Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-25
: MOTHER Jones' CASE
Judge Jackson's Ruling in Find.
ing Labor Agitator Guilty OF
Contempt.
Sentence Is Suspended in the
Woman's Case to Prevent
Posing as Martyr.
An Interesting Lecture on the
Subject Of Injunctions by
the Judge.

| Parkersburg, w. Va, July 25.-Judge
jackson in the United States district
! court held Mother Jones and seven
other organizers of the United Mine
Workers and a number OF Hungarian
miners guilty of contempt i'll violating
! passed sentence on them of from sixty
Ito ninety days in Jail. with the eX-
tception of Mother" Jones and the
Hungarians.
| The occasion had been anticipated
with anxiety; so that many women as
we'll as attorneys, operators and min
ers were present. 1t was currently re-
ported that the house of Judge Jack
| son had been guarded for several
nights, and that guards were in the
court house.
1t is stated that this was done with
out the knowledge of the judge. There
was intense interest shown by every
one as Judge Jackson earnestly read
his decision.
Mother Jones was surrounded by
the other defendants and Vice Pres
ident Lewis, of the United Mine Work
ers was present with them.
The defendants We're surprised with
both the decision and the sentences
and expressed themselves bitterly.
Counsel for the imprisoned miners
are preparing for habeas corpus pro-
ceedings in the United States circuit
court of appeals at Richmond, Virginia,
alleging that Judge Jackson had no
Jurisdiction in the cases of Mother
Jones and her associates.
John j. Coniff, of Wheeling, and one
of the counsel of the miners will leave
at once for Richmond to present ha-
beas corpus papers. He says the pro-
ceedlngs here were brought not by the
Clarksburg Fuel company, but by
bondholder and for that reason an
outsider will be asked.
While the sentences given today are
considered severe it is anticipated that
Judge Jackson will deal firmly with
w. b. Wilson, secretary of the United
Mine Workers who has also been held
in contempt but who is at his head
quarters in Indianapolis.
District Attorney Blizzard today
filed an affidavit that Secretary w. Is.
Wilson violated the restraining order of
June 10, by making an int1ammatory
speech at Clarksburg. July Z, and an
other at Fairmont. July s, and asked
the court for his arrest.
Judge Jackson made the order that
Wilson be arrested and brought within
the jurisdiction OF his court.
Judge jackson 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 conviction
over her, and if she again Violated the
injunction he would sentence her heaN-
lily. Thomas Haggerty got ninety days,
and five others got sixty days in the
Parkersburg Jail.
The Hungarians. who said they had
not understood the Injunction We're re-
leased upon the promise not to violate
it again.
The Austro- Hungarian consul at
New York was here to represent them.
Including some arrested later, there
I
the same manner.
In his decision Judge Jackson said:
What is an injunction? l answer
this question by affirming that the
ordinary use of the writ Of injunction
is to prevent wrongs and injuries TO
persons and their property or to rein
state the rights of persons TO their
property when they have been deprived
of it. 1t is the most efficient, if not the
only remedy, to stay irreparable in
jury and to punish those who disobey
the order of q court granting the
writ.
In the language of the text writer's.
it is prohibitory and restitutory.
"A similar writ to this was in use in
the days of the Roman empire, and has
always been in use in England from the
foundation of the commend law. 1t
has been in use in this country since
the organization of the government.
1T is a mistaken idea to suppose that
the courts of this country abuse this
writ. In my long experience on the
bench can not recall single occasion
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
icism is so obviously unjust to the
courts that it is unnecessary to enter
into defense of them.
II do not question the right of the
employees of this country to quit work
at any time they desire to do 50. unless
there is contract relation between
them 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 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 all laborers
to conspire together TO compel en-
ployes who are not dissatisfied with
their work in The mines to lay down
their picks and to quit their work with
out a just or proper reason therefor
merely to crafty a professional set of
agitators, organizers and walking dele
gates who roam all over the country as
agents for some combination, who are
vampires that live and fatten on the
honest labor of the coal miners of the