The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-16
WHOLE CIFF ENJOINED.
Sweeping Nature of Waterbury Strike
Writ.


Waterbury, March Ian importan
move in relation to the trolleymen's
strike. which has been in progress
since January IL, was taken yesterday,
when Judge Elmer, of the superior
court. on application Of the Connecticut
Railway and Lighting company, grant
ed a temporary injunction restraining
the Trolleymen's union. all the other
unions i! this city and all other persons
from acts calculated to interfere with
the ccnpany's business or its employees.
l., the complaint Of the Connecticut
Railway ana Lighting company, attach
ed to the writ, an attachment to the
amount of $25, 900 is ordered placed on
the property of the defendants.
The list of the defendants begins
With William j. Barrett. president of
Union No. 1893, of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Street Railway Employees
of America, and includes all the strik-
ers and the president and secretary of
each of the following unions: Polishers
and Buffers, Brass Workers, Sheet
Metal Workers, Press Hands, Typo
graphical. Team Drivers, Masons and
! Plasterers', Iron Moulders', Drug
| Clerks, Electrical Workers, BARRIERS
Cigarmakers'. Painters and Decorators
and Carpenters and JOiners'. To sweep
; in all the strikers sympathizers, 'all
other associations and persons un-
known to the plaintiff and engaged in
acts complained Of are also cited as
defendants. The injunction is made
returnable on the first Tuesday IN
! April.
! The complaint declares that the de-
! PENDANTS have conspired together and
with other persons unknown to the
plaintiff to injure the plaintiffs bust
ness, to prevent it from employing 9TH
err persons to do it's work, to prevent
merchants from dealing with the plain
! tiff and to prevent boarding house and
lodging house keepers from furnishing
board and lodging for the company S
| employees 1t is alleged also that the
defendants have participated in, incit-
ed or encouraged rioting, and that some
persons in sympathy with or connected
with the defendants have murdered or
caused to be murdered policeman en-
gagged in the performance of his duty.
! The Injunction orders the defendants
to desist from doing any unlawful act
in the furtherance of any conspiracy to
hinder, interfere with or prevent the
plaintiff its officers and employees in
the free and unhindered conduct and
control of it's business, or to modest or
injure it's employees or property; from
interfering with the present employees
of the plaintiff and with any person
who may desire to enter the employ of
the plaintiff, by threats, intimidation
violence or any act or language tend
ing to prevent persons from entering
the employment of the plaintiff, or to
induce persons to leave the employ OF
the plaintiff.
The defendants are also prohibited
from congregating near the railroad
station and in the streets or public
squares of Waterbury, or near the
premises and tracks of the trolley COM
pany. They are ordered not to picket
the tracks or premises of the company
or to attempt to prevent persons from
riding in it's cars cruising it's electric
lights. They are ordered also not tc
threaten to boycott any persons or cor
porations who use the company's lights
ride on it's cars or deal with it's patrons
or employees.