The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-14
BOYCOTT DECLARED.
Kansas City Labor Unions Take
a Hand in the Strike.

Kansas City, May 1.-THE Industrial
Council yesterday declared boycott on
all business and professional men rid
ing on the cars OF the Metropolitan
street railway company. Men have
been appointed to get the names of all
these men and report to headquarters
of the labor organizations. All union
men will be called upon then to refuse
to patronize them. A resolution was
also adopted calling on all the union
men who are directly or indirectly en-
ployed by the Metropolitan company to
quit their positions at once"
This will include electricians, firemen,
engineers, park musicians, painters of
cars, carpenters who repair the cars,
and all other men who are employed by
the Metropolitan. The order will affect
very few men, as there are few union
men in the employ Of the company, and
officials of the latter declare that they
will not be crippled by the departure
of all the union men in their employ.
A resolution was sent to congress
asking that the members use their en-
deavors to enact a law limiting the
power of the judges of the United States
federal courts in issuing injunctions."
The resolutions also asked that the
judges be hereafter elected by a direct
vote of the people. A copy of this res
olution viii be sent to the representa-
tives and senators from this state.
The meeting of the council was pack
ed to the doors, and loud speaking could
be heard outside. The resolutions were
passed unanimously. Harry Bryan, the
national secretary Of the international
organization, was in the meeting, and
addressed the council. The strike that
has been ordered on the allied trades
in the Metropolitan company'S employ
viii go into effect at once.
The resolution which declared in ia
Vor of the strikers and to whom it
pledged the support of the council
union
union labor, to refrain from riding on
the cars and in any way assisting the
company. A committee was appointed
of five each from the Industrial and the
Building Trades Councils, and from the
| Trades Assembly of Kansas City, Kas.,
to assist the strikers in all possible
manner Compatible with the law.
INJUNCTION ISSUED
The federal authorities found alleged
cause for interfering in the strike inau-
| gurated by the union employees of the
| Metropolitan street railway company.
/ Judge William c. Hook, Of Leaven-
worth, Kas-, sitting in Kansas City, is
/ sued from the United States district
| court an injunction that is more abso-
| fIte and sweeping in it's terms than any
| injunction ever before secured in this
district in a contention between labor
| and capital.
The injunction is made absolute for
week, the matter being set for a hear
/ ing on Saturday next. It is predicated
sons complained against as threatening
the interests of the company are resi-
| dents of other states, and the further
fact that the strikers threaten to pre-
vent the company from carrying out
! it's contract with the United States gov
| eminent to transport Kansas City mail
carriers to and from their routes.
Harry Bryan, the national organizer
| of the Amalgamated association, de-
| scribed as a resident of Michigan, is
one of the parties enjoined and the 9TH
| ers named are twenty-five local lead
| erS 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 man
| ner, directly or indirectly, stopping or
| interfering with the running of cars on
| the lines of the Metropolitan company;
| enjoinS them from haraSsing, assault
| ing 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 picketing or
patrolling the car houses, stopping
| places, stations, tracks or approaches
thereto or lettering 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 in
timidating or interfering with the COM
pany's employees.
The injunction even goes further and
enjoins any concerted action to cause
any act or annoyance which will assist
in stopping the operation of the cars
or interfering in any way with an en-
ploye in moving a car which may carry
a mail carrier, or a messenger, or upon
which a mail carrier or a messenger