The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-08-31
DECISION STIRS STRIKERS
JUSTICE GOFFS RULING PROVES
FIREBRAND IN NEW YORK
Demand for CLOSED Shop" is De.
ciared Conspiracy I'm Restraint of
irade - Sixty Thousand Coak.
makers Parade Streets, CARVING
Banners and Shouting.

New York, Aug. 27.-Parades Of
protest broke out all over the East
SIDE this morning on receipt of the
news that Justice Goff had ruled IN
the State Supreme Court today that
strike which demands the "closed
shop' is conspiracy in restraint NJ
trade. Bands of the $4,000 c,oak.
makers now on strike marched
though the streets. one of them to
the City Hall. carrying banners and
american flags and shouting closed
snops' at every step. There was no
violence, but apparently the decision
mad greatly stirred the strikers.
Justice Gofrs decision granted an
injunction to a member of the Man
ufacterers' Protective Association in
restraint of acts of violence, threats.
p1cketing and partrolling by strikers
The primary purpose Of this strike"
reads his finding, 'Is not TO better
the condition Of the workingmen but
to deprive other men of the opnor.
tunlty OF their rights to work" He
supports his ruling with a recent de.
cision OF the State Court of Appeals
against the Thompson-St -Starrett Com
pany, the large building corporation.
which he cites as follows:
THE Court Of Appeals has held that
it is against the policy of the State
for employers who control practical
iy the whole trade Of a community to
combine for the purpose of compel
ling workmee to join a particular
union as a condition Of employment.
II the rule thus laid down be law.
and 1t must be accepted as such. be.
ing the latest expression of the Court
or Appeals, 1t must be applicable 20
"orkmen as well as employers. Il
would be repugnant to reason to
hold that 1t applies to one and NOT
the other. If a combination of one
to refuse employment except on con-
dition Of joining a union be axains,
public policy, a combination OF the
other to cause refusal Of employ
ment except on condition of joining
a union is alike against public
policy"
Justice Gofr then cites one of the
articles Of the compromise presented
py representatives Of the union to
the manufactu IS as follows:
THE associ on\ COZ manufactur-
ers) shall oblis~te each of its MEM
bers to employ union men as long a.
the union shall be able to furnish
union men. who can do the work
properly. Within two weeks the
non-union men shall join the union"
Inis clause, he continues, which
SHOWS the purpose animating the
strike as interpreted by the Court, is
clearly unlawful and he passes to the
conduct Of the strike. "If the unions,,
he stated, have not formally direct
ed systematic course of aggression
oy criminal acts. the members of the
unions, acting in concert, connived at
and morally supported such acts on
the part of many Of their members in
pursuance of a common object"
A final vote on the tentative agree
ment reached yesterday between the
strikers and the manufacturers will
not be reached until late tonight.
General opinion inclines to the be-
lief that the terms will be accented
although there is much complaint
that they are not more favorable to
the strikers