Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. v. Northern Pac. R.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin
This was a petition presented by Thomas F. Oakes, Henry 0. Payne, and Henry 0. Rouse, Avho were appointed receiver^ of the projierty of the Korihern Pacific Railroad, in a suit brought against that company and others by the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, setting forth that their employés are contemplating a strike for the purpose of preventing a proposed reduction of wages, and praying that they be enjoined therefrom.
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This was a petition presented by Thomas F. Oakes, Henry 0. Payne, and Henry 0. Rouse, Avho were appointed receiver^ of the projierty of the Korihern Pacific Railroad, in a suit brought against that company and others by the Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company, setting forth that their employés are contemplating a strike for the purpose of preventing a proposed reduction of wages, and praying that they be enjoined therefrom. There was also a supplemental petition representing that the threatened strike would be ordered by the executive heads of the various organizations of railway employés, and…
1Opinion of the Court
JENKINS, Circuit Judge.
On the 19th day of December, 1893, the receivers of the defendant company presented to the court their verified petition representing that on the 17th day of August, 1893, and within two days after their appointment, and in view of the insolvent condition of the railroad company, they ordered a reduction varying from Í0 to 20 per cent, in the salaries of all employés (including the general manager and other general officers of the company) amounting to $1,200 per annum or more, which reduction was acquiesced in by the employés to whom the same applied. On the 25th of…
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