Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-24
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have expired before a decision OF the
Court of Appeals could be obtained.
Without deciding upon the soundness or
unsoundness of this suggestion, Justlce
Wright eliminated the question from the
case by inserting the words from the
date of the arrival of the said respond
ents respectively at said Jail"
Justice Wright was kept busy this
morning receiving congratulations from
his associates on the bench and from the
bar generally on the legal ability shown
and the masterful manner In which the
question of contempt of court was treated
in his opinion delivered yesterday.
The order adjudginG the men In con-
tempt announces the findings Of fact. the
sentence and the allowing of the appeal.
Text of Order.
1t reads:
Now Come the parties. by their at
torneys, and the respondents. Samuel
Gompers, Frank Morrison and John
Mitchell, in their proper persons. and this
cause having been submitted to the court
on. to wit the 18th day of November,
AID. 1908. upon the petition of the COM
plainant for a rule upon the respondents
Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and
John Mitchell to show cause why they
should not be adjudged in contempt the
answers of the said respondents and the
testimony taken Hereunder and after full
argument by the solicitors of the parties.
respectively, and the same having been
duly considered by the court, 1T now finds
the fact to be
That, on or about the cath day of jan
Nary, 1908. while the injunction pen
dente lite Of December Is, 1907, was. and
was by them known to be. in force, the
said respondents published and caused
TO be widely disseminated Il paper signed
by them, and which they caused to be
accompanied by another paper, therein
referred to as an editorial from the Feb
ruary 1908, Federationist, which papers,
in violation of the express mandates of
the said injunction, made reference to
the fact that n boycott had been de-
clared against the complainant, its bust
ness and its product, and that organized
labor had asked its friends to use their
influence and purchasing power in aid
thereof, alleged that the said injunction
was an invasion of the liberty of the
press and of free speech, and declared
that it could not compel union men or
their friends to buy the Bucks stoves
and ranges" and that for this reason,
the injunction will fail to bolster up the
business Of this firm. which it claims is
so swiftly declining"
That, on or about the 2Jth day of Janu-
airy. 1908. the respondent, John Mitchell,
In like violation OF the said boycott. COM
bined with sundry persons, acting in
aid of and in conjunction with himself
and others of the defendants, in calling
attention to the said boycott, and In Civ
ing notice that any one of the 100000
members of the United Mine Workers of
america who should purchase a stove of
the conpld1nants manufacture should be
fined therefor and expelled from the said
organization if the fine were not paid
That, in April 1905, when the per-
manent Injunction of March % 1908 was
ana was by them known to be, in full
force. the respondents, Samuel Gompers
ana Frank Morrison. in violation thereof.
published in the said American Fedora
unnist, and widely disseminated letter,
s,sned by them and addressed to the
numerous state branches and central
bodies OF the defendant the American
Fedora ton of Dor requesting them TO
Bear in mind that an injunction issued
ny court in no way compels labor or
IAoors friends to buy the product of the
van Cicare Bucks Stove and Range Conn
pany Of St Louis. Fellow workers he
true and helpful to yourselves and to
rach otner Remember that united effort
IN The cause of right and justice must
triumph
And the court further finds as a fact
mat the respondents, Samuel Gompers
FRANK MORRISON and John Mitchell are
guilty of the several acts charged in nara
graphs Ii and Is of the complainant's ne
tition: that the said RESPONDENTS Gompers
ana Morrison are guilty Of the several
acts charged In the sixteenth and TWEEN
ieth paragraphs Of the said petition. that
the respondent Morrison Is guilty OF the
acts charged in the twenty-ffth para
graph of the said petition and that the
respondent Gompers is guilty of the sew
eral acts charged in the nineteenth TWEEN
ty-frst. twenty-second and twenty-third
paragraphs thereof
And. the court being fully advised In
The premises, il is by IL. this 22d day of
December AID 1908 considered that the
said respondents. Samuel Gompers Frank
Morrison and John Mitchell. are guilty of
contempt In their said disobedience of the
plain mandates of the said injunctions
And II is therefore ordered and ad-
sndo hat Inrf l.
Morrison be confined and imprisoned in
the United States jail in the District OF
Columbia for and during the period OF six
months, that the said respondent John
Mitchell be confined and imprisoned In
the said Jail for and during the reriod of
nine months. and that the respondent
Samuel Gompers be confined and i'm
prisoned in the said Jail for and during
:; period of twelve months, said impris-
nment as to each of said respondents to
take effect from the date of the arrival
OF the said respondents. respectively, at
said Jail.
From the foregoing Judgment each ~
the said respondents prays an appeal to
the Court OF Appeals Of the District of
Columbia. which is allowed. and the pen
atty OF the appeal bond fixed at 500 and
the penalty of the bail or appearances
bond Of respondent Frank Morrison is
fixed at 5000. the bail or appearance
bond Of the respondent John Mitchell is
fixed at $4,000 and the bail or appearances
bond Of the respondent Samuel Gompers
is fixed at 5000.
Haywood Expects Reversal.
DENVER. December 24.-In discussing
he decision of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia yesterday, whereby
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison We're SER
.enced to imprisonment for alleged vio-
alton of the courts injunction, William
ID. Haywood, former cretary-treasurer
Of the Western Federation of Miners. but
aaV featuring in the cause of socialism