The evening Republican., 1902-08-01
MITCHELL ENJOINED.
Judge Keller Issues Sweeping
Temporary Order.
CHIEF MYE WORKERS INCLUDED.
Also Fifty Coal Companies and tho
90 Chesapeake ana Ohio Railway.
Bill Aimed at Unlawful
COmbi lions.

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 Chesa-
peake and Ohio Coal Agency company,
a New Jersey corporation which has its
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. r. Wilson,
John Mitchell, I. J. Carroll, J. A. Rich
ards and about 100 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 contract for the output of the
collieres which are made n party de-
PENDANT and contract with the de-
PENDANT railroad company for the ship
mcnt 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 strike in the field embraced
by the various companies mentioned,
which las existed since June last,
the coal companies have failed to live
up to the contracts for deliveries Of
coal and that there exists secret or
ganization known as the United Mine
Workers of America, of which John
Mitchell Is president and w. b. Will
son is secretary, under the orders of
which the men employed in the mines
who are members of this organization
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-.
ployces 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 long one, was
presented to Judge Keller yesterday,
and he issued Il temporary order re-
stranlnG and prohibiting the defend
ants, &. W. Purcell. W. b. Wilson,
John Mitchell and others TALL of whom
are named in the ordcr and all others
aSSocintu" or acting with them from
in any way interfering with the MAN.
agcment. operation or conducting of
said mines by the owners or those op-
erhing them, either by menaccs,
threats of any character or ntimida-
ton used to prevent the employees of
said mines from going to or from said
mites and coke plants or from en-
saSinG IN the business of mining in
said mines or lahoring 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 I'LL
lawful combinations and conspiracics
and all other persons from entering
upon the properties of the coal compa-
MES named in this order and from in
any way interfering with the employ
ces of said coal companies or either of
them in their mining operations and
manufacturing of coke. either within
the mines or upon the coke oven plants,
or from passing from their homes to
their mines and coke oven plants or
from the mines and coke oven plants
to their homes and FROM in any man.
ncr nnl&wfully melting persons who
are engaged in working in the said
mines or the said coke oven plants to
cease work therein and from unlaw-
fully preventing persons who desire
to work in said mines or upon said
coke oven plants entering into such
services for the said defendant coal
companies and <om in any way aid
ing and abetting such acts as may re-
suit in til" violation and destruction OF
the rights of the complainant under its
C0r&rArts as rccitpd in the bill.
The motion for Il permanent injunc-
ton is set down for hearing at Charles
ton Nov. Is, 1900.