learned judge
in issuing the little order of the en-
ployers was so manifest and so at var
lance with the rights and liberties OF
the people that it had the effect, as
stated in the foregoing, of simply unit
ing and making them the more deter
mined than ever to stand out SOlldly
until their just demands were complied
with. This gratifying result will not
deter us, however, from denouncing the
injunction as the most gigantic and
monumental attempt on the part OF
gang of arrogant trust manufacturers,
aided and abetted by willing tool of
the law, to crush out strike, and by
ed in a free country. This injunction
was perhaps the most sweeping in its
character that has ever been issued
by any judge, although it is not much
worse than the one obtained by the
Binghamton employers IN the strike of
'90-'91, which, it will be remembered,
was taken from court to court until it
reached the court of appeals, which is
the highest in that state, and there it
was defeated. Hence we have the pre-
cedent of a decision of the highest
court in the state of New York that the
judge exceeded his authority and that
the injunction he issued in that case
was not based on good law and could
not stand the test. Despite this we
find Judge Freedman at the request of
the trust manufacturers issuing SIM
liar injunction. We believe that there
is no country in the world where any
thing like popular government is sup
posed to prevail. whether It be q repubrI
lic or y limit "a mon 81 that the peess
!, 2 y PEI
so palpabIe Il and frag ant an attemPd Vi
on the part Of one supposed to be-
clothed with little authority to rob
them Of their inherent rights by a
judge made law. In some countries
such an act would have resulted in
rioting and of popular uprising of the
people regardless of consequences. Pos
sibly that is what the trust non-union
manufacturers wanted in this case and
then the militia. The people affected,
however, by this monstrous attempt at
hot, f0 hot,
rights and went about their business
just as though Judge Freedman had
never been born or heard of and any
man or woman, official or member,
who is molested will be protected to the
fullest extent of the resources of the
International union. We do not say
this boastingly nor for the purpose of
inviting trouble, but rather to empha-
size the fact that we, knowing our
rights, will exercise them and will pro-
tect all in so doing. We denounce the
issuance of the injunction as GRIMM
al attempt on the part of the trust
manufacturers, aided and abetted by
Judge Freedman, to deliberately rob
the workers Of their undisputed rights
as free born American citizens and as
one of the most dastardly and despic-
able acts ever perpetrated in the name
of law or outside the law of this coun-
try. We have no respect for a Judge
who makes laws of this nature. Any
man judge, or just a plain monkey
judge, who will 50 far forget himself
as to lend his name to an Injunction
such as the one referred to in this
case and briefly outlined below is un-
worthy of respect or consideration and
merits the condemnation of all fair
minded men and women and all lovers
of liberty.
Judge Freedman did it with his lit
tie pen-at least he fathered the thing
much to the satisfaction of the trust
manufacturers, who are the real au-
thors. Here it is, or part of it:
In the language Of Judge Freedman's
decree the strikers are restrained from
interfering with, annoying, accosting
threatening, waylaying and following
the plaintiffs and their employees an6
from lettering around, picketing, pa
trolling and standing in and about the
street and sidewalk in front Of thu
premises, and the streets and avenue:
adjacent therto, and from lettering a
or near, picketing, patroling, waylay
ing the plaintiffs and their employees
and persons seeking employment of tn
plaintiffs, on the streets and sidewalk
in front Of, adjacent to, and at tn
houses of the plaintiffs, their employee
and workers, and from doing any &C
or thing the commission of which ha
the tendency or effect Of molesting tn
plaintiffs and their employees in tn
quiet and peaceful enjoyment of thei
business and their coming to or goin,
therefrom.
Further, pending determinatio1
" of this action, the defendants were re
Z - 80 ~>~~'~Ying any person an
picketing, patroling
3 Sout the plaintiffs
I I'm any interference
threats and insult
}and their employee
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