The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-01
SIX STRIKING

Continued from Page one.l
filed before United States District
Judge Wilkerson almost Immediately
after the attorney general arrived.
Besides the railway employees de-
| partment, the six international unions,
International Brotherhood of Black
smiths, International Association OF
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers,
| Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, In
ternational Brotherhood CT Boiler
makers and Iron Shipbuilders, Inter-
| national Association of Machinists, In
ternational Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers. as well as 100 system fed
erations were named as the detectives
| of the injunction.
Soon after the arrival of the at
torney general, Blackburn Easterline,
assistant attorney general, appeared
before District Judge Wilkerson and
began reading a copy of the petition
for restraining order. The applica-
ton was sweeping in character and
sought to prevent all interference
| with operations of trains or with rail-
road property in any way.
The application for Injunction are
officially named the presidents of the
various union organizations fnvolve,i
| in the present strike, which started
July l, last, following wage decision
of the railroad labor board reducing
wages of railway employees thruout
| the country.
The suit sought to enjoin all rail-
way employees, attorneys, servants,
/ all persons acting in aid or in con-
| junction with them primarily, until
final hearing and permanently there
after,from in any manner interfering
\ with, hindering or obstructing railway
| companies, their agents servants or
| employees in the operation of their re-
| spectixe railroads and systems of
/ transportation or the performance of
their public duties and obligation in
the disposition of passengers and
property in the interstate commerce
/ and the~carrtage of the mails. and
| from IN any manner interfering with,
| hindering or obstructing the agents
| servants and employees of said railway
companies or any Of them, engaged
| in inspection, repair, operation and
use OF trains, locomotives. cars and
| other equipment of said railway COM
panies or any of them, and from pre-.
venting or attempting-to prevent any
person4sor persons from freely enter
ing into or from continuing in the
!. employ of said railway companies, for
the purpose of inspection and repair
| ing of locomotives and cars, or other
| wise.
Prevent Conspiracy.
The suit also enjoined against con-
spring, combining, confederating,
| agreeing and arranging with each
1
sons, organization or association to
interfere with or hinder-said railway
companies in the conduct of their law
full business of transportation of pas
sengers and property in interstate
commerce and the carriage of the
mails: or to injure, interfere with
hinder or annoy any employe of said
railway companies in connection with
the performance of their duties as
such employees or while going to or
| returning from the premises of said
railway companies in connection with
| their said employment, or at any time
! or place by displays of force or num-
bers, the making of threats, intimida-
tons, acts of violence. approbrious
Jeers, suggestions of danger, taunts
eptreaties. or other unlawful acts OF
conduct towards an employe or en-
ployer or officer of said railway COM
panies or towards any persons desir-
Gus or contemplating entering into
such employment