The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-06-14

are the defendants named in the suits
| brought by Christian and Otto Schil-
linger.
In the suits brought by Morgans there
are eight defendants, as follows: Thom-
as Mahon, Michael Mcnamara, Law
| renee Sweeney, Leo Vanston, Martin
Lawless, John Sweeney, Louis Hennans
and Arthur Bird.
Each of the defendants will be re-
quired to furnish $1,000 bail to answer
at court. In case of failure to furnish
bail they will have to go to Jail. The
sheriff has been directed to bring them
into court.
The declarations in the several cases
are substantially alike. That in the
| Morgans' cases reads as follows:
THE DECLARATION.
Plaintiff in this suit complains of the
| defendant herein, and AYERS that for a
| month previous to the seventh day of
June, 1902, there existed what is common
ly known as strike in the anthracite
region, and particularly in the county
aforesaid and the county of Luzerne, in
volving the united quitting of work, on
| day appointed. of the great majority of
| employees of the anthracite coal mines,
| and especially such employees as are mem
| bers of labor unions formed of a combina-
| ton of miners, ostensibly for their own
protection, and furtherance of their sup
posed interests. That the striking miners
| seek to control the choice, and stifle the
| free will of all employees at said mines,
and arbitrarily and irrespective of condi-
tions and consequences, violently and
| threateningly declaim against any Of their
| fellow workmen, the necessities of whom
| and their families require a continuance
of work; and in thus seeking to command
and control workmen, other than them
selves, the said striking miners resort to
various scandalous, disreputable and even
criminal methods; and in the execution of
their designs the more reckless and law
| less go so far as to hang in eftigy their
fellow workmen, who, notwithstanding
| strike, continue at work. That an eff!gy
| Is usually made of stuffed clothing or
| clothing material arranged so as to pre-
| sent ludicrous and farcical and absurd
| appearance, and popularity intended to
| represent some person as guilty of some
great crime or some knavish, wicked,
fraudulent and unscrupulouS conduct,
justly forfeiting the respect and good
opinion of all worthy citizens, and justly
the object of their scorn and contempt;
| and to hang in eff1gy is to point out and
in some way identify the particular indi-
vilual to which it is desired to direct the
| tending to subject the individual so iden-
! titled, as we'll as his wife and children,
and members of his family generally, to
personal insult, and himself to personal
assault, to boycotting-so-called to
seriously endanger his person. and even
| his life. and thus tending to bring about
a breach of peace.
FOR THIRTY YEARS.
That on the day aforesaid he was and
for more than thirty years prior thereto
had been employed by the coal depart
ment of the Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western Railroad company, and on the
day aforesaid was thus employed as a
| pump runner at the anthracite coal mines
known as the Hampton mines; that by
diligence to business he has established n
reputation for faithfulness to duty and
strict fidelity in relation to all agreements
made by him, and was known as a
steady, faithful and conscientious EN-,
ploye, which reputation is all the capital
| he has, and has enabled him to win the
favor of his employer and to work in
harmony with his own and his employers
| best interests, and nothing has occurred
to justify him to quit his employment at
| any time and under circumstances when
| his place could not be supplied with a
workman of his experience and knOwl-
edge Of the immediate duties pertaining
| to his work.
Plaintiff AYERS that on June he was
and previous to that time always had
been, reputed to be person of good fame
and credit. and had deserved and obtain
ed for himself the respect, confidence and
good opinion of all his neighbors and OF
all other persons to whom he was known
| That he is man of small means and de-
pendent on his earnings for the support
of himself and family, making it essen