The San Francisco call., 1904-04-30
National President Of Carmens Union Asks for Arbitration

ton that We could conceive OF without any
result Now We feel that propositions are
so fair and honorable that we can leave them
70 any set of fair-mnded persons and have
he snbrot,ed odereo that me points IN aspu1s
San francisco. We will abide by their de-
cision. p CORNELIUS
President and Business Agent.
j. II. BOWLING, Secretary Treasurer
Deeming the capacity of the hall at
headquarters too small to contain the
crowd of union men that is expected
TO attend the meeting tonight, Secre-
tary Bowling last night spent several
hours in search of a more commodious
meetingp place. He received offers of
several large halls, but no particular
choice was made last night. This morn
ing the place of meeting will be deter
mlned upon and all the members of the
union will be duly notified.
PROCEEDINGS IN COURT.
The United Railroads of San Fran
cisco have appealed to the courts for
an injunction and restraining order
to prevent the Garments Union from
going on strike. The application
Tor the order was filed by j. P. Lang
horne yesterday, but owing to the alb
sence from the city of Presiding Judge
kerrigan, the hearing was not and
could not be assigned to any particular
experiment. Judge Kerrigan will be
IN court this morning and the applica-
uon Will be assigned for hearing.
FRANK >. Gogin, an employe of the
United Railroads, a non-union man,
is the plaintiff. The application for
the writ OF injunction sets forth the
TACT that the defendants have within
the last sixty days combined and
federated together and do conspire
together with the unlawful purpose
and design of threatening, intimidat-
ing, coercing and compelling the
United Railroads of San Francisco to
obey their wishes and in so doing the
plaintiff is greatly injured thereby, and
further that it is the intention of the
defendants to strike on or about May
l. The court is asked to issue an or
der restraining the carmen from strik-
ing.
The defendants in the case are:
Division No. 205. Amalgamated Association
oil street and Electric Railway Employees OF
1Ahs 1AiheriGa' Richard Cornelius. w: J. c. Cold
{. Ayers, c. otterson, J. Cogorno, W. r. Bell
A. Briggs. A. L. Burroughs. w. C. Burton
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r. Whitney. A. X. Burroughs, c. P. O'Han-
lon, w F. Stanton. Harry A. Knox. p. NJ
re lynch Roofrt shields HI GeySs W TrodSs dne Pat
Mitchell William Ewing, +. Nelson, S. Prout
w. G. Kichwell, c. Mitchell T, Doran. T.
Murray. j.. G. Rictor, N. Halberson NJ
O'Connor, j. Milward. II. Mote, ]. w. Cliff,
G. Knauft. F. A. Hardy. w. S. Neil, l.. Pc
teTs6n' tIst'i g.. o. n. James w Tanner and nine
tions of Street and Electric Railway EN-
ptpyes, NJ. D. Mahon and w. j. Mcleod.
ASKS FOR HEARING.
j. P. Langhorne, as attorney for the
plaintiff, endeavored to have a hear
ing at o'clock yesterday afternoon
before Judge Hunt, but was unsuccess-
ful, as that member of the bench re-
fused to grant hearing until the case
had been properly assigned. Speak
ing of his action in the matter, Judge
Hunt said:
declined to grant a bearing on the ground |
that the case had not been assigned to me- !
and as Judge kerrigan is attending the Ma |
tive Sons meeting in Vallejo there is no one |
who has any authority to assign cases during |
his absence. l believe this is the first time |
such circumstance has occurred for the |
custom has been for the presiding Judge to |
delegate the authority to some member OF the !
bench during his absence but in this instance /
the formality was overlooked.
So far the case itself is concerned, told |
Nr. I4anghorne that If had authority to take |
the matter up without it being regularly as
signed to | should refuse to grant the |
writ. The application is for an order of !
court to restrain the employees of the United |
Railroads from striking. The court has no |
such power. II the employees of the United /
Railroads should commit some act of vio- /,
lence then the court would have a right to act |
and issue a restraining order, but 1 told Mr.. |
Langhorne the court has no right to restrain |
the employees Of the company from striking.
Attorney Langhorne does not ac- |
cept the unofficial opinion of Judge !
Hunt as logical or binding. He will |
permit the application. as filed with |
the County Clerk yesterday, to stand |
without any amendments. 1t is his |
to appear in court this morn |
ing and ask for an immediate con- |
of the application. In |
speaking of the position taken by |
Judge Hunt. he said.
The fact that Judge Hunt declined to hear