The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-05
Jupge Jones of Federal { Court Makes Order. Tos STOP INTERFERENCE Qfncers of Union Must Answer { on September 13. Three Corporations File Complaints Averring Numerous Acts of
 Violence in Effort to Union-
 a iss Alabama's Mineral District.
T0s STOP INTERFERENCE

Birmingham lawyers. representing the Goal operators, who came to Mont gomery Friday night for the purpose, retufned to the Magic City Saturday evening bearing from Judge Thomas c. Jones of the United States Circuit Court an order restraining the striking miners of the Alabama mineral dis trictsfrom interference with the prop ertyAof the operators or with intimi- dati0n of non-union employees.
 The restraining order was made Sat- urdaY by Judge Jones and the officials of the United Mine Workmen of Amer ic4 end other defendants named in the bills Aof complaint are cited to answer on Tuesday, September 18th why pre- limfIIAry injunction should not be grnu<ed against their alleged acts of vioie1lce and intimidation.
 Three separate orders were made by Judge Jones, three bills of complaint having been filed respectively by the Tennessee Coal. Iron and Railroad Company, the Sloss- -Eheflield Steel and Iron Company and the Lacey-Buek Coal Company. all nonresident corpo- rations of Alabama
 These complaints were filed Friday with the clerk of the Northern Dis trict at Birmingham. They were brought to Montgomery by John M.
 
 representing the coal operators.
 Additional complaints were filed by the Republican Iron and Steel Com pany and the Pioneer Coal Company, but Judge Jones held that these com panies being resident corporations of the State. their complaint was not within the Jurisdiction of a federal court.
 Edward Flynn, president of Alabama Ry~ Y~.tt Of America, and William F. Fairiey, member of the National Executive Committee of the miners. are named as defendants in each of the complaints and numerous other defendants. mem bers of the miners union, are joined with them, differentt ones in each com plaint.
 Alterations of Operators.
 The three complaints make practi- cally the same allegations and numer- pus affldavits. supporting the allega- lions, accompany them After setting forth the character of the corporations making the complaints the bills go into R lengthy description of the object and purpose of the miners" union declaring that it proposes to momopolize the labor of the mineral districtA The bills de- clare that the union has large sums Of money for conducting strikes. but that
 
 process as indemnity for damages in- curred by the operators. The purpose of the strike, the bills aver, is to coerce The operators to employ none but union men. One of the rules of the union, It is averred. is that no union man shall work with or be associated with non-union men.
 The bills then aver that there is sufficiency of laborers in the mineral district to perform all the service nec- essary to conduct the business of the mine operators, but these non-union taborers have been prevented from per- forming such labor; that many have been intimidated and threatened with bodily harm and that the union min- CTS "have determined and have unlaw- fully iconspired to prevent your orator from securing the labor by which your orator would be able to conduct its said mining and furnace business. and which laborers ft could secure but for inc threats and intimidation by mem- bers9 and officers of said union."
 It is claimed that many members of the union are anxious to accept the terms offered them by the operators, but on account of their membership in inc union they have been denied the right by the union to work for the onerators It is expressly stated that the operators have reason to believe that Edward Flynn and other officers of the union have interfered with and are interfering with persons whose services have been secured to work for the operators and that these officials of the union have made speeches in the district advising union men that they should unionize all non-union men at all hazards and by force if necessary; that these speeches are menacing to the lawful rights of the coal operators
 The complainants show that they have valuable contracts for furnishing