The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-09-07
Judge Issues Sweeping In
junction Against All
Rail Workers.
10 PRESERVE NATION
Supremacy of Government Is
Given as Real Cause for Or
der to Stop Rail Strikes.
BULLETIN.

(By Associated Press Leased Wire.)
Chicago - The United States
government today was granted a
temporary restraining order
against the six striking railroad
shop crafts unions, their officials
and members from interfering in
any way with the operation of the
railroads and their properties.
The order was granted by Fed
eral District Judge James III. Will
kerson on application of United
States Attorney General Harry M.
Daugherty and District Attorney
Chas. F. Clyne. The order will re-
main in force until September IL
pending hearing on the govern
ment's application for a permanent
writ Of Injunction.
''The underlying principle in
vOIved in this action" Attorney
General Daugherty said in con-
Guiding his plea for the court
order, sis the survival and the
supremacy of the government of
the United States"
The attorney general addressed
the court Immediately following
reading of the formal complaint,
read by Assistant Solicitor Gen
eraI Esterline. His plea for the
injunction, Mr.. Daugherty said, was
made necessary by the fact chat
there comes time in the history
of all nations when the people
must be advised whether they have
a government or not"
''NO union, or combination of
unions can, under our law, dictate
to the American union" the state
ment continued. "When the unions
claim the right to dictate to the
government and to dominate the
American people and deprive the
people of the necessities of life,
then the government will destroy
the unions for the government
of the United States is supreme
and must endure.
Tomorrow it will be said by
some more malicious than truth
full, that this proceeding is intend
ed as a death blow to the unions.
In my judgment, this movement
(the injunctiOn) is necessary for
the protection and preservation of
the unions themselves.
$50 long and to the extent that /
can speak for the government of
the United States, | wNl use the
power of the government within
my control to prevent the labor
unions of the country from de-
strOying the open shop.
'When a man in this country is
not permitted to engage in lawful
toll, whether he belongs to a union
or not, the death knell to liberty
will be sounded, and anarchy will
supercede organized government"
The attorney general told the
court that because of lawlcssness
and violence his department had
received urgent requests for no
less than 10000 deputy United
States marshals to keep order.
Already some $500 marshals have
been so assigned and in addition
special service men of the depart
ment have taken up similar work
throughout the country.
The cost of such special service,
he said, already was more than
$1,OOO,0OO, for the eight weeks
duration Of the strike.
"There are many who believe"
he said, con account OF. the ar
rogance of certain officials of labor
unions, that the unions should be
destroyed
81 do not think they should, but
/ think they should be corrected
and restrained.
mo labor union leader or capt.
talistic leader nor organization nor
organization of any kind, will be
permitted by the government of
the United States to laugh in the
frozen faces of a furnishing people
without prompt prosecution and
proper punishment.