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added Mr.. Howard. THAT is, they are
not being sent here by the National Ty-
pothetae. We have more book and job
eompositors now than we need and are
turning men away every day who are
seeking employment.
Suit for injunction Filed.
| The differences between the Washington
| Typothetae and Columbia Typographical
! Union. No. 1e1, over the question of an
eight-hour day and an open shop reached
/ a crisis yesterday afternoon, as exclusively
| stated in The Star, when counsel for the
| Typothetae filed bill of injunction against
/ the union, Its officers and pickets, praying
/ the court to restrain the latter from inter-
fering with the Typothetae in the conduct
| of the business of their respective printing
houses by means of picketing, boycotting
and the bribery of employees.
| The bill reviews the circumstances lead
ing up to the strike of the printers and de-
clares that the local union and its MEM
| bers have conspired with other labor or
| CARNATIONS in the District of Columbia to
| injure said compliments, and to that end
| have established system of pickets about
the places of business of complalnants,
| such pickets in some instances consisting
| of rowdies and thugs imported by said
union from other cities for the purpose OF
| doing picket duty. and by violence ana
other methods 20 intimidate workmen now
| in complainants employ from continuing
| therein"
| 1t is charged further that certain of these
| pickets men having criminal records,
and attention is called to the fact that on
| Saturday last number of non-union men,
while on their way home from their places
| of employment. were set upon by twelve
| or more members of the union and foreibly
ing an O
| and that one of them was injured
Before Justice Stafford.
The petition was filed before Justice STAFF
| ferd by Attorneys McKenney and Flannery,
| counsel for the Typothetae. 1t is announced
| that Attorneys Ralston & Siddons are
| counsel for Columbia Typographical Union
and the eight-hour committee.
| The complainant members of the Typoth-
| etae of washington named In the bill are
! Byron s. Adams, George e. Howard, H.
Reresford. the Globe Printing Company,
| the w. F. Roberts Company, incorporated;
| William J. Wallace, John F. Sherry, the
! Henry E. wilkens Company, the Crane
| Company, George Gibson, Stormont 81 jack
| son, George S. Whitmore. s. Edwin Tom
| linson and H. l.. Rothrock
| The defendants are John r. Berg, w. II.
| Love- George G. Sebold, James E. Bright
| Charles C. Thompson, Joseph c. Whyte,
H. B. Goodrich Thomas c. Parsons, FRANK
Kidd Robert M B SUI aerr rraR Rove e.
! Frank Thornburg. Charles Rose. 5r., u. Z.
! Sheriff P C. Hilton and Columbia Typo
| graphical Union, No. 101.
The complainants assert that they are
| engaged In the business of book and job
| printing in the District of Columbia, anu
| have many thousands of dollars invested
| in their respective plants; that with put
| few exceptions they all belong to an IN
Incorporated association known as the Iy-
! pothetae of Washington. which ASSOCIATION
| is a local branch of the voluntary assocla-
| ton known as the Typothetae of America,
| which was organized and Is maintained
for the purpose of advancing and improV-
Ing the printing and binding business, anu
also for the purpose or assisting It's mem
bers in the employment OF skllled me
chanics whose services may be required by
them.
They further aver that the defendants are
all officers. members and plcketa OF Ioluh a.
ba Typogra phical Union, No. 10l which is
an organization existing In the Dlstflct
of Columbia, composed, among others, OF
typesetters and compesitors; that 1t is the
policy OF said Columbia Typographical
Union No 1O1 and its members to pre-
vent the employment in the shops of per-
sons conducting the printing and oinoing
business of workmen who do not beions
to said union, and that a means or pre-
venting such employment all members or
said union are required by its rules ana
regulations to strike and leave the employ
ment of any employer who persists IN
employing non-union men, and. therefore
members of the union will not work in what
is called an "open shop, that is, where
persons other than union members are en-
ployed.
Alleged Desire to Control.
The complainants claim that it is the poll
icy of the union to control the hours or
employment and the rate of wages to be
paid to its members who may seek or ac-
cent employment In Job printing houses
In the District of Columbia and to en-
force such control 1t Is the policy of the
terfere by strikes and boycotts, to so IN
terfere with their business as to compei
them to conduct the same in accordance