Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-25
Judge Jackson Says Employees Can
Quit Work at Any Time.
USE OF THE INJUNCTION.
IL IL 10 Prevent Wrongs aud Injuries
10 Persons and Their Property
To ReiDstate Rights

Parkersburg, W. Va, July A.-Judge
Jackson, rendering his decision in the
Mother" Jones contempt cases today
held that all the defendants had ylo-
lated the injunction and were guilty Of
contempt Of court,
Sentence in the case Of Mother"
Jones was postponed until this after
noon. In the case of four foreigners
who cannot speak English, sentence
was postponed until the arrival of
their interpreter.
Thomas Haggerty was given 20 days
in jail and the other five defendants
60 days each.
The opinion supported the right Of
the courts to use injunction and the
flght OF laborers TO work when they
Wish TO do so, without Interference
from organized labor or any other
source.
Judge Jackson in his decision said:
What Is an injunction? Is 1t the
exercise of an arbitrary power by the
courts or the country or is II a power
that Is recognized from a very early
date as one Of the branches Of ad-
ministrative justice?
" answer this question by affirming
that the ordintry use of the writ Of
injunction Is to prevent wrongs and
injuries to persons, to their property
or to reinstate the rights Of persons to
their property when they have been
deprived of II.
1T is the most efficient II not the
only, remedy TO stay irreparable in
jury and 20 punish those who disohey
the order OF court granting the writ
y do not question the right OF en-
ployes Of this company TO quit work at
any time they desire 20 do So unless
there Is a contract relation between
them and the employer which should
control their rights 20 quit
AT the same time, | do not recog-
nize the right OF an employer to CO.
cree the employees to continue their
work when they desire to quit
While | recognize the right OF all
labOrers to combine for the purpose Of
protecting all their lawful rights, do
not recognize the right Of laborers TO
consplre together TO compel employees
who are not dissatisfied with their
work In the mines to lay down their
picks and 10 quit their work. without
just or proper reason therefor mere
~ to crafty professional set Of
agitatorS, organizers and walking
delegates who roam all over the coun-
try as agents for some combination,
who are vampires that live and fat
ten on the honest labor Of the coal
miners Of the country and who are
husy-bOdies creating dissatisfaction
among a class OF people who are quiet
we'll disposed and who do not want to
be disturbed by the unceasng aglta-
tion Of this class of people.
DEFENDANT AGITATORs.
I'm the case We have under consid-
GRAFTON these defendants are known as
professional agitators, organizers and
walking delegates, They have moth
ing in common with the people, who
are employed In the mine Of the
Clarkburg Fuel company.
'"rhe strong arm Of the court Of
equity Is invoked In this case, not TO
suppress the right Of free speech but
to restrain and inhibit these defend
ants, whose only purpose is to bring
about strikes, by trying TO coerce peo-
pie who are not dissatisfied with the
terms Of their employment which re-
suits IN inilicting injury and damage 20
their employers as wei as to the en-
ployes,
THE right OF a citizen to labor for
wages that he is satisfied with, Is
right protected by law and Is entitled
to the same protection as free speech,
and should be better protected than
the abuse of free speech IN which the
organizers and agitators indulge in
trying to produce strikes"
The court then referred TO Mother"
Jones speech near the KinniNnnlck
mines, saying her utterances were the
outgrowth of the sentiments OF those
who believe in communism and an
archy.
"The evidence showed that Mother
Jones had called the miners slaves;
said she did not care anything for in
functions, that II was duty 10 urge
the men at work TO lay down their
tools and advise the men To strike
that the Judge was a hireling of the
coal company and the coal operators
were all robbers,
"She said in her speech TO pay no
attention TO Judge jackson or 10 the
court, but just make the miners lay
down their tools and come out.
1T Is true" said the court, that
Mother Jones denied some Of the
statements OF the witness, but her de-
NAL was not positive, but eQuiyocal"
The court, after reciting other acts
In violation of the injunction, con-
clded with;
II reach the conclusion that the de-
PENDANTS IN this case who We're served
with notice of this injunction have vio-
lated II, and have treated with con-
tempt the order Of this court"
Judge Jackson suspended judgment
IN the case OF Mother" Jones for con-
tempt He said that she had been
found guilty Of contempt. but as she
was posing as a martyr, he would not
send her to jail or allow her to force
her way into JAN
He said he would hold conviction
over her. and n she again violated the
injunction he would sentence her heay-
lily.
Thomas Haggerty got 30 days and
FIVE others got co days each In the
Parkersburg Jail. The Hungarans de-
clared they had not understood the in