Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-02
AN INJUNCTION .
ISSUED AGAINST
ALL UNIONS IN
RAILWAY STRIKE
Members and Officers Are
Temporarily Restrained
rom Interfering With
Operation of Roads,
COURT SETS CASE FOR
HEARING ON SEPT. II
Shop Crafts Officials Say
the Action Will Have No
Effect Whatever on the
Present WaIk0ut,
by the Associated Press.

Chicago, Sept. Cby the Asso-
ciated Press) Taking one Of the
most dramatic steps ever attempt
ed in n s'rike situation, the United
States government today obtained
a temporary federal order restrain
ing striking railroad shopmen, their
and affiliated bodies
throughout the country from inter
fering in any way whatever with
the operc ion of the nations rail-
roads.
The restraining order. hearing Of
which was st for September II,
was issued by Federal Judge James
Fl. WilkersOn, upon the petition
Of United States Attorney General
Harry NJ. Daugherty, who came
here fro Washington to argue the
action.
Scope of Order.
The order enjoins until the hear
ing, all railway employees, attor-
neys, servants. agents. associates
and all persons acting in aid or in
with them from in any
manner interfering with, hindering
or obstruCting railway companies,
their agents, servants or employees
in the operation of their respective
railroads and systems of transpor-
tation, or the performance of their
public duties and obligations in the
transportation of passengers and
property in interstate commerce
and the carriage of the mails, and
from In any manner interfering
with employees engaged in inspec-
ton, repair. operation and use OF
trains, locomotives. cars and other
and from attempting to
prevent any person from freely
entering into or continuing in the
employ of the companies for the
purpose of inspection and repair
ing of locomotives, or cars. or
otherwise.
Underlying Principle.
The underlying principle involv
ed in the action, the attorney gen.
eral said in concluding his argu
ment forth order, Is the survival
and the supremacy Of the govern
ment of the United States
Declaring that his request was
not aimed at union labor, the at
tOrney general said that the step
was necessary to the preservation
Of the unions themselves, At the
same time he asserted that the
expected to use its
authority to prevent the labor
union from destroying the open
shop"
"Whcn the unions claim the
right { dictate 10 the govern
mcnt and to dominate the
American people and deprive
the American people of the
necessities of life" he warned.
'thcn the government will de-
strOy the unions, for the gov
Crnment of the United States
is supreme and must endure"
The railway employees depart
ment of the American Federation
of Labor. r. NJ. Jewell its presi-
dent; J. f. McGrath, vice president,
and John Scott, secretary treasurer.
together with the six shopcrafts
brotherhoods, the 100 system fed
erations and their presidents and
secretaries were made defendants
in the attorney generals petition.
Officials of the shop crafts as
serted that the order would have
no effect on continuance of the
strike.
Strike viii Continue.
"The strike will continue until
n satisfactory settlement has been
reached Secretary Scott said. W
", Johnston, president Of the In
ternational Association of Machin-
lists, said that leaders will not abata
their efforts to make the strike eff
fective despite any action taken by
the courts. r. NJ, Jewell. head OF
the shop crafts. issued no state
ment and at his headquarters early
tonight it was reported that he was
'in conference"
While Mr.. Daughcrty, Blackburn
f. Sterling, his assistant and
Charles Cline, United States dis
trict attorney. all refused to conf
ment on the possible effect of the
injunction, Mr.. Daugherty said his
future moves will be governed en-
tirely by the actions of the persons
enjoined.
Efforts at Mediation.
In his presentation before the
court, Mr.. Daugherty reviewed tho
efforts at mediation. particularly
President Harding's attempts to
end the strike. He called attention
to the fact that the railroad labor
board is an agency of the govern
ment and that the president issued
n proclamation calling upon the
strikers to return to work, obey
the boards decision, and in any
event not to interfere with the
transportation service or with the
men willing to enter or continue
in service.
"The defendants, in refusing to
thority hold the labor board and
the government of the United
States in contempt"
Calling attention TO the declara
tion of the president before con
gress that "the government can
have no chart for its course except
the law" the attorney general con-
tinued;
VIII Invoke Laws.
"There are statutes forbidding
TO hinder interstate
commerce. There are laws to as
sure the highest posi- NJ safety to
railway service. 1t is my '-nose
to invoke these laws. civil and
criminal against all offenders
alike"
Legal safeguarding against such
menace in the future, he said
must be worked out when a chance
has been given to appraise the en-
tire situation,
"Wc must rcassert the doc
trinc that IN this republic the
first obligation and the first
lnniinued nm Harn Ima