The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-17
COURT INTERPRETERS.
Strikers at Kansas City Tied Up
by Writ of Injunction.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 14.-The fed
eral authorities found alleged cause for
Saturday evening in the
strike inaugurated Saturday morning
by the union employees of the Metropol-
ltan Street Railway company. Judge
William c. Hook, of Leavenworth, Kan,
sitting in Kansas City, issued from the
United States district court an injunc-
ton that 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 made absolute for
q week, the matter being set for a
hearing on Saturday next, and if it's
restrictions shall be observed by the
strikers the Metropolitan company has
Its fight won, for the strikers hands
are tied for seven days, and in the
meantime the Metropolitan company
can go about the reorganization of it's
disrupted forces.
Basis of the Injunction.
The injunction is predicated upon the fact
that several of the persons complained
against as threatening the interests 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 govern
ment to transport the city mail carriers to
and from their routes.
Harry Bryan, the national organizer of
the Amalgamated association, described as
resident of Michigan, IS one Of the par
ties enjoined, and the others named are q
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 fSOm in any manner
directly or indirectly, stopping or inter-
fering with the running of cars on the lines
of the Metropolitan company; enjoins them
from harassing, assaultinG or in any man
ner interfering with any person who may
be in the employ of the company as he goes
to or from his Wort. or as he is engaged in
the operation Of street car; enjoins union
men and all others from piClleting or pa
trolling the carhouses, stopping places, sta
tons, tracks or approaches thereto or lott
ering in large numbers in or about any of
the places named, or making loud or bots-
ferrous noises in the vicinity thereof for
the purpose of intimida ting or interfering
with the company's employees.
The injunction even goes further than
this and enjoins any concerted action to
cause any act or annoyance which will as
sist in stopping the operation of the cars
or interfering in any wise with an employee
in moving a car which may carry a mail
carrier or messenger, or upon which a
mail carrier or messenger may wish to
ride.
Strike Inaugurated.
The strike began early Saturday
morning on all the street car lines of
the Metropolitan Railway company.
About 500 of the 1900 conductors, mo-
tormen and gripmen of this city and
Kansas City, Kan, responded. No:
enough men on any one line struck to
make any appreciate effect on the run
ming of cars on the main lines, but
many men not already members of the
union are joining the order, and il
seems very likely that a general tie-up
will result. On the main lines all con-
ductors, motormen and gripmen were
sworn in as deputy marshals.
Cars All Running.
Kansas City, Mo-, May 14.-Every
street car line in this city and Kansas
City, Kan, was in full operation Sun
day, and no show of violence was Of
fered by the strikers. The injunction
of the federal court, enjoining the
union men from interfering with the
running of the cars, and the added fact
that it was Sunday, combined to have
a salutary effect upon the strikers.
Early in the day groups of strikers
gathered at the different power houses
and quietly urged the crews to 90 out.
Less than a dozen responded, however,
and the places of these men were filled
promptly. The railway officials had
had applications from twice as many
men as they could use, and to be sure
of no delay, placed half a dozen extra
crews at the terminus of each line, pay
ing them full wages, to fill the gap
that might be caused by any recruits
to the strikers ranks.
Boycott Ordered.
During the afternoon the industrial
council held an enthusiastic meeting
and adopted resolutions sympathizing
with the street car men and ordering a
boycott of the railway company. The
resolutions request the heads of the
different unions represented in the
council to instruct their members not
to ride on the cars, and urge the mem
bers of these unions working in the
company's powerhouses and shops, in
whatever capacity, to strike in sympa-
thy with the street car men. The reso-
buttons go so far as to request the
union musicians who furnish music at
the parks controlled by the company
to refuse to play for the daily concerts.
The industrial council is composed of
50 different unions outside of the build
ing trades. Each of these unions was
represented at the meeting by two dele
gates.
Appeal to Congressman.
In addition to the resolutions of SYM
pathy, the industrial council unani-
mously adopted the following appeal
to the Missouri members in congress:
"A crisis has been precipitated by organ
ICED labor by the action of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company in discharging 65
of it's employees because these men saw fit
to connect themselves with others Of their
craft; that when the empolyes attempted
TO exercise their manhood by requesting
other employees to become members the
company resorted to the United States
courts for a blanket injunction restraining
each and every one from interfering in the
matter with the men in their employ. at a
time when not a single unlawful act could
be charged up to organized labor; there
fore, we appeal to you in the name Of hu-
manity to use your best endeavors to have
congress pass an act limiting the power of