injunction

(noun)

A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, in some cases, under statutes, by a court of law, whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.

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Examples of injunction in the following topics:

  • The Pullman Strike

    • Olney obtained an injunction barring union leaders from supporting the strike, demanding that the strikers cease their activities or face being fired.
    • Debs and other leaders of the ARU ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called into action.

  • The Labor Wars

    • Walker went to federal court and obtained an injunction barring union leaders from supporting the boycott in any way.
    • The court injunction was based on the Sherman Anti-Trust Act which prohibited "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States. " Debs and other leaders of the ARU ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called into action.

  • Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval During the Transition to Peace

    • The public was so anti-labor union that in 1922, the Harding administration was able to procure a court injunction to destroy a railroad strike of about 400,000 workers.

  • Competing Solutions

    • Finally, the 1932 Norris-La Guardia Anti-injunction Act supported the organized labor.
    • The law curbed "yellow dog" contracts (hiring replacement workers to break strikes), curtailed the ability of federal courts to issue injunctions against non-violent labor disputes (e.g., strikes), and supported the right of laborers to organize.

  • Setbacks for Unions

    • Corporations used twice as many court injunctions against strikes than during any comparable period.
    • The Harding administration, which obtained a court injunction that destroyed the national railroad workers' strike in 1922, also helped to end a nationwide strike of about 650,000 miners.

  • The Railroad Strikes

    • Olney obtained an injunction barring union leaders from supporting the strike, demanding that the strikers cease their activities or face being fired.
    • Debs and other leaders of the ARU ignored the injunction, and federal troops were called into action.

  • The Cover-Up and the Unraveling

    • When Cox tried to get an injunction for the release of the tapes, Nixon ordered Elliot Richardson, the attorney general, to fire Cox, as it was the Justice Department that had hired him.

  • "Mother" Jones

    • Due to her involvement as a union organizer, she became known as "the most dangerous woman in America," a phrase coined by a West Virginia district attorney, Reese Blizzard, in 1902, at her trial for ignoring an injunction banning meetings by striking miners.

  • The Decline of Labor

    • In this decade, corporations used twice as many court injunctions against strikes than any comparable period.

  • The New Era

    • After a sweeping and highly controversial injunction by a federal judge against striking, picketing and other union activities, the railroad strike eventually faded away through local arrangements between workers and their employers.