The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-03
MUST
DISCONTINUE
PICKETING
But Vice Chancellor Howell,
in Paterson Case, Limits
Application Of Order.

Vice-Chancellor Howell today rem
so-called Paterson strike suit. He
makes permanent the preliminary res
RANT issued at the time the suit was
started, enioining the use of the strik-
ing silk workers from placing piekets
about the Hill silk mill or the streets
or thorodghfares leading thereto.
The vice-chancellor a y in his deci-
sion that while the restraint must pc
continued. Il do not mean to enjoin
the defendants in the broad terms
prayed for in the bill, but to enjoin
them from doing those acts which are
described in the bill as 'picketing, and
the order must be carefully limited to
those items"
The suit was brought by the Hill
silk Manufacturing Company against
William Kerr, John w. Pearson,
Arthur Saunders, James L. Cartwright.
John H. Westerhoff and Gustav Tosch,
striking employees of the complainant
company, and the Silk Loom Fixers
and Twisters Protective and Benevo-
lent Association, the defendants.
The bill of complaint. among other
things, alleged that the defendants,
after declaring a strike on May %
last, created discord and interfered
with the business of the complainant
by gathering in great crowds about its
mills. and "by means of what is called
a 'serenade' tried to prevent anyone
from working for the complainant or
continuing its employ"
The ~"serenade,'' as described in the
bill, consists Gin the gathering of a
large crowd of strikers and their friends
about the door of the complainants'
mill when any one working for 1t was
about to leave and have the crowd
shout, boot, hiss and cat-calls at such
persons, pointing to them and calling
them vile and indecent names, then to
follow uch persons to their homes,
keeping up the demonstration or noise
at the homes of such persons
This phase of the suit, the court spe-
officially rejects from consideration be-
cause of the lack of supporting proofs.
1.-THE affidavits annexed to the BILL"
says the court, ARE not as full and
complete as the court might expect
from complainant in a case which deals
with such important rights as are
sought to be protected In this case"
Reciting briefly the affidavits made
by the President of the complainant
company, its superintendent and its
secretary. the court concludes that not
withstanding this lack of completeness,
a prima facia case is made out as to
the charge of picketing, and he pro-
ceeds to point out that the answer of
the defendants to the charge of pick
citing is disingenuous.
1.-THE Silk Loom Fixers' Association
goes on the decision, had an oppor-
tunity to make a denial Of these
of picketing, and apparently
this was attempted by Thomas Nor
gan, an employee or agent of the assoc
citation. He say the complainant dis
charged all the members of the asso-
citation on May 22 = - m while
he denies that either himself or his
association has attempted to intimi-
date, coerce or annoy any of the COM
plainant's workmen, he does say that
the only object of the association is to
inform its own members, many of
whom come from other States and Sec
tons of tn country, of the fact that
there was a strike in the co~mplainant's
mill. How this could be accomplished
without doing the very thing the COM
plainant charges am unable to see.
Il fail to find that there are any
members of the defendant association
now employed by the complainant, or
that there is n necessity for the de-
PENDANTS. or any of them, to post them
selves about the c~omplainant's mill in
order to give the information which