The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-05-13
KANSAS CITY MEN OUT
Car Line Under a Contract to Tran
sport Mail Carriers.
ERGO, IT MUST NOT Be INTERPRETED WITH
The Matter viii be Heard Next Saturday. The
Terms of the Injunction Are Extraordn-
arily Sweeping. Measures Taken
to Enforce Them.
(By the Associated Press.

Kansas City Mo-. May 12.-The Federal
terferng this evening in the strike inar-
gurated this morning by the Union en-
plcyes of the Metropolitan Street Rail
way Company Judge William C. Hook,
of Leavenworth Kansas. sitting in Kan
sas City, issued from the United States
District Court tonight an injunction that
is more absolute and sweeping IN It's
terms than any injunction ever before
secured in this district in contention be-
tween 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 it's fight won;
for the strikers hands are tied for seven
days, and in the meantime the Metropol-
ton Company can go about the re-organi-
cation of its disrupted forces.
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
other States and the further fact that
the strikers threaten to prevent the
company from carrying out its CONTRACT
with the United States Government to
transport the city mail carriers to and
from their routes.
The injunction restraints the persons
named and all others from in any man.
ner, directly or indirectly, stopping CT
interfering with the running OF cars on
the lines of the Metropolitan Company:
enions them from harrassing. 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 apprC aches thereto, or lettering
in large numbers in or about any of the
places named, or making loud or bolster
GUS noises in the vicinity thereof for the
purpose of intimidating or interfering
with the company's employees
The Injunction even goes further than
this and enjoins any concerted action to
cause any act or any 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
carry mail carrier or messenger, or
upon which mail carrier or a mes
senger may wish to ride.
In addition to the police and the dep
uty county marshals sworn in today a
force CT United States marshals will be
On hand to interfere in case the injunc
tion is ignored and there is every posi-
bility that the strikers will not desist in
their efforts to bring out the men who
have SO far failed to join them.
The strike was ordered early today
On all the street car lines Of the Metro
nolitan Railway Company. About five
hundred of the fifteen hundred conduc-
tors, motormen, and gripmen Of this
city and Kansas City, Kansas responded.
Up to a late hour tonight there had been
no disturbance at any point and the
company maintaining a fairly eff
cient service.