Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1902 — PICKETING IS LEGAL. [ARTICLE]

PICKETING IS LEGAL.

SO DECIDED BY JUDGE CHETLAIN OF CHICAGO. Jurist Holds, However, that Labor Unions Must Stop with Persuasion and Not Use Force—lowa Farmers Bound for Isle of Pines, ' Labor unions have a right to establish pickets in the public streets and highways for the purpose of inducing, in good faith and by peaceful means, non-union workmen to leave their places. Judge Chetlain of Chicago handed down this most important ruling the other day. It was in the ease of the petition for temporary injunction filed by Robert Tarrant against the local lodges of the International Machinists' Association and the union pickets, which have patrolled the streets near his shop, to restrain them from interfering with his workmen. Though the ruling is directly jbpposite to that of the federal court in/ a recent case, Judge Chetlain granted the injunction, but he was careful to Jexplain that it was not because Tarrant’s place was picketed, but because the pickets had used threats and possibly violence. After expressing his views on the question of the right of the employment of pickets by strikers, Judge Chetlain qualified it by saying that though pickets have the right under the law to use persuasion they have no right to resort to violence. _J2j^ FARMERB Go To CUBA. W ill Form Colony in Tale of Pines and Grow Tropical Fruits. A large party of lowa farmers sailed from New Orleans for the Isle of I’ines. off Cuba, to found a colony of tropical fruit growers. There are twenty-three families in the party and they came from Spirit Lake and Fairfield and that section of lowa. T. L. James is a leader in the big colonization scheme to locate good, thrifty American farmers hn this, ' the least known -pf all Uncle Sam's new possessions. Mr. Janies says all the lowans are going into the fruit raising business. Other large parties are soon to follow. Printing Plant in Toledo Burned. Ln Toledo fire was discovered in the basement of the Franklin Printing and Engraving Company's plant. The fire spread with such rapidity that within twenty minutes it had reached every part of the building. The fire department was —successful in its efforts to .keep the fire from spreading, but the printing company's plant was entirely destroyed. The loss on the stock and machinery,amounted to $75,000 and on the building $17,000. Wins Over Senator Gamble. At Yankton. S. D., the Circuit Court dissolved the injunction secured by United States Senator GaniKTe to~ prevenT*ET4* old law partner, C. 11. Dillon, from entering the office of the,firm or receiving its mail. Mr. Gamble asks for an accounting of the partnership and this will come lip at a regular term. Killed in Triple Collision. Because of a wrong signal at the Nineveh tower a fast east-bound Pennsylvania mail and express train ran into a slow freight ahead five miles west of Johnstown. Pa., and a few minutes later a west-bound freight crashed into the wreck, causing the death of four persons and the serious injury of at least two others. Vandals in Sheldon’s Church. The Central Congregational" Church of Topeka. Kan., the pastor of which is Rev, C, M. Sheldon, was entered by vandals and badlv defaced. Caricatures were drawn walls and furniture and books and other articles were destroyed,J Several small articles were stolen from Mr. Sheldon's study. Yachtsmen Are Missing. The captains and crews of the steamer Sparta and the yacht Parker, comprising known yachtsmen on the Ldiffi Weevil in Taking the census figures of production as a basis, it is estimated from reports of 411 correspondents that tlu/001l weevil destroyed cotton in Texas dt/ring the past season as follows: Southwest Texas, 100,000 bales; cast Texas, 7,5 w: central Texas. 45.000; coast district, 00.000; total, 242,500 bales. Toung Woman Takes Awful I,ca|>. In Cincinnati Miss Anna Clark, a do-' mestie,-dif*d as a result of a frightful jump from a Trestle, fifty feet in a frenzied rffjrs.te escape death from an ap:_. proachlng train. She was alive when picked up. but later died at the hospital. Fatal Wreck in Georgia. As the result of n head-on collision between two freight trains of the Southern Railway near Rex, Ga„ three of the train crew were killed and a number of freight ears destroyed by fire. . National Bank Robbed. The First National Bank of Glassport, Pa., was robbed the other night of $3,500. The vault was blown open by nitrogly- , cerin. The rear of the build*"? was wrecked. A package of paper money containing SIO,OOO was. overlooked by the burglars. , Wiggins to Hue Marconi. fcjtoL I- Stone Wiggins, the weather will take legal a. |.<>n to «i> wireless