Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-30
.ENJOINS UNIONS
At SAN PEDRO
SUPERIOR JUDGE GIBBS ISSUES
RESTRAINING ORDER
Lumber Companies Ask for Protection
for Employees Against Striking
Longshoremen-case Is Set
for October IL

The corporations of San Pedro tool
unions of that city yesterday morn
ing. when attorneys representing thu
Banning company the San Pedro
Lumber company, the E. X. WOOD
Lumber company and the Kerckhoff.
Gunner Mill and Lumber company ap.
peared before Judge Gibbs, presidine
Judge of the Los Angeles county su-
perior court and obtained a temporary
restraining order against the Long
shoremen's union.
The injunction proceedings will be
argued before Judge Conrey october
12 in department five of the superior
court, where a like petition filed by the
Crescent Lumber company was ad-
judged IN favor of the plaintiff several
weeks ago.
The action taken by the lumber COM
panies yesterday morning is a petition
for protection against the presence of
striking longshoremen and dockmen.
Oppose the Strikers
Early in August, when the strike was
declared, the companies had a number
of men on hand to WORK in place of the
strikers, so that up TO the present the
strikers have fought a losing fight
and have been losing time and wages
with but little hope of return. Shortly
after the strike was declared the COM
panies hired a force of special officers
to keep guard over the workingmen
and prevent the strikers from starting
trouble.
But, according to the reports of the
Crescent company, which first petit
toned a restraining order, the union
had issued circulars warning the men
not to work and using the word "scab"
They also stated that the unionists
had been placing pickets and the ac-
tions of the pickets were far from or
derly.
They were accused of using bad Ian
guage and were alleged to have rowed
about the harbor in small boats, inter-
fering with the work and calling the
employees of the company hard names.
A temporary injunction was granted,
and later, when it was argued in court
Judge Conrey refused TO lift the re-
straining order, on the ground that
although the unions were allowed to
place pickets they were not allowed to
circulate literature with the word
"scab" in it, and had therefore beer.
guilty of an attempt to create trouble
Pickets Ordered Away
Since that time the strikers and
their pickets, by order of the courts,
have been compelled to keep away
from the Crescent company's docks
and have even been forbidden to hang
about the wharves in the neighborhood
of the Crescent company's property.
But recently, according to the petit
ton filed yesterday, the unionists have
transferred their activity to the docks
and wharves leading to the other COM
DanieS' prODerty so that Yesterday
practically the entire lumber interest
of San Pedro appeared in court and
asked that the strikers be kept entirely
away from the wharves and that their
pickets be restrained from speaking to
or interfering with the companies em-
plOyes while they were at work.
The restraining order went into effect
and until October IL,
when the question of permanent in
junction will be thrashed out before
Judge Conrey, the lumber companies
will be entirely free from any union
under penalty of contempt
of court.