Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1909 — LABOR INJUNCTION DENIED [ARTICLE]

LABOR INJUNCTION DENIED

Court Refuses to Stop Picketing of Plate Mills In Indiana. Goshen, Ind., July 27.—The petition of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company for an injunction against its striking employes was denied in the United States circuit court here. Judge Baker based his decision, he said, upon the fact that the affidavits of the company did not make any specific allegations against any of the defendants and that it had not been shown that the defendants had attempted to interfere with the freedom of the petitioner in the labor market. The court held that the strikers had a right to organize and leave their employers in a body and that the strikers could maintain a system of picketing so long as they did not interfere with the employer’s access to the labor market. , Elwood authorities testified that the strike had been orderly.