Laredo Weekly Times

Chicago, July 12--The final decree making permanent the temporary injunction obtained by the United States government in the federal court here October 5, 1922, against the railway employees department of the American Federation of Labor, its officers and others, restraining them from interfering in the operation of railroads in any manner during the shopmen's strike, was entered today by Judge Wilkerson. It is considered the most widespread restraining order ever obtained in the history of litigation. It affects approximately one million employees and officers of the shop crafts concerned in the strike. Legally, the strike still is in effect.

The shopmen left their posts of duty July 1, 1922, when the Railroad Labor Board ordered a cut in wages. They returned to work in September on the basis of what is known as the Baltimore agreement, entered into by representatives of the major railroads. The agreement left the question of seniority, the main bone of contention after the first month of the strike, to the commission to decide. The shopmen took the cut in wages ordered by the board.

Judge Wilkerson, in making the injunction permanent, said it seemed almost incredible that warfare of this kind described in the record of this case should have been waged in this country. "He said the strike was more than a controversy between employer and employee, its avowed purpose being to cripple and destroy interstate commerce."


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