The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-05-18
Kansas Federal Judge Issues
Absolute Injunction.
PROTECTS STREET CAR PEOPLE
Striking Workmen Are Forbidden
to Interfere With Running Of
Cars III Kansas City.

Inc Iederal authorities found alleged
case for interfering in the strike in
ausurated Saturday morning by the
union employees of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company in Kansas
City.
Judge William @. Hook, of Leaven-
worth, Kansas, sitting in Kansas City,
issued from the United States district
circuit court an Injunction that is
more absolute and sweeping in its
terms than any injunction ever before
secJTed in the district in a contention
between labor and capital.
The injunction is made absolute for
a week, the matter being set for a
hearing Saturday, the 10th, and if its
restrictions shall be observed by the
strikers the Metropolitan company has
its fight won, for the strikers hands
are tied for seven days, and in the
meantime the Metropolitan company
caG4 go about the organization Of its
disrupted forces.
The INDUCTION is predicated upon
the fact that several of the persons
complained against as threatening the
interests of the company are residents
of other states, and the further fact
that the strikers threaten to prevent
the company from carrying out its con-
tract with the United States govern
ment to transport the city mail carriers
to-and from their routes.
barry Bryan, the national organizer
of the Amalgamated Association, de-
scribed as resident of Michigan, is
one of the parties enioined, and the
others named are twenty-five local
leaders of the union, several of whom
are mentioned as residents of Ohio
and Kansas.
The injunction restraints the persons
named and all others from in any
manner, directly or indirectly, stop
ping or interfering with the running
of cers on the lines of the Metropoli-
tanGompany; enioins them from har-
RAISING, assaulting or in any manner
interfering with any person who may
be in the employ of the company as
he goes to or from his work or as he
is engaged in the operation of street
car; enjoins union men and all others
from picketing or patrolling the car
houses, stopping places, stations,
tracks, or approaches thereto, or lott
ering in large numbers in or about any
of the places named, or making loud
or boisterous noises in the vicinity
thereof for the purpose of intimidating
or interfering with the company's en-
ployees.
The injunction even goes further
than this and enjoins any concerted
action to cause any act or annoyance
which will assist in stopping the opera
ton of the cars, or interfering in any
wise with an employee in moving a car
which may carry mail carrier, or a
messenger, or upon which mail car.
rier or a messenger may wish to ride.
The restrictions not only apply to
Organizer Harry Bryan and the twenty
two men named, but to all others who
may be acting in concert with them
after the entering of this injunction.
In addition to the police and the
depUty marshals sworn in, force Of
United States marshals will be on hand
to interfere in case the injunction is
ignored, and there is every probability
the strikers will now desist in their
efforts to bring out the men who have
so far jailed to join them.
SUNDAY CARS RUNNING.
Every street car line in Kansas City.
Mo-, and Kansas City, Kan, was il
full operation Sunday and no show o.
violence was offered by the strikers.
The injunction of the federal court
enioining the union men from inter
fering with the running of the cars
and the added fact that it was Sunday
combined to have sslutary effect OF
the strikers. Early in the day groups
of strikers gathered at the differen
power houses and quietly urged tb'
crews to join the strike. Less than
dozSa responded, however, and tn
places of these men were prompt.
filled.
Railroad officials had application
from twice as many men as they coul'
use, and to be sure of no delay place,
half dozen extra crews at the termi
nus of each line, paying them ful
wages, to fill the gap that might b
caused by any recruits to the strikers
ranks.
r RuhOnic Plague at SYDNEY.