, 1900-05-17
A SWEEPING INJUNCTION.
Federal Judge ForbIds Interference with
Kansas City Street Railway.

Kansas city Street Railways.
Kansas City. May 12.-The federal
authorities found alleged cause for in
terfering this evening in the street
car strike inaugurated this morning
by the union employes.of the Metro
politan Street Railway Company.
Judge William c. Hook of Leaven-
worth. Kansas. sitting In Kansas City,
issued from the United States District
Cour tonight an injunction that is
more absolute and sweeping in its
terms than any injunction eve before
secured in this district in n contention
between labor and capital.
The injunction is made absolute for
n week, the matter being set for Il
hearing Saturday next. and If It's re
strictions shall be observed by the
strikers, the Metropolitan company has
its fight won, for the strikers hands
are tied for sever days. and in the
meantime the Metropolitan company
can go about the reorganization of its
disrupted forces.
The injunction is predicatcd upon the
fact that several of the persons com
planned against as threatening the in
terests of the company are residents
of other states, and the further fact
that the strikers threaten to prevent
the company from carrying out its con
tract with he government to transport
h city mail carriers to and from their
routes.
Harry Bryan, the national organizer
of the ~Amalgamated Association, de
scribed as n resident of Michigan, is
one of the parties enjoined, II the
others named are twenty-three 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 com
pany, e%njoins them from harassing,
assaulting, or in any inter
fering with any person who may be in
the employ of the company as he goes
TO or from his work, or as he is en-
gagged in the operation of n street car;
~enjoins union men and all others from
picketing or p%atrolling the car houses.
stopping places, stations. racks 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 interfering or intimidating
with the company's employees.
The injunction eve goes further
than this and e~njoinS any concerted
action to aus any act or annoyance
which will assist in stopping the opera
ton of the cars, or interfering in any
wise with an employe in moving n car
which may carry Il mail carrier. or II
messenger, or upon which II mail car
rier or n messenger may wish to ride.
The restrictions not only apply to
Organizer Harry Bryan and the TWEEN.
ty-two men named. but to all Others
who may be acting in concert with
them after the entering of this injunc-
ton.
In addition to the police and the
deputy county marshals sworn in to-
day. n force of United States mar
shals will he on hand to interfere in
case the injunction is ignored, and
there is every probability that the
strikers will not desist iii their efforts
to bring out the men who have so far
failed to join them.
Up to n late hour tonight there had
been no disturbance ut any point and
the company was maintaining Il fairly
efficient service.
About 800 of the 1.JOO conductors.
motormen and gripmen of this city and
Kansas City. Kansas, responded to the
order TO strike this morning. Not
enough men on any one line struck to
make any apprcciablc effect on the
running of cars on the main lines.
Many of the men not already members
of the union are joining the order.
however, since the strike leaders have
taken n stand. Beyond Misses and
cpithcts hurled ut thc men who took
out cars, the strikers did not resort TO
any disturbance during the morning
hours.
The order To strike was issued after
Il series of all night meetings of the
men, presided over by Harry Bryan,
organizer of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street Railway Employees Of
America.