The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-13
ANOTHER LABOR INJUNCTION.
SWEEPING COURT ORDER ISSUED
AGAINST STRIKERS.

striking Street Car Men in Kansas
City Ordered by the United States
Court Not to Interfere in Any Way
with the Car Lines-The Injune-
tion Is Bnsed ON the Fact That the
Lines Handle United states Mail.
Deputies Sworn in.
Kansas CITY, May l2.-The federal au-
thorities found alleged cause for inter
vening this evening in the strike inaugu-
rated this morning by the union employees
of the Metropolitan Street Railway Conf
pany.
Judge William C. Hook of Leavenworth,
Kau., sitting in Kansas City, issued from
the United States District Court tonight,
an injunction that Is more absolute aud
sweeping in its terms than any injunction
ever before secured in this district in a
contention between labor and capital.
The injunction Is made absolute for a
week, the matter being set for a hearing
on Saturday next, 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 Metropoh-
tan Company can so about the reorganIza-
ton of its disrupted forces.
The injunction is predicated upon the
fact that several of the persons complain
ed against as threatening the interests
of the company are residents of other
states, and the further fact that the strik-
ers threaten to prevent the company from
..yfNA . INIT "a
States government to transport the city
mail carriers to and from their routes.
Sweeping in It's Effect.
The injunction restrains the persons
named and all others from In any manner,
directly or indirectly. stopping or interfer-
ing with the running of cars ON the lines
Of the Metropolitan company; enjoining
them from harassing, 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 a street car;
enjoins union men and all others from
plcketlng or patroling the car houses,
stopping places, stations tracks, or APP
proaches thereto, or lettering in large num-
bers in or about any OF the places named,
or making loud or boisterous noises In the
vicinity thereof for the purpose of intim-
idatlng or interfering with the company s
employees.
The injunction even goes further than
this and enjoins any concerted action to
cause any act or annoyance which will
assist in stopping the operation of the
cars, or interfering in anywise with an
efnpioye in moving a car which may car
~ mail carrier, or a messenger, or upon
which a mail carrier or a messenger may
wish to ride.
Deputy Marshnls Sworn in.
In addition to the police and the deputy
county marshals sworn in to-day, force
OF United States marshals will be on hand
to interfere in case the Injunction Is ig-
nored and there is every possibility that
the strikers will not desist in ther efforts
to bring out the men who have so far
failed 20 join them.
The strike was ordered early to-day on
all the street car lines of the Metropolitan
Railway Company About 5c0 of the 1850
conductors, motorfnen ard griPmen of this
city and Kansas City, Kan, responded.
Up to a late hour tonight there had
been no disturbance al any point, and
the company was maintaining fairly ef-
1ioient service.