Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-12
STRIKE INJUNCTION
OF RAIL UNION MEN
MADE PERMANENT
Final Decree Confirms Order
Issued in 1922-WaIkout
Cost Millions.
JUDGE SAYS EVIDENCE
SHOWS MUCH VIOLENCE
Expresses Amusement That Such
War fare Could Be Carried on
in United States.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. July IA final decree
making permanent the temporary in
junction obtained by the United
States government in federal court
here October 5, 1922, against the
railway employees department OF the
American Federation Of Labor. It's
officers and others, restraining them
from interfering in any manner with
operation of railroads during the
shipments strike, was entered today
by Judge James H. Wilkerson of the
United States District Court.
The decree making permanent the
injunction, which is considered the
most wides pread restraining order
ever obtained. affects approximately
400, 900 railroad employees and officers
Of the shop crafts concerned in the
strike. The injunction was applied
for by Harry NJ. Daugherty, United
| States Attorney General, on Septem :
i Der !, 1922, two months after the IN
ception of the strike. The temporary
restraining order was handed down
on October 5, 1922.
Strike still On.
Theoretically the strike still is in
effect. The shopmen left their posts
on July /, 1922, when the United
States Railroad Labor Board ordered
a cut in their wages, effective on that
date. The strike continued actively
for more than two months. during
which, according to evidence intro
duced by the government. widespread
assault and intimidation OF men VINO
had taken places of striking shopmen
occurred In some instances troops
were called out and IN , 6the rai,s sps'
The men returned to work In sep
TENDER on the basis OF what was
known as the Baltimore agreement,
which was entered into by thirty-one
ma jor railroads. .,
seniority, which was the main bone
Of contention after a month OF the
strike, to commission to decfde. the
shopmen accepted the wage reduction
ordered by the Labor Board.
of the American Federation Of Labor
as a body Is now restrained perma :
nently from interfering with the
operations of the nations carriers,
as is Bert NJ. Jewell. president OF the
department; ]. F. McGrath, vice pres
ident, and John Scott. secretary and
treasurer; the International Brother
hood of Black smiths. Drop Forgers
and Helpers and it's president. James
w. Kline; International Alliance of
Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers
and President ]. J. Hynes; Interna-
tional Brotherhood of Boiler Makers.
Iron Shipbuilders and Helpers OF
America and President j. A. Frank
lin; Brotherhood of Railway Carmen
Of America and President Martin F.
Ryan; International Association of
Machinists and President William H.
Johnston and E. C. Dawson. grand
tional Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers and President James P.
Noonan and numerous other system
declarations and the presidents and
secretaries thereof
Cost 500 1000 900.
The cost of the shipments strike
on the fifty railroads from which
evidence was adduced amounted to
approximately s96,501.376. according
to government testimony. This
figure does not include damages to
property, loss of business incurred
increased cost of doing business or
loss of claims for damages resulting
from the strike.
The Department of Justice ex-
penses amounted to s1,922,6
through the hiring of additional
United States deputies and the incur
ring of other expenses directly trace
able to the strike. The strike caused
temporary suspension of 706 mail
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