The representative., 1900-05-17

ZION Dy Albert MarauSer, or the advisory
board Of Cigarmakers' union and an ac-
tive leader In the present strike. He
said Friday that, by the advice of his
counsel, the strike benefits would con-
tinue to be paid in spite of the injunc-
tion.
ONLY A TEMPORARY NATTER.
The injunction is temporary one. it
is granted on the petition OF Sigismond
Levy, George r. Seward and Eugene
Levy, composing the firm of S. Levy &
Co., against Nathan Rosenstein individ-
ually and as president of local union No.
LA of the Cigarmakers' Intional Union
OF America; the members of the Joint
advisory board of the union; George w.
Perkins, president of the Cigarmakers'
International Union of America, and
others, individual strikers.
The injunction is, in part, as follows:
t@"It is ordered that the defendants
are hereby enjoined and restrained until
the final determination of this action
from interfering with, annoying, accost-
ing, threatening, waylaying and follow
ing the plaintiffs and their employees,
hands and workers, and from lettering
around, about, picketing, patrol1ing and
standing In and about the street and side
walk in front Of the premises, Nos.
423 and 425 East Sixty-third street,
borough OF Manhattan. and the streets
and avenues adjacent thereto and from
lettering at and near, picketing, patrol
ling, waylaying the plaintiffs and their
and any of their employees, hands and
workers and persons seeking employ
ment of the plaintiffs on the streets and
sidewalks in front of, adjacent to and
at the houses of the plaintiffs, their en-
ployes, hands and workers, and from do
ing any act or thing, the commission of
which has the tendency or effect of mo-
testing the plaintiffs and their employees
in the quiet and peaceful enjoyment of
their business and their coming to and
going therefrOm.
THE PITH OF THE INJUNCTION.
ut is further ordered that the de-
PENDANTS each and all of them, and their
and each of their and all the attorneys,
agents and servants of each of them, be
and they are hereby enjoined and re-
strained until the final determination of
this action from ordering, directing,
planning and knowingly permitting
picketing, patrolling and lettering about
the plaintiffs aforesaid premises, and
from paying any persons any SUM of
money for picketing. patrolling and lott
ering about the plaintiffs premises, and
from any interference with, annoyance,
threats and insults to the plaintiffs and
their employees and workers and persons
seeking work In the plaintiffs factory,
whether in the streets or on the side
walks adjacent to said factory, or in any
other place, and from paying, or offering
or promising to pay to any former en-
ploye Of the plaintiffs, any sum of money
for the purpose Of inducing such person
or persons to refuse to enter plaintiffs
employment; and from paying and
promising to pay to any former employe
of the plaintiff any sum of money for
the purpose of continuing organized,
concerted and combined action on the
part OF said former employees of plain
tiffs, with the object and purpose of
interfering with and preventing the
plaintiffs from carrying on their busi-
ness"
It Is also ordered that the defendants
show cause on May Z, in the supreme
court, why the Injunction should not
be made permanent
FIRST TIME OF APPLICATION.
From the lawyers standpoint this in
junction is also of great interest, as it
Is the first time court order has been
issued forbidding the payment Of money
by q union to further the purposes of a
strike
G.. J. Shearn, of Einstein & Townsend,
attorneys for the plaintiffs, said that he
did not wish to discuss the legal aspect
Of the matter outside Of the court room,
but gave the following information:
Similar injunctions have been signed
in other states, though this is the first
one in New York.
There is very peculiar condition of
affairs in the conduct of this strike.
!. II understand that the employees of S.
Levy & Co. were not and are not men,
bers Of the Cigarmakers union. It was
after they had begun their strike for