Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1897 — DEBS IS ENJOINED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DEBS IS ENJOINED.

Monongah Coke and Coal Company Call* Upon the Law. Upon the application of James Sloan, Jr., of Baltimore, a stock holder in the Monongah Coal and Coke Cdmpany, made by ex-Gov. Fleming, hia counsel. Judge Jackson, ir. the United States Court at Parkersburg, W. Va., granted a sweeping injunction restraining Eugene V. Debs and his associates from in any wa/interfering with or molesting the management or the conducting of the property of the Monongah Coke and Coal Company or its employes, either by trespassing upon the property of the company or approaching

thereto or inciting its employes to strike or interfering in any manner whatever, either by word or deed, in thvcompany’s affairs. The text of the writ covers everything that cnn possibly be construed into an infringement of rights of corporations, and practically prevents all future agitation in the vicinity of the Monongah mines. At Pittsburg Wednesday, the interest in tht* miners' strike centered on the preliminary hearing before Justice Semmons of Turtle Creek of District President Patrick Dolan, District Secretary William Warner, former National Vice-President Cameron Miller and the other miners' officials who were charged by Superintendent Thomas B. De Armit with riot. Attorney William Kaufman, representing the New York mid Cleveland Gns Coni Company, tried to bring as evidence the injunction issued by the Supreme Court against the miners’ leaders during the De Armit strike of 18(14. At thatAiine Judge Stowe of Allegheny County refused the injunction, but on the company's appeal to the higher court the latter granted it on n technicality. Attorney Kaufman argued that us the injunction denied the miners the right to congregate on the public highways the fact that they did congregate there was unlawful. Attorney William Brennan, representing the striking miners, claimed that unlawful assembly was denied by the statutes, mid no injunction, even by the Supreme Court, could nullify it. Justice Semmons refused to allow the injunction to be used as evidence and Attorney Kaufman shook his fist under the judge’s nose. For n few minutes there was great excitement. The testimony of Sheriff Lowery was favorable to the strikers. He said when he asked them to disperse nt thv center school house Saturday they did so. Superintendent De Arndt's testimony was not damaging.

EUGENE V. DEBS.