Omaha daily bee., 1902-08-01
COURT ENJOINS MITCHELL
President Of Nine Worker Unisn Must Not
o Interfere with Employees.
MUST STAY AWAY FROM THE MINES
strikers Are Also Prohibited from
ParadinE in = BOdy Near the
Properties of the Coal
Companies.

CHARLESTON, ". Va, July s1.-Jobn
Mitchell, president Of the United Mine
Workers, has been enjoined. A bill In
equity was fled in the federal court here
today by the Chesapeake and Ohio Coal
Agency company. a New Jersey. corpora
tion, which has its principal ofices in
the city Of New York, in which fifty coal
companies operating in the new river field
the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, @. w.
Purcell, w. b. Purcell, John Mitchell, J.
w. Carroll, J. A. Richards and about $50
members Of the United Mine Workers Of
America, are made defendants.
The bill set up that the complainant is
engaged in selling coal and coke and has
O. contract for the output Of the eollieries
made a party defendant and a. contract
with the defendant railroad company for
the shipment Of the coal so purchased;
that the coal is resold by complainant
under contracts to manufacturing con-
Germs. etc, and to the United States gov
eminent for fuel on naval vessels; that
because of a strike in the field embraced
by the various companies mentioned, which
has existed since June 7 last, the coal COM
panies have failed to live up to the con-
tracts for delivery of coal; that there ex-
lists q secret organization known as the
United Mine Workers OF America, Of which
o 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 duty, and In
addition thereto assemble in marches and
meetings and so conduct themselves as to
intimidate employees OF the various COM
panies. thus preventing them from going
m UarE uhfnh thou Aautra - nar4owpn.
that the said defendants occupy the tene-
ment houses Of the various companies and
fail and refuse to vacate them at the re-
quest Of the coal companies owning them.
Bill is Lengthy One.
The bill, which Is a very lengthy one,
was presented to Judge Keller today and
he made an order that a temporary re-
straining order is allowed, restraining and
prohibiting the defendants, @. w. Purcell,
w. B. Purcell, John Mitchell, ]. W. Car
roll, J. A. Richards and others (all OF
whom are named In the order), and all
others associating or acting with them
from in any way interfering with the man
agement, operation or conducting OF the
mines by the owners or those operating
them, either by menaces, threats or any
character Of intimidation used to prevent
the employees OF the mines from going to
or from he mines and coke plants, or
from engaging in the business Of mining
in the mines or laboring upon the coke
plants.
The defendants and all others associated
with them are restrained from entering
upon the property Of the owners OF the
miners and coke plants. or in any way mo-
testing, interfering or intimidating the en-
ployes Of the coal companies mentioned, so
as to induce employees to abandon their
work in the mines, or to prevent any per.
son who may desire to enter the employ
ment Of coal companies or to work in the
mines or upon said coke yards. 80.
The defendants are further restrained
from marching and parading in a body
across, at. or so near to the property OF
the coal companies, or assembling in large
numbers at or so near the property OF
the coal companies as to intimidate any
person or persons at work or desiring to
work.
The motion for a permanent injunction
is set down for hearing at Charleston No
vember IS, 1902. The court appears tc
have taken no cognizance Of the request
to have the defendant coal companies force
the defendant individuals to vacate the
tenement houses.