The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-25
STRIKERS WIN
CASE IN COURT
Union Man Arrested While Boy
cOtting is Discharged.
IS ACQUITTED OF VAGRAECY
JUDGE sYMPATHIzES WITH MEN
IN THEIR FIGHT.
IS ACQUITTED OF VAGRAECY

THE Cooks and Walters union wor
its cause in the city court yester-
4 dav in the case Of the boycottel
arrested d few days ago, on d charge
If vazrancy, ana now they propose to
continue their fight on the unfair res
t7grants with redOubled energy and in
O. manner that they believe Will prove
more effective than the means that
have been employed.
I'm boy cotter arrested for drunken
ness was convicted and fined On that
charge but the other case was dis
missed without trial. gnd Judge Diehl
held that the union had a right to pa
frol the sidewalks in front of the UNI
fair restaurants, so long as they viO-
lated no city ordinances. TIE men,
hers Of the union feel that this is a
great victory for them and they are
accordingly jubilant over the pos
poets.
President Tyler Of the union stated
Yesterday afternoon that in the light
of Judge DiehIs decision in the va
grancy case, the union felt that they
had a perfect right TO use all means
within the Jaw TO make the unfair
restaurants come to time, and they
proposed to hold a meeting at an early
date to decide upon what action should
be taken. As soon as this meeting is
held the union employees in the unfair
restaurants viii be called out on a
strike and sentries VIII be kept patrol
ling The sidewalks in front Of the places.
warning people that they are unfair.
Will Wage War,
"Of course" said he, the men can
not stand in front Of the places. but
so long as they keep moving sc as to
prevent blockading the sidewalk, they
cannot be arrested by the police. We
propose to hire two expFsSsmen and
decorate their wagons with fiaring
signs, giving the names of the unfair
places and warning union people not
10 patrOniae them. One of these wag-
Ous will be kept driving up and down
Main street and the other Will be sent
out through the city. We expect to do
this until the restaurant people serve
an injunction against us, If they de-
eide to do that"
The prOprietOTS Of the tabOOed res
taurants are apparently not greatly
worried over the victory of the union.
They say that there are only three or
four union men now employed in their
places and q strike will cause them no
inconvenience and the advertising fur
nished by the wagons, they say, is just
what they want. They announce their
intention Of taking no steps to have
an Injunction issued against the union
unless means of fighting are adopted
by the union men which will injure
their business.
Interest in me Cases.
Seldom have simple cases of drunk
enness and vagIancy caused so much
ado in police court as the cases of the
two bOycOtters-Dan O'Donnell and
Jim COyle. The court room was filled
with those in popular phraseolOgy
termed kitchen mechanics" and the
interests Of the union men were looked
after by Attorney +. A. SiIberstein of
Denver There are no city ordinances
preventing persons from boycOrting
places. and while O'DOnneH was en-
gagged in patrolling the sidewalk in
front Of Bonds restaurant when ar
rested the officers claim that he was
simply arrested for drunkenness. -Four
officers sWOre TO his intOXicatiOn and
an equal number of COOKS and walters
SWOre he was sober. but the court
found him guilty and flied him So y
notice of appeal WAS Sven and the
union expects 10 viii tEVs case in the
end.
In Coyie's case, he was arrested while
patrolling in front of an unfair restau-
rant, and the case was purposed to be
test one as 10 wheJh2r the boycotters
could be prevented from interfering
with business houses by the vagrancy
law. Judge Diehl held that so long as
q union man violated none of the city
ordinances while patrolling place, and
Kept moving so that he did not block
ade the sidewalk, he could not be
brought into a court on charge OF
Lagrancy. and the case was dismissed.
The judge said:
u am in sympathy with the working
men and l only advise that they en-
pioy sober men to do the business they
have to be done"