The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-08-01
WON'T GO TO JAIL.
Sentence Suspended in Mothe,
Jones Case--Court De-
tends Injunctions.

Petersburg, w. Va, July 26.-Judge
jackson suspended sentence in the case
of Mother" Jones, whom, with others,
he found guilty of contempt of court IN
that she violated an injunction forbid
ding anybody to incite miners to quit
work against their own judgment.
He stated 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 Jail"
He said he would hold the conviction
over her, and If she again violated the
Injunction he would sentence her heav-
ly. e
Thomas Haggerity got ninety days
and five others got sixty days each in
The Parkersburg jail.
The Hungarians, who said they had
aot understood the injunction, were
released upon the promise not to vio-
ate it again.
The Austro- Hungarian consul at
New York was here to represent them.
Including some arrested later, there
n the same manner.
In his decision Judge jackson
said:
What is an Injunction. I answer
his question by affirming that the Or
binary use of the writ Of injunction is
20 prevent wrongs and injuries to per-
sons and their property, or to reinstate
The rights of persons to their property
| when they have been deprived Of it.
remedy, to stay irrenarable injury and
| % punish those who disobey the order
| II the court granting the writ
| 1T Is a mistaken idea to suppose
| that the courts Of this country abuse
| this writ. In my long experience on
The bench canot recall single occa-
sion when any court, either federal or
state, ever abused it in what is known
| as strike questions. 1t is true that our
courts have been criticised severely by
persons who are inimical to the use of
| it and have denounced the courts for
| governing by Injunction. But this crit
tcism is SO obviously unjust to the
! courts that 1t Is unnecessary to enter
nto a defense of them.
| Il do not question the right Of the
4 employees of this company to quit work
| 1t any time they desire to do so, unless
here Is a contract relation between
hem and the employer, which should
! control their right to quit. At the
same time do not recognize the right
Of an employer to coerce the employees
! 20 continue their work when they de-
| IRE to quit.
While recognize the right Of all
aborers to combine for the purpose Of
| protecting all of their lawful rights, !
10 not recognize the right Of laborers
l % conspire together to compel en-
2loyes who are not dissatisfied with
their work in the mines to lay down
heir picks and to quit their work with
nut q just or proper reason therefor,
merely tc crafty a professional set of
igitators, organizers and walking dele
rates, and roam over the country as
l To- r,<>x, ~,
! vampires that live and fatten on the
honest labor of the coal miners Of the
country and who are busybodies Gre
tting dissatisfaction among a class OF
/ people who are quiet, well disposed,
| ind do not want to be disturbed by the
1nceasing agitation of this class Of
people. In the case we have under con-
1 liberation these defendants are known
is professional agitators, organizers
,othing in common with the people
who are employed In the mines Of the
.larksville Fuel company. =
The strong arm Of the court OF
:quity is involved in this case, not to
uppress the right Of free speech, but
% restrain and inhibit those defend
lnts whose only purpose is to bring
4 ibout strikes by trying to coerce peo-
,le who are not dissatisfied with the
I ELLIS VI luelI tlIiployIIleiAt1 WHICH re-
ults in inficting injury and damage
% their employers, as well as to the
employees.
"The right Of a citizen to labor for
wages that he Is satisfied with is a
light protected by law, and is entitled
o the same protection as free speech,
md should be better protected than the
Ibuse of free speech, in which the or
sanizers and agitators indulge in try
6 to produce strikes"