The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1909-11-08
SAMUEL GOMPERS
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"And what, after all. are the
grounds upon which Justice Wright
held the defendants guilty of viola
ton of the terms of the injunction?
When the injunction was issued and
went into effect, both temporary and
permanent, We proposed to test the
principles involved before the estab-
lished legal tribunals. BY instruction
of and with authority from the execu-
tive council the name of the Buck S
Stove and Range company was re-
moved from the we Don't Patronize'
list in the American Federationist
"Vioe- President Mitchell. It was al
legged. violated the injunction by al
lowing certain acts to be performed
by the officers OF the American Fed
.eration of Labor, and also. that while
presiding at convention of the
United Nine Workers of America,
resolution, regularly introduced by
delegate. calling upon the members
of that organization not to bestow
their patronage upon the product of
the Bucks Stove and Range company
was submitted by Mr.. Mitchell to the
delegates for a vote.
Secretary Morrison was charged
substantially with having violated the
terms of the injunction in so far as
that he sent, or caused to be sent out
copies Of the printed official proceed
ings of the previous convention of the
American Federation of Labor con
tanning officers and committee re-
ports and resolutions of the sonyen-
ton relative TO the Bucks Stove and
Range company's injunction and
copies of the American Federationist
similar references. circu-
lars. appeals for funds, and editorials
written by me on the injunction
abuse.
1.-THE allegations charging me with !
the terms of the injunction |
were that / did, or authorized, or di- |
rected TO be done, these things: be-
cause. by authority of the convention |
and of the executive council / sent to |
our fellow-wOrkers and friends an APP
peal for funds m order that we might |
be In a position to defend ourselves /
before the courts in the very injunc- |
ton case involved; because in lee /
lures and on the public platform,
during the presidential campaign / /
made addresses to the people giving
he reasons for the vote as a citizen
was to cast at the then pending presi-
tential election, and because / dared
10 discuss the fundamental
involved, not only in the
Injunction pending but the entire
abuse of the injunction writ Aye.
because ! published in the American
the order OF the court
o show cause why we should not be
punished for contempt of the injunc-
ion was made part of the testimony
lpOn which Justice Wright deemed it
important to hold me guilty
81 urge upon every wage-earner
md every one Interested in the dis ;
.ussion Of great rights and principles
involved TO read the decision and {
'pnioHs of the Justices rendered in {
his case. The opinions and decision !
we're published in the April, 1909. I
ssue Of the American Federationist. /
"The court OF appeals did not take '
ny original testimony IN the case. I
nd | am justified in saying that the {
udges we're somewhat in error in '
heir estimate of the actual facts in t
elation TO the boycott OF the Bucks \
tcYe and Range company. This II r
Understandable from the fact that the I
merican Federation Of Labor at no 4