The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-02-18
Attorney General, Gompers,
Mitchell and Morrison
Send Letters.
SENTENCED MEN WARM.
In Their Gratitude for the In
terest and Sympathy
Shown.

Lie SeutenceS Imposed upon samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison by Judge Wright of the
District of columbia, for alleged vi
olations of an Injunction, resulted in
a collection of interesting re-
sponsesfrom the gentlemen named
and from the department of justice
at Washington.
The protest sent to President
Roosevelt brought the following let
ter from the department of the at
torney general of the United States
TO the secretary OF the conncil. w.
'R. Talkington:
Your resolution addressed to the
President, relative to the cases Of
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, has
been referred to this department..
and will receive due consideration. !"
!, Mr.. GomDers sent the following
letter toSthe Trades Council:
Permit me to thank you for your
message. Many other friends. fell
low workers and sympathizers In all,
walks of life, have also written and
teiegraphed me, and while / would
like to reply to each one. Yeti find
II impossible to convey in letter
all that is in my mind to say, and.
therefore / am making this ac-
acknowledgement of your message and
to: say to YOU that from the many
communications OF this character
which have been sent to me. i be-
lieve I am right in saying that the
great mass OF liberty-loving Amer
lean people are with John. Mitchell,
Frank Morrison and me. at this cruz
ciai time, in the effort we have
made and are making to maintain
the principle OF justice and right
and the Constitutional guarantee Of
the freedom OF speech and of the
press. rs
Regardless OF personal results,
We are confident that the principles
for which we contend, and for which
We may suffer. will be. restored,
maintained, md permanently guar.
anteed to all our people. the work
ers included. Temporary inconyen-
fence or suffering of any one, or Of
a few men. is OF lesser Importance
than.the establishment of equal JUS
tice ito all the people of our Re-
public.
Under the circumstances, and I'M
view of many duties. YOU will real
lie the impossibility OF my dealing
more fully with this subject in this
communication"
John Mitchell wrote as follows:
Il have the resolution adopted by
the Central Trades Council of
clarksburs on January %. which
You have so kindly sent me. II
thank you and beg to ask that you
express to the delegates to the Cen
trail Trades Council my appreciation
of the interest and sympathy indi-
Gated by their resolution
Frank Morrison. who is secretary
of the American Federation of La
Dor, sent the following letter:
II beg to acknowledge the receipt
!. of the copy of resolutions which you
enclosed. adopted by the Trades
Council relative to the decision OF
Judge Wright, and assure you We
appreciate the loyal sentiments en-
pressed therein. hope that the
particular rights for which labor is
now CONFERENCE.-The right of free
speech and the right of free press
can he retained without any I'M
due injury. punishment or incon-
venience to any one. We believe We
are right. We have some hopes that
the higher courts may reverse the
position taken by the lower court.
But II they do not. labor's hosts,
must contribute their efforts with
increased zeal to secure an amend
ment to the Sherman antitrust law
taking labor from under its proyis-
lion and the enactment of the Pear
re anti-iniunction bill. so that in
case of strike or lockout injunctionsI
cannot be Issued against the mem-
bers. restraining them, from doing
the things they have the right to
ldo.n
All the letters from the sentenced
men closed with best wishes for the
! Trades Council and its cause.
MRS. cooDsIAN's MOTHER DEAD.
Sam Henderson. implicated In the
attack5on Jesse Watkins by Italians
Saturday night, was arrested late
yesterday afternoon at Dixie BY