Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-01
SWEEP INC ORDER
AGAINST STRIKE
PROMULGATE FED BY
JUDGE ANDERSON
Leaders, SiIenCed by Temper
ary Injunction, Are Unable
to Have "Last Word" With
the Mine Workers.
MASS MEETINGS CAN'T
BE HELD, IS RULING
No Orders or Messages of En-
Couragement Can Be Is
sued; Ban Is Put On Distri-
button of Strike Benefits.
10y aoHu,sc JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED w,Rsl


indianapolis, Oct 3t.-The strike of
bituminous miners went INTO effect
tonight with the national headquart-
ers here of the United Mine Workers
of America silenced by a restraining
order issued today by Judge A, B. An
derson, of the federal district court.
No "last word or other messages to
the members of the union could be is
sued by the executive board of Off
GERS Of the organization and they on
ly smiled grimiy when this fact was
brought to their attention.
While the strike was effective at
midnight most of the men who were
following 1t quit work with the end
of the day shift. IL was stated sew
eral days ago at union headquarters
that midnight of October 81 was Sc
lected for the official hour merely be-
cause it marked the beginning of NO
vember l, on which date the Cleveland
convention of the union had decreed
that the wartime wage agreement of
the miners should terminate. At that
time also it was pointed out that COM
paratively few mines have been rum
ming night shifts.
Deputy Marshals Busy.
Deputies of Mark Storen, United
States Marshal Of Indiana, were busy
all slteinooli serving notice OF the re-
straining order on union officials who
had been missed in the general round
up at noon when the meeting of the
unions executive board was invaded
by the process servers. Eighteen Of
the union leaders were served. The
visits made effective the order which
C. b. Ames. assistant attorney gen
tpA IN
court and which restrained the de-
PENDANTS from issuing any messages
oral or written. that the strike is to be
enforced as previously announced;
from issuing any further strike orders
or messages of encouragement or ex-
hortation and from distributing am
strike benefits.
The order was so sweeping that
Judge Ames explained after its issu-
ance that it would prevent any of the
men named in the bill from address
ing mass meetings.
The petition by the government, up
on which the order was based, charged
that the union men were conspiring 70
limit the facilities for the production
of the coal and to restrict the supply
and distribution of the fuel. The
writ accordingly commanded them to
refrain from continuing the alleged
conspiracy.
suit Based Upon Wartime Act.
The petition emphasized that the
suit was based upon a wartime act
by which the government was given
control of the fuel and food supplies
of the country and also pointed out
that the strike would cause cessation
of Transportation ard thus throw back
upon the public treasury the burden
of paying the guaranteed incomes
which the government contracted to
pay the railroads when it took con-
troll of them. 1t was also brought out
that the act in question specifically
provided that it was to continue in
force until the end of the state of war
had been proclaimed by the president.
Altogether eightyfour leaders OF
the big coal miners union were named
in the restraining order Fedora
marshals here were given names OF
twenty-five men to serve in Indianap-
oils and reached eighteen OF them as
follows:
Men Named In Order.
John L. Lewis, acting president; !
William Green, secretary-treasurer;
Percy Tetlow. statistician; Ellis Scar
les. editor of the Mine Workers jour |
nal: John Wilkinson, district presi-
dent Of district No. 81, Muskogee,
Okla, and the following members OF
the executive board John O'Leary, |
Pittsburgh; A. r. Watkins, Yorkvilie,
Ohio; M J. Ferry. Hazelton "a:
Lawrence Bramlet, Diamond, Ind. j.
j. Mates, Williamstown, Pa; w. u.
Van Horn, Terre Haute, Ind; Samuei
Ballantyne, Boone, Iowa; Frank wal |
ters, JelIico, Tenn; William Dalrym-
pie, McAlester, Okla; Hugh McLeoo,
Acme, Wyo.; George Baker, Central