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7JUDGE AGAIN COMES THROUGH WITH STRONG INJUNCTION THAT SLAPS LABOR IN THE FACE Judge Baldwin, who proved him self such a good friend to the bosses when he handed down the anti picketing injunction against the waitresses when the girls were fight t ing for a- decent wage and respect able working conditions, has again some to bat for Big Business. This lime he seems even to out done his previous inti-picketing or der. In response to an appeal from Dudley Taylor, Big Business lawyer who usually seeks Judge Baldwin when he wAnts to knock the labor unions, he granted an injunction to the .Torres, -Wold & Co., which does about everything . but prohibit the striking machinists from living in Chicago. This latest injunction precents the pickets of the strikers frdm even being seen on the routes traveled by the strikebreakers in going1 to and from- their homes and the Torres, Wold nlant It prevents the men who are .bat tling for living wages to make any advertisement of the fact that Tor res, Wold & Co. are trying to crush union labor and are replacing the unionists with underpaid non-union men, ! It prevents the union men from . peacefully reasoning with the strike breakers so that they might point out to them the harm they are doing J the workers in enabhngvBig Business . to go along and pay- low wages. Among other commands to- the . union men set forth in the injunction m are the following: , They shall not watch the Torres Wold plant, its employes or those who approach or leave its place of business or who seek to enter its-employment or who seek to do business " with the -complainant They shall not attempt by pay ment' or promise of money, employ ment or. other reward to. induce' the complainant's employes to leave their . employment They shall nqt attempt to. create or enforce any boycott against the company's employes, or any of them, or attempt to induce people in their neighborhood or elsewhere not to deal with them. They shall not send any circulars or other communications to custom ers or other persons who might deal or transact business' with the com pany, for the purpose of dissuading suGh persons from so doing. o o MESSINGER'S . TO SIGN WITH CHI. FEDERATION OF LABOR Messinger's restaurants were to day to be unionized byan. agreement to be signed by Messingr and the Chicago Waiters'- ass'n. The union got busy when the In dustrial Workers of the World called a strike Ivesterday. Messinger was reluctant to sign up with the" i: W. W., but was willing to sign" with the C. P. of L. union, so the waiters' union put its men into the restaurants late yes terday. Messinger- agrees to grant a 10 hour day with one day a week of. Wages are to be: Cooks, $14; wait ers and counter men, $10; porters and dishwashers, $8 and $9. The waiters' union agreed to take into its ranks and put back to work all of the men who yesterday went out on the strike the. L W. W. called. Not all of the men accepted the of fer, everal I. W. W. pickets were ar rested last night Tannery workers on strike at three big plants are standing solid in their demand for better wages and hours. Federation of Men Teachers, Wom en Teachers and High School Teach ers dine at City club at 6 p. m., FrL Speakers: Edgar Lee Mastersr John Pitzpatrick and Aid. Rodriguez.