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noon to serve on all the de
PENDANTS named.
May Forbid Meetings.

The results OF Sucn AsWHOlc-
sale injunction, which Writ
ually prohibits the striking
shopmen and their leaders
from doing anything in con-
nection with the strike, is ex-
pected to be Of far-reachhg
consequences.
Passages in the injunction
are so stringent as to allow
the Interpretation of forbid
ding meetings of even the
leaders in connection with the
strike activities.
Attorney General Daugh-
erty arrived in Chicago to-;
day secretly, prepared to take
the most positive move yet
made by the United States
Government in the railroad
crisis.
He appeared before Fod-
eral Judge Wilkerson and
filed a petition for a blanket
injunction restraining rail-
road employees throughout the
country from interfering
with the operation Of any
railroad.
Defendants Named. y
Daugherty was accompanied
here by Blackburn Esterline,
Special Assistant United States
General in Chicago. 81
Immediately upon his arrival
in Chicago the Attorney General
and Esterline went to the Black
stone Hotel, where they were met
by District Attorney Charles F.
Cline. The three immediately
went into a secret conference.
y Conspiracy Charged.
The petition, which. contains fifty
closely typed pages, sets forth that
on July /, 100000 members Of the
Federated Shopcrafts laid down
their tools and combined and con-
spired'. to leave their posts OF en-
ployment In refusal Of awards made
by the United States Railroad
Labor Board, which the petition
points out Is an organization
authorized by Federal statute--the
transportation act.
The petition alleges that In thus
overriding the labor board the fed
Grated shop workers Showed con.
.ampt for the board, and through
the board, for the Government of
the United States" -
IN was said by those closely In
touch with the situation that any
Violation of such an injunction,
issued by the Federal Court at the
request Of the Attorney General
himself, would probably mean the
employTnent, II necessary, OF the
whole Of the standing army OF fne
United States to enforce the courts
edicts.
The following were made defend
ants in the petition: :,
Railway Employees Department OF
the American Federation OF LABOR:
b. M. Jewell, head Of the striking
ehopmen; J. r. McGrath, vice presi'
dent. and John Scott, secretary-treas'
urer.
International Brotherhood Of Black
smiths, Drop Forgers, James W.
Cline, president.
international Alliance of Amalga.
mated Sheet Metal Workers, j. j..
Hynes, president.
international Brotherhood of Boil
ermakers, Iron Ship Builders ana
Helpers of America, J. A. Franklin
president.
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen OF
America, Martin +. Ryan, president.
international Association Of Ma
chinists, william II. Johnston, presi-
dent: Z. c. Dawson, grand secretary
treasurer.
International Association Of Elec.
trical Workers. James p. Noonan.
president.
Atlanta, Tennessee and Northern
system Federation, No. 1872, ]. M.
Key. president, and Robert A. Sea.
bury, and
One hundred and nineteen other
system federations, together with
their presidents and secretaries.
This IL what the bill asks.
First--That each defendant and
thet attorneys, servants, agents.
associates, members, employees and
ali persons asking aid Of, or In con-
junction with them; be enJoined
and restrained, primarily. until
final hearing hereon and perpetu.
ally thereafter from the following:
(a) In any manner interfering
with, h tndering, or obstructing said
railway companies or any of them,
their agents, servants or employees
in the operation OF their respective
railroads and systems of transpor-
tation or the performances Of their
public duties and obligations in the
transportation of passengers and
property IN Interstate commerce
and the carriage Of the mail and
from In any manner interfering
with. hindering or obstructing, or
20 injure. interfere. hinder. or an.
noy an employee Of said railroad
companies or any of them In con-
nection with the performance Of
their duties as such employees or
while going ~ or returning from
the premises of said railroad COM
panles In connection with. their em-
pioyment or at any time or place
by displays or force OF numbers.
the making OF threats, intimida-
tion, acts OF violence. opprobrious
epithets, jeers. suggestions OF dan
0ar taunta entreatiea or other uu-