New-York tribune., 1922-09-02
Sweeping Injunction For
bids Unions Every Form
of Action Designed to
Interfere With Carriers
Debs Case Cited as
Court Precedent.
Move Is Futile, Leaders
of Crafts Say, Predict
ing Collapse of Roads
specia, Dispatch to The Tribune

Special Dispatch to The Tribuns
CHICAGO. Sept. 1.-THE sweeping in
junction restraining striking railroad
shopmen from interfering in any way
with the operation of the nations car
riers granted by United States District
Judge James H. Wilkerson here to-day
on motion of Attorney General Harry
M. Daugherty brought defiant responses
from labor leaders in all parts of the
country.
Declarations that it would take
more than an injunction to stop the
shopmen's strike we're issued by John
Scott, secretary-treasurer of the sh on
crafts federation, and by W. j. John
ston, head of the machinists' union.
both of whom were named in the in
junction. Similar views were expressed
by other labor leaders, who insisted
that the restraining order could never
prevent the collapse of the transpor-
tation system.
Order Returnable September IL
The granting of the temporary re-
straining order, returnable Septem-
Der ii, came unexpectedly soon after
the arrival in Chicago this morning of
Mr.. Daugherty and corps of his as
sistants. Their case, put before the
court in fifty-page petition, repre-
sented the view of the government as
worked out at recent Cabinet ses-
sion and withheld temporarily until the
recent efforts to end the shipments
strike proved conclusively to President
Harding and his advisers that legal ac-
tion was the only means left of meet
ing the situation created by the strike.
AS set forth by the Attorney General,
the suit was intended to keep the rail
roads operating and free from inter-
ference and obstruction. Judge Wilker-
son, in issuing the order, declared tHat
the Attorney Generals request ain
volved the fundamental principles of
the government of the United States >
The Attorney General told the court
that because of lawlessness and
violence against railroad property and
railroad workers his department had
received requests for NO less than
10000 deputy marshals TO keep down
the strike disorder. Already $500
marshals have been so assigned, and
in addition special service men of the
department have taken UP similar
work throughout the country, the At
torney General said. The cost of such
special service, he added, was more
than 81 100000 for eight weeks dura-
tion of the strike.
Summarizes Loss in Freight
In California alope, Mr.. Daugherty
said, more than $75,O0o,0O0 worth of
fruit and produce already had been
destroyed because of the failure of
transportation systems to move The
crops. In Somerset, Ky, $4,000 cars
of bituminous coal were congested in
the railroad yards yesterday. Vandals
had tampered with more than 5000
cars there, he declared. and as result
the nation was faced with suffering
for want of coal.
Fifty per cent of the engines of the
nations railroads have been rendered
useless by fawless activities since the
strike began, he went on. The Chicago
q Alton Railroad has been forced into
receivership by the drain upon its re-
sources caused by the strike.
A thousand mail trains have been
discontinued, thousands Of loaded
freight cars have been held on side
tracks for weeks, thousands of loco
motives stand idle in the yards, nu-
merous industrial plants throughout
the country are suspended for want of
fuel and material and thousands of
workmen are deprived of an opportu-
nifty to support their families, all as a
result of the acts of the defendants,
thc government charged.
Defendants in Action Listed
This petition asking the issuance of
the injunction made the following men
defendants to the action, together with
the presidents and secretaries Of 119
system fedefations:
Railway employees department,
American Federation of Labor; Bert
M. jewell, j. F. McGrath vice president
and John Scott secretary-treasurer.
International Brotherhood of Black
smiths, Drop Forgers and Helpers;
James w. Cline, president.
International Alliance of Amalgamat-
(CcntjDued OIL next uaue)