The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1922-09-05
Temporary Injunction
Issued Against Crafts

Attorney General Harry NJ Daugh-
erty in the district federal court at
noon Friday obtained from Judge j.
II. Wilkerson, Chicago, the most
sweeping temporary Injunction
against labor unions ever issued by
federal court. The attorney gener-
al was accompanied by Blackburn Es-
terline, assistant solicitor general,
and swarm of other assistants from
the Washington office.
The injunction is directed against
the six shopcrafts now involved in
life and death struggle with the rail-
roads. The temporary injunction
makes it punishable offense to car
ry on a strike, to support the strik-
ers, which incidentally means to col
lect union dues and pay the strike
benefits or to obstruct railroad trans
portation in any way.
1t restrains shopmen from "inter-
fering with the repair, inspection and
operation of trains. locomotives and
cars"
1t restrains the shopmen and 9th
ers from "conspiring or agreeing
with other organizations to obstruct
transportation.
The open shop is endorsed and sup
ported. The document restrains shop
men from attending public mass
meetings. Jeers humiliating epithets,
taunts or threats are barred 1t re-
strains the shopmen from giving or
causing newspaper interviews to be
published.
Excerpts from the attorney gener-
ais plea follows:
81 will use the power of the gov
ernment of the United States, with
in my control, to prevent the labor
unions of the country from destroy
ing the open shop"
"No union or combination Of un-
ions can, under our laws, dictate to
the American people"
"No labor leader or capitalistic
leader no organization or association
of any kind will be permitted by the
government of the United States to
laugh in in the frozen faces OF fam
ishing people. without prompt prose
cution and proper punishment"
The attorney general described
some of the general effects OF the
strike today. This department had
received urgent requests for no less
than 10000 deputy marshals to keep
down the strike disorder. Already
some $500 marshals have been so
assigned, and in addition special ser
vice agents of the department have
taken up similar work throughout the
country"
"The cost of this service in eight
weeks has been more than $1,000, ,000,-
OOO."
''In California alone more than
$75.000,000 worth of fruit and pro-
ducts have already been destroyed
because of failure of transportation
systems to move the crops"
"In Somerset, Ky, $4,000 cars of
bituminous coal are congested in the
railroad yards. Vandals had hamper
ed with more than 500 cars there"
Fifty per cent of the engines of
the nations railroads have been rem
dered useless by lawless activities
since the strike began"
THE Chicago & Alton railroad has
been forced into receivership by the
drain upon its resources caused by
the strike"
"A thousand mail trains have been
discontinued; thousands of loaded !
cars have been held on sidetracks for
weeks; thousands of locomotives
stand idle in the yards, numerous in
dustrial plants throughout the coun-
try are suspended for want of fuel
and material and thousands Of work
men are deprived of am opportunity
to support their families, all as re-
suit of the acts of the defendants"
The men and the organizations
against which the injunction is di-
rected are the entire railway en-
ployes department of the American
of Labor and 1913 subsidi-
aries.
After declaring that the railway
labor board was an agency of the