Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893. Excerpt: ... OPINION OF JUDGE BILLINGS, OF THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT AT NEW ORLEANS, IN GRANTING AN INJUNCTION RESTRAINING THE WORKINGMEN'S AMALGAMATED COUNCIL FROM INTERFERING WITH INTER-STATE COMMERCE. CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, KASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA. THE UNITED STATES VS. The Workingmen's Amalgamated Council Of New Orleans, La., Et Al. March 26, 1893. This cause is submitted upon an application for an injunction on the bill of complaint, answer and numerous affidavits and exhibits. The bill of complaint in this case is filed by the United States under the act of Congress, entitled an act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraint and monopolies, United States Statutes, vol. 26, p. 209. The substance of the bill is that there is a gigantic and widespread combination of the members of a multitude of separate organizations for the purpose of restraining the commerce among the several States and with foreign nations. It avers that a disagreement between the warehousemen and their employes and the principal draymen and their subordinates had been adopted by all the organizations named in the bill, until by this vast combination of men and of organizations it was threatened that unless there was an acquiescence in the demands of the subordinate workmen and draymen, all the men in all of the defendants' organizations would leave work and would allow no work in any department of business; that violence was threatened and used in support of this demand, and that this demand included the interstate and foreign commerce which flows through the City of New Orleans. The bill further states that the proceedings on the part of the defendants had taken such a vast and ramified proportion that in consequence of the threats of the defendants the ...
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