Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-01-25
AN INJUNCTION
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I TO arrest every person crying "scab" OF
anything else at any of the drivers.
| Under these orders nearly 20 men and
| boys were corralled by the police dur
ing the day. In addition to this num-
Der several others were arrested fol
| wilfully obstructing the Brine teams.
An even stronger guard than ever was
placed about the company teams, eight
| of which We're sent out this morning
ard while the temper of the crowds on
the streets and about the freight
houses where, the teams received an6
discharged their loads was surly ant
vindictive as ever, they were kept I'M
der powerful restraint by the police.
Early, this forenoon while one of the
Brine teams was passing under
bridge near freight house No. 3 Of the
New York. New Haven G. Hartford
Railroad, the crowd showered it with
! st ones and pieces of ice. The van be-
ms covered, the driver, a negro, was
not hit. Another of the big drays hat
a rough time at the Philadelphia
steamer wharf. A new Jumper was
working with this team and the unior
men pounced upon him as soon as he
stepped off the dray. They talked with
him for q few minutes and he left the
| wagon and went with them to join the
union. He told the strikers that he die
not know the Jumpers were out; he
thought only the drivers were on strike
The teamster made shift to get his loac
alone and then started to drive out
But the drays were in a snarl which
even mounted officers had difficulty t.
dsentangle. 1t took fully half hour
to get this one dray out into the street
II was thought that there might b,
trouble at the Lowell freight shed.
when the teams went there, to LOAD
goods, this morning, but the driver:
and their Jumpers We're not interfere(
with The progress of the teams from
the office of the company across the
city through the most congesteC
streets was necessarily slow, but Their,
were no deliberate attempts to block
| the passage.
Next to the crowd that gathered
along India street, today, the most in
teresting places were the steamship
freight sheds along the docks where
| the Brine teams went to discharg'
| their goods Each team left the offic'
of the company with the usual polio
guard, and the moment the head of the
dock was reached the patromeI
formed a line across the street, being
| assisted in forming the Gordon by the
extra policemen detailed along the av
eEue. Just as soon as the team passed
the line the policemen closed up an'
no one could pass save those who coult
prove that they had real business there
The mounted policemen followed tn
| fha; aruin r1a
another detachment of patrolmen stood
guard about the team while being un-
loaded. While the freight handlers OF
the docks do not refuse to handle the
goods delivered by the Brine teams
drivers and Jumpers.
Chairman Clark of the police com
mission, said, today. regarding thu
complaint that the police had assisted
in loading and unloading Brine's wag-
Ions that the charge had not been sub
stantiated. Said he: "All the police
are supposed to do is to protect prop
erty and prevent violence. The police
received instructions today, under nc
conditions to assist teamsters in load
ing their wagons
There was no disturbance. tonight.
as the teams returned to the South
| Boston stables after completing theil
days work.
| Oscar NJ. Fox, president of the Allied
Freight Transportation Council, anc
William Hartnett, president of this
| Transfers Union, two members of the
strike committee which is in charge OF
all matters pertaining to the strike or
| behalf of the union men, resigned thei
positions on the committee, this after
noon. and the designations were &C
| Cepted. This action was due to then
| desire to avoid possible complications
arising from the fact that an injunc
ton is now pending against them. and
a wish that the committee might in NJ
way be embarrassed in it's work by the
| connections.
| The committee held conferences dur
| ing the day with the state board of ar
bitration. President Lincoln of the
| Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Collins
and also with the Philadelphia Steam
ship Co. the results of which are not
made public.
| Boston, Jan. 2i-The special feature OF
the Injunction has proven to be it's pos
sible effect on other master teamsters
One writ has been served and the objec'
| it said to be to restrain that master
| teamster from doing work taken from
the Brine Company. The deputy sheriff.
ii was reported. had writs for other mas
! ter teamsters that have taken work from
the Brine Co.
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