Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1923-07-20
VICTORY
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION MADE
PERMANENT
Final Decision in Restraining Order
Issued During ShOpmens' Strike
Last Summer
(By Federated Press)

Chlcago-Wlth the railway shop
men taking no part in the proceed
ings, Federal Judge James H. Wilker-
son has made permanent the tenn
porary Daugherty "open shop" in
junction granted by him last October.
The new order is little more than an
opportunity of further propaganda
against the railway unions by the de-
partment of justice and the news
papers. Many of the important rail
roads have settled with the unions
either formally or by the back door
with both sides making tacit conces-
sions. The roads where the strike is
still on have had the full benefit with
out success of the temporary injunc-
tion for the past nine months and the
the conditions.
sensational in its unprecedented arbi-
trary restrictions on the ordinary
liberties of citizens on strike. It for
bade not only violence in the custom
ary language of injunctions but boots
and jeers. Peaceful picketing and
lettering were banned. Union of
ficials were prohibited from using
funds for relief of strikers, from en-
couraging their members to continue
loyal to the union policy, from is
suing public statements. The drastic
order was later slightly modified and
the most far-reaching provisions were
rarely enforced.
The railway employees department,
A. F. of L., maintained a legal fight
against the order for time but when
the injunction was seen to be largely
dead letter except for propaganda
purposes against the men, the depart
ment dropped the case and Attorney
General Daugherty thus wins an
empty victory in court where no
body opposed him.
The Wilkerson ruling sets forth
that:
GAS to the damage inflicted upon
the railroads by the strike, the evil
dence shows that the total cost of the
strike on the so railroads from which
testimony was adduced, amounted to
more than $96,000,000
'The so railroads from which proof
was taken had in their employ on the
first Of July, 1922, prior to the strike
order becoming effective, approx
mately 277,000 shopmen. Of this
number, more than 90 per cent in
every instance responded to the strike
call. In some cases the number of
those answering the call was as high
as SO per cent.
"The general effect of the strike on
the performance and operations of the
so railroads from which testimony
was adduced, was to increase delays
Of freight, passenger and mail service
approximately so per cent. The gen
eral effect of the strike on the motive
power of the so railroads from which
proof was furnished, was to bring
about a general breakdown and de-
terioration of motive power resulting
in the consumption of such surplus
motive power as those railroads had
on the first of July, 1922, and in the
inability on the part of most of those
roads to perform any back shop re-
pairs during the early months of the
strike, and in limiting repairs from
then on.
"The general effect of the strike on
business and industry of the country,
as evidenced by the estimony of So
representatives of leading business
concerns of the country was a gen
eral disturbance, slowing down of
production, reduction of volume, loss
of customers and monetary losses due
to delays on the part of business
houses in receiving and obtaining raw
materials and in the shipping and
transporting of finished products.
"The so railroads from which proof
was taken employed during the period
of the strike a maximum at one time
of 1881 additional guards and
police officers"