Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-09-07
Electrical Workers File Ac-
ton to Prevent Service of
Court Orders.
OFFICIALS ARE CHARGED
WITH THREATENING UNION
Plaintiffs Demand Right to Hold
Meetings and Garry
on Strike.

The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. James P. Noonan.
it's president, and Charles P. Ford.
it's secretary. today filed suit in the
District Supreme Court for an in
junction against Peyton Gordon.
United States attorney for the Dis
trict Of Columbia. and Edgar c. Sny-
der. United States marshal. to pre-
vent service of the strike Injunction
and to enjoin them from interfering
with meetings of the plaintiff organi-
zation or the conduct of the railroad
strike.
Notice was served by Attorneys
James S. Easby-Smith and David A.
Pine on the defendants that they will
ask Justice Bailey Saturday morn
ing to issue a temporary injunction.
The plaintiffs assert that the in
junction has =" extra-territorial ef-
feet and that the Chicago judge had
no authority in law or equity to is
sue the injunction. No service was
made or attempted to be made to
in Chicago in accordance with the
provisions of the Sherman act be-
fore the injunction was granted, il
Is claimed.
Unions Position Given.
The petition asks that Maj. Gordon
and Marshal Snyder be enjoined from
interfering with meetings of the
members of the union on strike and
from attempting to enforce in the
tr,,, T.
sued at Chicago, Ill. at the request of
Attorney General Daugherty against
the union leaders 1t also seeks to
prevent the government officials
named from hindsring in any manner
the plaintiffs in any OF the lawful
acts necessary to the conduct OF
their organization and Of the strike.
After setting forth the organisation
purposes of the association and its
members in the strike are not In re-
straint of trade or commerce. hut
for the lawful, carrying out OF the ie-
gitimate objects of the association. the
plaintiffs tell the court: . -
last aforesaid. July !. 1922. and
while said members of said asso
citation were on strike as aforesaid,
the practice and conduct OF the said
association and of the plaintiffs
Noonan and Ford as individuals and
aforesaid, and also the practice and
conduct of the members of the asso-
citation so as aforesaid on strike, in
cluding those in the District of Co
Iumbia has been and now is to do
or cause to be done certain lawful
from performing any work or labor
for the said railroad companies, and
to recommend. advise and persuade
others by peaceful means so to do;
and to attend at certain places
where they might lawfully be for
or communicating information and
peacefully persuading other persons
to abstain from working for said
railroad companies, and to pay the
members of said association. so en-
gagged in the aforesaid dispute, GER
tain strike benefits. and to peace
ably assemble in lawful manner
and for lawful purposes only and
to do certain other acts and things
which might lawfully be done.
More particularly it is, and since
said 1st day of July. 1922. has been,
the practice and custom of the mem.
bers Of all the local unions of said
association who are involved in said
strike, including those in the District
of Columbia, daily to assemble peace
ably and in a lawful manner to hold
meetings for the purpose of main
tanning their organization: And the
plaintiffs aver that the holding of
such daily, peaceable and lawful
meetings and assemblages has been
found by said association and its
members, from long experience. to be
absolutely indispensable to the main
tenance of the organization of said
association and Its local unions and
absolutely essential for the purposes
of ascertaining the necessity fer the
payment of strike benefits and Of the
paying of the same and of cOmmuni-
eating and disseminating informa-
ton among the members of said as
sociation, and for other lawful and
legitimate purposes.
Deny Unlawful Intentions.
plaintiffs aver that neither before
nor since the said 1st day of July.
1922, has the said association nor the
plaintiffs Noonan and Ford individu-
ally or in their respective official
capacities as Aforesaid, nor, to the
best Of plaintiffs knowledge and be-
lief, have any other Of the members
of said association, including the
members of said local unions in the
District Of Columbia, committed any
unlawful acts incident to said strike
or the prosecution thereof; but plain
tiffs aver that on the contrary the
plaintiff association and the plaintiffs
Noonan and Ford and their associate
members of said association have
issued instructions and have taken
every other means in their power to
prevent the commission, by any MEM
ber of the association, or by any other
person, of any acts Of violence to per-
son or property and of any and all
other unlawful acts. and have never
countenanced or connived at the COM
mission Of any unlawful acts; and
If any unlawful acts have been COM
mitted by any member or members
Of said association the plaintiffs aver
that they have no knowledge Of the
commission Of any such acts, and
that II any unlawful acts have been
by any members OF the
association the same were committed
contrary to the governing laws Of
said association and contrary to the
instructions. both oral and written,
issued by the association and by
the plaintiffs NoonAn and Ford. and
are and were contrary to the
approval or ratification of any of the
marked exhibit No. 1. and prayed to be
set out herein, copy of instructions
plaintiffs Noonan and Ford to all
u said strike, on or about July 15,