The Penn's Grove record., 1903-03-20
A SWEEPING STRIKE WRIT
The Boycott Forbidden BY a Judge
at Waterbury, Conn.
PROVISIONS OF THE INDUCTION

All the Unions In hi City and the SYM
pathixers With the Trolley Men Are
Enjoined From i'll Any Way Attempt
ing to Injuis the Bustness of the EIsc.
trie uaiiway-Unions Hold Responsible
Waterbury, Conn. = An important
move in relation to the trolleymen's
strike, which has been in progress since
January II, was taken when Judge
Elmer, Of the Superior Court, on APP
plicatfon of the Connecticut Railway
and Lighting Company, granted a tenn
porary INDUCTION restraining the troll
leymen's union, all the other unions in
this city and all other persons from
acts calculated to interfere with the
company's business or its employees. In
the complaint of the Connecticut Rail-
way and Lighting Company, attached
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. 1913, Of the Amalgamated
Association of Street Railway En-.
ployes Of America, and includes all the
strikers and president and secretary
Of each Of the following unions: Polish
ers and buffers, brass workers., sheet
metal workers, press hands, typo.
graphical, team drivers, masons and
plasterers', iren holders, drug clerks,
electrical workers, BARRIERS, cigarmak-
ers', painters and decorators and car
penters and joiners'. To sweep in all
the strikers sympathizers, 'all other
associations and persons unknown to
the plaintiff and engaged in acts com.
planned of" are also cited as defend
ants. The injunction is made return
able on the first Tuesday in April.
The complaint declares that the de-
PENDANTS have c%onspired together and
with other persons unknown to the
plaintiff to injure the plaintiffs bust
ness, to prevent it from employing
other persons to do its work, to
prevent merchants from dealing
with the plaintiff, and to prevent
boarding house and lodging house
keepers from furnishing board and
lodging for the company's employees.
I. is alleged also, that the defendants
have participated in, melted or c
aged rioting, and that some persons in
sympathy with or connected with the
defendants have murdered or caused
to be murdered a policeman engaged in
the performance Of his duty.
The injunction orders the defendant
to desist from doing any unlawful act
i'll 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 OF any act or language tending
to prevent persons from entering the
employment of the plaintiff, or to in
duce persons to leave the employ Of
the plaintiff.
The defendants are also prohibited
from c~Ongregating 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 its cars or using its electric
lights. They are ordered, also, not to
threaten to boycott any persons or cor
porations who use the company's lights,
ride on it's cars OF deal with its pat
rOnS or employees.