The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-03-12
BUT SHALL NOT USE NAME OF
BL1KS STOVE CO. IN THE
"UNFAlR" LIST.
IA SWEEPING DECISION
Handed Down BY D. Of c. Court of
Appeals--oould's Decree Starts
Era Of judicial Tyranny,
SAYS Judge Robb.

washington, ~. ", MdffH llF-~l ne
| American Federation of Labor here.
after may freely refer to the boycott
against the Paieks Stove and Range
company. Of st, Louis. except by Ia
ansion in the we don't patronize"
| list
This, in substance, of widespread
| importance to the labor world, the
| manufacturers and newspapers gen
orally is the sweeping decision handed
lown today by the court of appeals
| of the District of Columbian the in
| junction case of the Bucks Stove AMI
Range company against the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor which has
been before the courts of the District
of Columbia in various phases fer
months.
In recent decision by Jus'ise
Gould Of the supreme court Of the
District of Columbia the American
Federation of Labor and its officers
Gompers. Mitchell and Morrison aud
others. were enioined from conspir
| Ing to boycott the Bucks Stove and
Range company, and from printing cr
publishing. or distributing, through
Tho mails or otherwise, any cory Of
the 'Federationist" or other rnhlie1-
tion referring to complainanf. It's
business or product In the we don't
patronize" or unfair" list
The decision today. which was by
Justice Robb, modifies and affirms
the decree of Jusice Gould. The
court holds the decree should he
mcdfed to the exent that it shall
only restrain the defendants from
"onspifing to boycott the business of
the company, or threatening or lie
claring any boycott or ags'sti0g
! therein. and from printing the name
of complainant, Its business or. pro
laetisn In thes "wc@aoR't patrcnize"
9r unfair list of the defendants III
fiirtherance of any boycott against
The complainant's business or PRO
'iuct aud frem- Interfering whatever
in print or otherwise with the com
claimants business as IN the 1--WE
don't patronize" or unfair" Est in
furtherarce of a boycott
The court holds that the defend
ants cannot be restrained from all
publications referring to the Bucks
Stove and Range company. but only
such as are made in furtherance of
an Illegal boycott In a partially dis
Senting opinion In which he saws
that he is entirely to concur entirely
f, ta IA nf Doh
Justice Shepard expressed the op'n-
ion that the decree should be modi
ned 80 as to restrain acts only by
which other persons have been or
may be coerced into ceasing from
business relations with the Bucks
stove AMI Range company. but so as
not to restrain the publication Of the
name of that company In the I'VE
| lon't patronize" column of the Ameri.
| ran Federdtionist, no matter what
the object of such publication may be
suspected or believed to be-
Justice vanorsdel concurred fully
in the conclusion reached by RObb,
but by a different process of reason
ing.
| The sustaining of such decree by
q court Of equity would violate the
| constitutional rights Of citizens, says
| Vanorsdel referring to Goulds in
junction dcree. at would mark the
beginning of an era of judicial
tyranny hv that branch of the gov.
eminent charged with the duty of
protecting the citizen in his coasttu-
| 'ional or legal rights"
| He further says that the clause in
the constitution guaranteeing free
speech and free press forbids govern
ment censorship in all forms 1t
would be difficult, he added, "to con
"eive of a more effective method of
establishing government censorship
than through the writ of Injunction. -
The dissenting opinion of Chief
'ustice Shepard" said Gompcrs TO-
night. "is exactly that for which the
federation has all along eontended as
far as it refers to the freedom of the
press. The right to freely express
opinions is a constitutional guaranty
There is nothing libelous in anything
the federation has published in con-
Injection with this whole case e"