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PERMANENT INJUNCTION ASKED. •GIGANTIC PLOT ALLEGED. SABOTAGE AND TERRORISM. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, September 11. The Attorney-General, Mr H. M. Daugherty, presented a petition to the Federal Court at Chicago asking that the temporary injunction granted the railway strikers be made permanent. He introduced a mass of evidence supporting charges?of a gigantic plot of sabotage and terrorism on Die part of the strikers, including, it is said, 25 cases of murder, tampering with 60,000 railway cars, burning 14 , bridges, and damaging many locomotives. The Attorneys representing the strikers suffered a rebuff when Judge Wilkerson, who granted the temporary injunction, rejected their.request lo be allowed to present arguments on a motion to dismiss the injunction before Mr Daugherty was allowed to argue for a permanent injunction, Mr Keller, a member for Minnesota in the House of Representatives, introduced a motion calling for the impeachment of Mr Daugherty on the ground that the injunction violates the constitution.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15041, 14 September 1922, Page 7
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