River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-05-17
JOUR- INTERPRETERS
sweeping Injunction Issued bS n
kansas City Judge Against
strikers-In 81. Louis.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 14.-The fed
eral authorities found alleged cause fol-
interfering Saturday evening in the
strike inaugurated Saturday morning
by the union employees of the MetroPol-
itan Street Railway company. Judge
William c. Hook, of Leavenworth, Kan,
sitting in Kansas City. issued from the
United States district court an injunc-
ton hat is more absolute and sweep
ing in its terms than any injunction
ever heretofore secured in this district
in a contention between labor and cap
ital.
The injunction is predicated upon the
fact that several of the persons COM
planned against as threatening the inter-
ests of the company are residents of 9th
er states, and the further fact that the
strikers threaten to prevent the COM
pany from carrying out its contract with
the United States government to trans
port the city mail carriers TO and from
their routes.
Harry Bryan, the national organizer of
the ~Amalgamated association, described
as a resident of Michigan, is one of the
parties enioined. and the others named
are 81 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 man
ner, directly or indirectly. stopping or
interfering with the running of cars on
the lines of the Metropolitan company;
~enjoins them from harassing, assaulting
or in any manner interfering with any
person who may be in the employ of the
ompany 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
carhouses, stopping places, stations,
tracks or approaches thereto or lettering
In large numbers in or about any of the
places named, or making loud or bois-
ferrous noises in the vicinity thereof for
the purpose of intimidating or Interior
ing with the company's employees.
The injunction even goes further than
this and ~enjoins any concerted action 10
cause any act or annoyance which will
assist in stopping the operation OF the
cars or interfering in any wise with an
employe in moving a car which may car
~ a mail carrier, or a messenger. or
upon which a mail carrier or a messenger
may wish to ride.
ST. Louis, May IA mob tore up the
tracks of the California division at
Eighteenth and Papin streets Saturday
night, so that a mail car which had
passed south could not get back over
the line to the post office. When the
police arrived the damage was done.
The crowd desired to wait and see the
fun when the mail car returned. The
officers peat some of the leaders over
the head with their clubs, but a fusil-
lade of stones was the reply. Then
they drew their revolvers and fired into
the crowd, but no one was hit. 1T is
likely that the officers did not care to
wound anyone. The volley caused he
crowd to scatter hurriedly, and the
wrecking crew was sent out to repair
the damage. Wednesday the federal
grand jury will consider the complaints
that the United States mail is being in
terfered with by the strikers.