Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1908-12-31

washington, Dec. 24.-IWelV
months in Jail for Samuel Gompers
president; nine months for JOIN
Mitchell, one of the vice-presidents
and six months for Frank Morrison
secretary, all of the American Fede
ration of Labor, was the sentence
imposed by Justice Wright of The
supreme court of the District oil
Columbia today for contempt Of
court in violating an order enjoining
them from placing on the owe
don't patronize" list the Buck Stove
and Range company of st. Louis.
All of the defendants were in
court when sentence was pronoun-
ced, and notice of appeal to the Dis
trict of Columbia appellate court
was filed, Gompers being released
on SIS, 900 bonds, Mitchell on $4,000
and Morrison on $4,000.
Judge Wright's decision was a
scathing arraignment. Every
where - the court said, "all over,
within the court and out, utter,
rampant, insolent defiance is herald
ed and proclaimed; unrefned insult,
coarse affront, measures the liti-
gants' conception of the tribunals
due. wherein his case is pending"
The federation's alleged violation
of Judge Gould's recent mandamus
has attracted wide attention. The
Buck company's prosecution of the
officials of the federation began in
1907. The original action
was a test case, wherein it was
sought to enjoin the labor unions
from using the unfair and "weI
don't patronize" lists in their fight
against firms and individuals.
Justice Gould of the supreme
court of the District of Columbia is
sued an injunction which later was
made permanent forbidding the
of the company's name
IN these lists. President Gompers in
an editorial in the Federationist of
January last made known his inten-
ton not to obey the courts order,
contending that the injunction is
sued was in derogation of the rights
Of labor and an abuse of the injunc
tive power of the courts.
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
subsequently were cited for con-
tempt and this phase of the case has
been before the court for many
the proceedings taking the
form of hearing of testimony be-
fore an examiner and many argu-
ments.
Whether President Roosevelt will
take any action, as he has been urg-
ed to do in kilograms received from
different labor organizations
throughout the country in connec-
ton with Judge Wright's decision,
has not yet been determined, it was
at the White house.
Judge Wright's decision was a !
scathing denunciation of the defen-
dants. He recited the conditions an
feeding the injunction and referred
to the fact that for 25 years the
Buck plant had operated as 10
hour shop and always had maintain
ed an open shop. He also spoke of
the numerical strength of the Amer
can Federation of Labor with it's
J. .0OO,0 900 members and of it's repeat
ed endorsement of the boycott of |
he Buck Stove & Range company, |
through the American Federationist |
he federation's official organ.
speeches by the defendants, letters, |
etc.
In passing sentence on the defen-
lants the court said:
1t would seem not inappropriate
or such penalty as will serve to
letter others from following after
uch outlawed examples; as will |
ierve physically to impose obedience
,ven though late; as will serve to
indicate the orderly power of judi