The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-08-01
MITCHELL is ENJoTNED.
President Of Mine Workers Restrain
ed by Federal Court.

60 Dy EeQeraI CourC.
Charleston. w. Va, July 31.-President
John w. Mitchell has been enjoined. A
bill in equity was filed In the Federal
Court here today by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Coal Agency Company, a New Jer-
sey corporation, which has its principal
offices in the city of New York, in which
fifty coal companies operating in the New
River fields. the Ches apeake and Ohio
Railroad Company, G. w. Purcell, w. B.
Wilson, John Mitchell, J. w. Carroll
J. A. Richards and about $50 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 with the defendant rail-
road company for the shipment of the
coal so purchased; that the coal is re-
sold by complainant under contract to
manufacturing concerns, etc., and to the
United States Government for fuel on
naval vessels: that because of q strike
which has existed since June last, the
coal companies have failed to live up to
the contracts for deliveries of coal: that
there exists secret organization known
as the U. M. NJ w. of America, of which
John Mitchell is President and w. B.
Wilson secretary, under the orders of
which the men employed in the mines
have quit work and refused to do their
duties, and in addition thereto assemble
in marches and meetings and so conduct
themselves as to intimidate employees Of
the various companies, thus preventing
them going to the work which they de-
sire to perform. and the said defendants
occupy the tenement houses of the va
rious companies and fail and refuse to
vacate them at the request Of the coal
companies.
Judge Keller issued a temporary re-
strainlng order against all of those named
in the orders and all others associating
or acting with them. from in any way
interfering with the management, opera
ton or conduct of said mines by their
owners or those operating them, either
by menace, threats or any character of
intimidation.
The defendants and all others associat-
ing with them are restrained from enter
ing upon the property of the owners of
mines and coke plants for the purpose of
interfering with the employees or by hold
ing either public or private assemblages
upon said property, or in any way modest
ing, interfering with or intimidating the
employees of the coal companies herein
mentioned, so as to induce said employees
to abandon their work. The order con-
tinues. land the defendants and others
associated with them are further re-
strained from marching and parading in
a body across. at or SO near the prop
erty of the said coal companies or either
of them or assembling in large numbers
at or near the property of said coal COM
panies defendants. or either of them. as
to intimidate any person or persons at
work or desiring to work for either of
said coal companies"
The purpose of this restraining order.
Judge Keller says, is to prevent unlawful
combinations or conspii acies, and to re-
strain all of the defendants engaged in
the promotion of such unlawful combi-
nations and conspiracies and all other
persons from entering upon the proper
ties of the coal companies named in this
order and from in any way interfering
with the employees of said coal companies
or their operations and manufacturing
coal. either within the mines or upon the
coke oven plants
The motion for a permanent injunction
is set down for hearing at Charleston
November IL. The court appears to have
taken no cognizance of the request to
have the defendant coal companies to
force the defendant individuals to vacate
the tenement houses.