Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-07-24
AN INJUNCTION ISSUED.
Against interference With Employees of
PoCahontas CoIIieries Co.

A comprehensive injunction issued by
Judge H. G.. Mcdowell, of the United
States Court for the Western District of
Virginia prohibiting interference with the
Pocahontas Collieries Company, was filed
in the clerks office of the Federal Court
here Yesterday. The injunction was OBJ
tanned by General Rucker, of counsel in
the case, from Judge Mcdowell at his
bone III Big Stone Gap, on the 10th inst.
The required bond was exucuted here
Yesterday, and the processes issued. The
restraining order ia temporary one, and
the hearing on the questions of making it
permanent is set for September 18th, III
the United States Court at Lynchburg.
The proceedings were initiated under
the style of Castner, Curran 4 Bullltt,
complainants, VS.. Pocahontas Colieries
Company, respondents. The first named
firm, who are residents of another State,
take the output of the miles of the re-
spondents, near Pochshontas, under con-
tract.
The injunction restrains--Davis,-
Nugent and-Farley, and long list OF
other defendants named, and all who are
combined and associated with them, from
interfering with,the management, op-
Grafton or conducting of the mines of the
Pocahontas Collieries Company by their
owners or those operating them, either by
meDaces, threats or any character of in
timidation used to prevent the employees
of said mines from going to or from said
mines, or from the business Of engaging in
mining in them.
The defendants and those associated Or
combined with them are also prohibited
from entering upon the property OF the
owners of said mines in the Western Dis
trict of Virginia for the purpose Of inter
fering with the employees thereof either by
intimidation, or the holding Of public or
private assemblages upon said property,
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or in any way moldesting or interfering
with or intimldating the employees of the
company so as to induce said employees to
abandon their work in said mines.
The defendants, etc., are further re-
strained from ASSEMBLING in the paths,
approaches and roads upon the property
of said company leading to and from the
homes of miners therein employed along
which the employees are compelled tc
travel, or in any way interfering with the
employees Of said company in passing tc
and from their work, either by threats
menaces, or intimidation. The defendant:
and those associated with them are also
restrained from entering the mines Of sale
company and interfering with the EN-
ployes in their mining operations, or as
sembliDg upon said property at or near the
entrance to said mines.
The object of the order is stated to be
to prevent all unlawful combinations anC
conspiracies, aud to restrain defendant:
engaged in the promotion Of such unlaw
lul combinations and conspiracies from al
such acts as may result in the destruction
of the rights of complainants under thei
contracts.
The Norfolk & Western Railway Com
pany and the Pocahontas Collieries Com
pany are restrained from allowing permiss
ion to defendants or others to march OF
or over their rights of way in such a wa.
as to interfere with the work Of th'
mines.-Lynchburg News 10th inst.