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Show INJUNCTION IS ISSUED BY JUDGE SUIT SEEKING TO RESTRAIN MEN ON WALKOUT FROM ROADS FILED BY DAUGHERTY Papers Request That Strikers Be Restrained Re-strained From Interfering in Any Way With Operators Of Railroads Chicago. The United State govern nient Friday was granted a temporary restraining order against the six shop craft unions, their officials anil members mem-bers from interfering in any way with the operation of the railroads, and their properties. The order was granted by Federal District Judge James H. Wilkerson on application of United States Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty and District Dis-trict Attorney Charles F. Clyne. The order will remain in force, until September Sep-tember 11, pending hearing on the government's gov-ernment's application for a permanent writ of injunction. "The underlying principle involved in this action," Attorney General Daugherty said in concluding his plea for the court order, "is the survival and supremacy of the government of the United States." "No union, or combination of unions can, under our law, dictate to the American union," the statement continued. con-tinued. "When the unions claim the right to dictate to the government and to dominate the American people and deprive the peopje of the necessities of life, then the government will destroy de-stroy the unions for the government of the United States is supreme and must endure." "Tomorov it will be said by some more malicious than truthful that this proceeding is intended as a death blow to the unions. In my judgment this movement (the injunction) is necessary for the projection and preservation pre-servation of the unions themselves." "So long and to the extent that I can speak for the government of the United States, I will use the power of the government within my control to prevent the labor unions of the country from destroying the open shop. "When a man in this country is not permitted to engage in lawful toil, whether he belongs to a union or not, the death knell to liberty will be sounded and anarchy will supercede organized government." , Already some 5,500 marshals have been so assigned, and in addition special spe-cial service men of the department have taken up similar work throughout through-out the country, the attorney general said. The cost of such special service, he said, already expended was more than ,$1,000,000 for the eight weeks duration dura-tion of the strike. In California alone, Mr. Daugherty said, more than $75,000,000 worth of fruit and produce already had been destroyed because of the failure of transportation systems to move the crops. In Somerset, Kentucky, he said. 25,000 cars of bituminous coal were congested in the railroad yards Friday. Fri-day. Vandals had tampered with more than 5,000 cars there, he said, and as a result the nation was faced with suffering suf-fering for want of .coal. Fifty per cent of the engines of the nation's railroads have been rendered useless by lawless activities since tie strike began, he said. The Chicago & Alton railroad has' been forced into receivership by the drain upon its resources caused by the strike. |