| Show ONE SIDED BE STRAI NT its r ACCORDING to an omitta dispa dispatch tab ife pandy of the united states court bp led a restraining order of a chara character otei probably unparalleled yn yu paralleled in the later history omis prudence in anthi thin country our rader faola peruse it elyas it la is a curiosity la in its line alde it was issued on the application of a general attorney of a railroad corporation burlington missouri misso so ur and t enjoins the U P officials ag agents ets aad especially its engineers from refusing to perform their duties under auder the interstate inter state commerce law it is to be inferred that the alleged particular duties referred to are thi the repe receiving iving handling and carrying to their destination freight cars of the road or roads mads now involved in the great strike how far fair this his could be made compulsory or upon the corporation alon under the Is law referred to is not at present clear it boulde would be absurd to assume that a compulsory process would lie lu in re gard to the officers mud and agents beyond their ability to comply as the taw law never contemplates compelling a person to perform an impossible act the brotherhood having baying resolved to quiz work on OB those lines that rive give aid to the C B Q 1 if the officers and agents of the taeup U F cou conclude clude to te disregard the alternative and their engineers and firemen fimmen strike then hen the leat feat imposed 0 on n them by the re straining order would be impossibly the order has not however been made to place the U P or any oatt t corporation at a disadvantage tto the brunt of it falls upon toe engineer it from striking I 1 k will be in every way advantageous or itie corporation in question to c carrr the C B Q cars cara to destini i tion lion consequently the order Is ia ahad aha d exclusively at the eugine engineers ers should the U r P agree to take the ft eight t i the lines linea involved in toe the frike if coill engineers so go out as a consequence it is of responsibility in the premises it if la Is pw par teul c arly e engineers who areto are en joined alucia much as one may deprecate strikes and favor arbitration this thia sort 01 ol judicial method of suppressing aup tapa has nothing to commentz it it the workman tw to but little above W he position ot of a serf by B compelling him to work against his will it makes a prisoner of tila him til a the Ta elde too that he cannot use his bis vidual choice in combination wilk any fraternity with which may elect to te identity himber I 1 is a manifest absurdity as avioli ell as a flimsy subterfuge in doing so BO h only exercises an cigut TO deprive b him im of it in sucu such a a plain deprivation of the I 1 liberty of the c citi to ta make an order of thit kind kiad permanent would be bodre to are thou to whom it applied with peasie pea resentment we do not believe taa tb would submit to any such curtail curtal lint niem of their liberty the only cond sion under which compulsory isdor 1110 UM are in case of a contract bi be tween the two tw parties imma abely interested I 1 and the executed exe cutlo of the law after trial and judgment the restraining order erdei in thu ihu so absence defte ol of si a contract is decide decidedly dl anid iv we have no idea that it w will III te be m permanent unless there exists a gaw g deal more judicial insanity than man is any need for r |
