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Show POLICE Hill IS MM Sill Portland Attorney Would Prevent Men From Organizing. PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 2. Paul C. Dormitzer, an attorney, brought suit today agairist heads of city department depart-ment and national labor organizations, to secure an injunction preventing Portland police from forming a union under charter from the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. Dormitzer declared he was acting in his own behalf as a taxpayer, and alleged that local police have connived with pickets of the local lo-cal Meat Cutters' and Butchers' union, who are picketing nonunion markets in Portland. Among the persons and organizations against which Dormitzer brought suit is Samuel Gompers, head of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor: E. J. Stack and Otto Hartwig, secretary and president, pres-ident, respectively, of the Oregon Federation Fed-eration of Labor; all members of the local union of the Amalgamated -Meat Cutters' and Butchers' unjon, the Portland Port-land police department, Chief of Police Johnson and the city of Portland. The local police recently were granted grant-ed a charter by the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor to form a union, but the charter has not yet been used. A raise in pay was granted to the police recently. re-cently. W'ASniXGTOX. Sept. 2. The local governing authorities of the District of Columbia today notified the police that I unless they abandon the affiliation of j their recently formed union with the American Federation of Labor by niid-iiigth niid-iiigth next Monday, individual" mem- I bers who remain members of the union i after that time will be dropped from the force, on the ground of disobedience if orders. |