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Show Labor Unions Restrained from Interfering With a Company New York, July 12. A. preliminary injunction, secured by a firm of East Cambridge. Mass., woodworkers, who have the contract for tho interior work iu the Cathedral of St John the Divine, on Mornlngside Heights, restraining re-straining the oint district council of New York of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America ' and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters Car-penters and Joiners of America and I the individual officers from interfering interfer-ing with the plaintiff company's work ' on the cathedral, has been made pei-; pei-; manent by Judge War of the United I Stttes circuit court ' The Judge's decision declares that the right of worklngnien to unite for their own protection is undoubted, and also their right to strike poace-. poace-. ablv because of grievances, j "But," says the court, "this rjght to combine to call out the workmen of I other employers ' who have no grlev-ances grlev-ances or to threaten owners, builders and architects that, their contractors i will be held up if any of their sub- j J contractors use tho complainants' ma-' ma-' terial Is quite another aHalr. , j "To take the converse of the propo- sltlon. will the defendants admit that emplovers niav tcomblne to " prevent ' any employer from using union labor? ; May the emplovers agree not to sell ! to or contract with, anyone who deals with an employer who uses cnion la- i or? . ' "Either of these propositions is de-strnctlve de-strnctlve to the right of free men to labor for. or to employ, the labor or any 0110 the laborer or employer wishes, v. If the struggle is persisted -in bv tween labor and capital to establish a contrary view, ultimately either the workmen or the employers will he reduced re-duced to a condition pf involuntary servitude." ' '. |