Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-11-03

society would be reddced TO a stat
Of anarchy
Failed to Obey Courts order.
The action of the supreme Court O
the District OF Columbia in senteno
ing Samuel Gompers. John Mitchell
and Frank Morrison OF the America
Federation of Labor to ~. 3 and
1 months Imprisonment in Jail respec
lively. was the result Of the failur
of these defendants to obey the orde
of the court, directing them TO desis
! from placing the Bucks Stove am
Range Company Of St Louis. Mo-. OF
their unfair list in the prosecution o
their boycott against the corporation
While the name of the corporation
was removed from the unfair list o
the federation. Messrs. Gompers ant
Mitchell continued 10 keep alive tn
| boycott by frequent references to /
In the Federationist the onicial organ
Of the federation.
Mr. Mitchell was involved IN th'
trouble by reason Of his membership
OF the executive board of the fedora
tion and because il was alleged hi
had made no effort to prevent the
adoption of a resolution at the con
venticn OF the United Mine Workers
of America in antagonizement to the
! Bucks Steve and Range Company. The
result OF the boycott. it was said. was
to cause a decline in the business ol
the stove and range company of fifty
per cent.
Reason for Boycott
The boycott placed by the fedora
ton against the products of the Bucks
Stove and .ange Company grew out
Of a fight made by the Metal Polish
ers Union and. supported by the fed
Grafton. for an eight instead of nine
hour day. This was resisted by the
company and the Federationist pub
lished the name of the Bucks Stove
and Range Company under the cap
ten We Do Not Patronage
Van Cieave Makes Statement.
ST. LOUIS. MO. Nov. Il. w.
Van Cleave, President Of the Bucks
Stove and Range Company today in
statement concerning the decision
in the case OF Gompers, Morrison and
Mitchell, said:
The assault upon me by the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor in 1906 was
plotted in cold blood | was asailed
not as an individual. but as president
of the National Association of Manu-
factarers. The federation did this in
order to show its power. il aimed to
strike terror into everybody outside
It's own ranks-wCrkers. employers.
and the general public alike. and to
coerce the president of the United
States. the congress and the courts.
federal and state to do ITS bidding.
He Was Amazed.
Surprising that the leaders of the
federation would desist from their
attacks upon our business, when en-
joined by the court, | was amazed
when to disobedience, they added
open ana OBSERVATIONS defiance And
let il be remembered that these vio-
lators OF law and these assailants OF
he courts were not Individual ofend
ars. but acted in the name of the
1000, 200 persons whom they claim L
be members CT their league. What
would the country think il the hea.
of any great industrial, commercial
or transportation interes: should yio-
late the law as these men have done
and should challenge the courts to
carry out the Law and to enforce
their decTees2
IT must be remembered that these
men are not convicted because OF
heir attempt to destroy the business
Of the Bucks Stove & Range Com
ANY. but because they openly defied
he orders Ct the federal court"