Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-07-25
HOT DOSE FOR WILSON
Judge Jackson Orders Arrest
of National Mineworkers
Official.
MOTHER" JONES tJNMARTY RED
Petersburg Judge Refuses to Let
Her Break Into Jail"-Other Labor
Leaders Sentenced to Prison-Judge
Roasts Union Officials.

Parkersburg, w. Va, July 25.-
There was intense interest in the
crowded room of the United States
district court yesterday when Judge
Jackson began reading his decision
declaring Mother" Mary Jones and
seven organizers of the United Mine
Workers and four Hungarians to be
guilty of contempt in disregarding his
Injunction of June 10, against holding
a meeting or creating a demonstra
ton at or near the Pinnickinnick
mine of the Clarksburg Fuel company
or near the residences of miners al
work there.
Sentences were imposed as follows:
Thomas Haggerty, so days in jail;
William Morgan, Bernard Rice, Peter
Wilson, William Blakely and George
Bacon, 80 days each.
Mother" Jones sentence and those
Of albert Repake, Joseph and George
Reoski, Thomas Laskayish and Steve
Teonike, Hungarians, were passed
Until the afternoon session.
Judge Jackson said he recognized
the right Of laborers to combine tic
protect their lawful rights, and con.
tinued, in part:
Portion - What Judge Said.
The defendants in this case are
not laborers in the mines and have
nc connection with them whatever
Their mission here is to foment trou.
lie and create dissatisfaction among
the employees in the coal mines, pro
ducing strikes which tend greatly to
damage and injure the business of the
employers. The ST. ong arm of the
curt of equity is invoked on this
case, not to suppress the right of free
speech, but to restrain and inhibit
these defendants whose only purpose
il to bring about strikes by trying to
coerce people who are dissatisfied
with the terms of their employment,
which results in INJECTING injury and
Damage to their employers, as well as
the employees.
THE abuse of free speech inspired
the anarchists and assassin to take
the life of our late beloved president,
May | not respectfully ask the ques.
ton whether freedom of speech
should not be restricted by statutes
20 suppress seditious sentiments? In
the case under consideration there is
no adequate remedy at law in fact
the law furnishes no satisfactory
remedy against irresponsible timer
ent professional agitators, unless the
powers of the court Of equity are in
voked.
THE right of a citizen to labor for
wages that he is satisfied with is a
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 utterances of Mother Jones
in her public address at or near Pin
mckinnick mines on the goth day OF
June, 1902, should not emanate from
:. citizen of this country who believes
i'll its institutions"
Mother Jones Not Sentenced.
Judge Jackson suspended judgment
in the case of Mother Jones" for con
tempt. He stated that she had beer
found guilty of contempt but as she
had been posing as a martyr, he would
not send her to Jail or allow her tc
force her way into Jail "
He said ne would hold conviction
over her and if she again violated the
injunction. he would sentence her
heavily.
Thos. Haggerty got 80 days and
tive others got go days each in the
Parkersburg jail Two Hungarians
claimed that they had not I'M
derstood the injunction and were re-
leased on a promise not to violate it
again. The Austro-Hungarian con.
sui, at New York, was here to repre-
sent them. Including some arrested
later. there were "a Hungarians re
leased in the same manner.
1t was currently reported that thsI
house Of Judge Jackson had been
guarded for several nights, and that
guards were in the court room II
was stated that this was done with
out the knowledge of the Judge
There was intense interest shown by
everyone as Judge Jackson read his
decision.
Prisoners Attorneys Will Appeal.
Counsel for the imprisoned miners
were preparing for habeas corpus pro
ceedings in the United States circuit
court of appeals at Richmond, Va.
Judge Jackson has no juris
Glction in the cases of Mother
Jones and her associates.
John J. Coniif, of Wheeling, and one
o. the counsel of the miners will leave
at once for Richmond to present
habeas corpus papers. He says the
here were brought. not
by the Clarksburg Fuel company, but
by a bondholder. and for that reason
IN custer viii be asked
While the sentences given yester
day are considered severe, it was an
ticipared that Judge Jackson will deal
firmly with WI. B. Wilson, secretary
II the United Mine Workers, who has
also been held in contempt, but who
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