Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-01
MITCHELL ENDOWED.
Judge Keller Issues Sweeping Temporary Order.
CHIEF MINE WORKERS INCLUDED.
Also Fifty Coal Companies and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Bin Aimed at Unlawful
 Combinations.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Aug. l. President John Mitchell has been en- joined. A bill in equity has been filed in the federal court here by the Chess- speake and Ohio Coal Agency company, New Jersey corporation which has it's principal offices in the city of New York, in which fifty coal companies operating in the New River fields, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway com pany, G. w. Purcell, W. B. Wilson, John Mitchell, T. J. Carroll, J. A. Rich ards and about 150 members of the United Mine Workers of America are made defendants.
 The bill sets up that the complainant is engaged in selling coal and coke and has a contract for the output of the collieries which are made party de fendant and contract with the de fendant railroad company for the ship ment of the coal so purchased, that the coal is resold by complainant under contracts to manufacturing concerns, etc, and to the United States govern ment for fuel on naval vessels, that be- cause of a strike in the field embraced by the various companies mentioned, which has existed since June last, the coal companies have failed to live up to the contracts for deliveries of coal and that there exists a secret or ganizatiOn known as the United Mine Workers of America, of which John Mitchfll is president and ". B. Will son is secretary, under the orders of which the men employed in the mines
 
 have quit work and refuse to do their duties and in addition thereto assemble in marches and meetings and so con duct themselves as to intimidate en- ployees of the various companies, thus preventing them going to the work which they desire to perform, and the said defendants occupy the tenement houses of the various companies and fail and refuse to vacate them at the request of the coal companies owning them.
 The bill, which is a long one, was presented to Judge Keller yesterday, and he issued temporary order re- straining and prohibiting the defend ants G. w., Purcell, W, B. Wilson, John Mitchell and others (all of whom are named in the order) and all others associating or acting with them from in any way interfering with the man. agement, operation or conducting of said mines by the owners or those op- erating them, either by menaces, threats of any character or intimida- tion used to prevent the employees of said mines from going to or from said mines and coke plants or from en- gazing in the business of mining in said mines or laboring upon said coke plants.
 The purpose of this restraining or der Judge Keller says, is to prevent unlawful combinations or conspiracies and to restrain all of the defendants engaged in the promotion of such un- lawful combinations and conspiracies and all other persons from entering upon the properties of the coal compa- nies named in this order and from in any way interfering with the employ ees of said coal companies or either of them in their mining operations and manufacturing of coke.
 The motion for a permanent injunc- tion'is set down for hearing at Charles Ton Nov 12 1Q02