The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-07

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General Daugherty today sent for Sen
ator Borah, Republican of Idaho, chair
man of the senate labor committee.
and after conference regarding the
injunction issued against the striking
railway shopmen, it was indicated that
the government would not insist at
next Mondays hearing on the per-
manent Injunction on the provisions
alleged to curb freedom of speech
WASHINGTON, Sept. with ev.
cry public statement from officials and
labor circles tending to discredit re
ports of negotiations between railway
strikers and executives looking to sep
arate settlements of the shopmen's
strike, one important group of strikers
today struck to prevent enforcement
of the governments sweeping restrain
ing order issued in Chicago last Sat
urday.
The International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers, through T. P.
Noonan, president, and Charles p
| Ford, secretary, filed a petition in the
supreme court of the District of Co
| lumbia for a permanent Injunction re-
| straining local federal officials from
! proceeding under the Chicago order,
and for temporary Injunction to the
same effect pending decision on the
! first application
Hearing on Saturday.
Hearing on the temporary order
was set for Saturday before Judgs
i d. da1Iarod fhaT
neither the organization as body its
members, nor its officials had been
guilty of any Of the illegal acts charg-
ed by the government and asserted
that the Chicago order was without au-
thority of law and unenforceable in
the District of Columbia.
| Mr. Noonan declared the electrical
workers were proceeding on their own
initiative in seeking the injunction,
but added that if granted, they ex-
pected it to apply to members of their
union throughout the country.
I'VE don't particularly like govern
ment by Injunction" Mr.. Noonan de-
clared in discussing the eceltrical
workers application "but if the ad-
ministration desires to proceed that
way we can do so as well. While
have not been served with any copies
of the Chicago restraining order the
district attorney and the United States
marshal in Washington notified me
and all the members of our organiza-
ton through the newspapers that we
couldn't hold meetings or even discuss
the strike.
1--WE think as a 1aw-abiding union,
that we are entitled to do that and to
conduct our organizations affairs
along regular lines and have conse-
quently put it up to the court to de-
termine."
WASHINGTON, Sept. flames P.
Noonan, president of the Information
al Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,
leader in the strike, today was serv-
ed formally with copy of the re-
. straining order obtained by the gov
} eminent from a Chicago federal court.
Service was effected by United States
Marshal E. c. Snyder, who was under
stood to have received his instructions
prior to the filing of a petition IN the
courts of the District of Columbia, by
Noonan's organization for an order re-
straining the federal authorities from
] enforcing the provision of the Chicago
: order.
L NEW YORK, Sept. THE support
5 of the American Federation of Labor
/ in its effort TO bring about the i'm
: peachment of Attorney General Daugh-
erty and Federal Judge Wilkerson, of
5 Chicago, for their part in the issuance
: of the rail injunction was pledged by
Samuel Gompers, federation president,
5 in a telegram received today from At
2 lantic City by the Central Trades and
r Labor council.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept -
t American Federation of Labor chiefs
: led by President Samuel Gompers to-
! day prepared to draft a plan Of attack
upon Attorney General Daugherty's
= injunction against the railroad shop
crafts strikers. Following a series of
secret conferences, which lasted until
late last night 1t was unofficiaiy an
S nounced at labor headquarters IN the
2 Ambassador hotel, that it had been
: almost definitely decided to attempt
through the courts to have the Daugh-
e erty act vacated
: No fixed plan for legal campaign
e has been evolved so far. it was said
! by the labor leaders They expect,
: however, to have such plan in shape
l. to be submitted to the executive cour-
Gil OF the american feueratlcn soI
/ Labor when it convenes in formal ses-
sion Saturday.
A score Of the labor crafts were also
) on the scene as today's program got
e under way Besides the 10 vice-pres-
idents for whom reservations had been
: made at the Ambassador and Rich
mond hotels, several non-members of
the American Federation of Labor ex-
ecutive council arrived in time to par.
ticipate in last nights deliberations
Leaders Present
These included; George w Perkins.
head of the Cigar Makers Information
al, of which Mr. Gompers was for many
years president, Jacob Fischer,
president of International BARRIERS Un-
ion; John ]. Manning, chief Of the
Union Label Trades, and John Nc
Pharland president of the Information.
al Typographical Union.
The last named it was said came
here to gain the support of Mr.. Comp
ers and his aides in a program which
he expects to introduce before the an
nual convention of his organization be
] ginning at Atlantic City next Monday.