Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-02
He Gets Very Close to the
American Heart In Doing
So and Controls the
American.
HE ASKS NO ODDS
NOW THE QUESTION COMES UP:
"WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO
WITH CONDITIONS CONFRONT
ING YOU; WHICH SIDE WILL.
YOU BE ON?" ~
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE.


New York, Nov. 2.-When Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, walked %
polling place this afternoon aBq saw
the bulletin board upon which had
been placed the decision of the court
of appeals of the District of Colum-
bia, affirming not only his Jail SEN
tenCe in the contempt charges, but
also those of John Mitchell, former
president of the United Mine Work
ers, and Frank Morrison, secretary
of the A. F. of L., the labor leader
said:
with all due respect to the ma
iority of the court ! cannot surren-
der my constftutionally guaranteed
rights becaude a judge issues an in
junction invading upon and denying
me those rights.
"Shepard's dissenting opinion is in
defense fthe constitution and ones
inherent rights. The minority opin-
ion of a court in the past when hum
an rights were invaded have ulti-
mately prevailed and have becoILe
law and l believe that the rule in
this case will not prove an eXcep-
ton.
IF l must go to Jail I shall have
other men in the paE/ have been COM
PEELED to suffer in defense of justice
for the maintnance of human lib
erty."
Gompers leaves here tonight for
Washington. While the labor leader
has not consulted with an attorney
an dCannot say what action is to be
taken there is little doubt but that
the case will go to the federal SUI
preme court.
In his last report to the American
Federation of Labor, Gompers set
forth his side of the case:
THE injunction granted by the
court, in this case, prohibits the
officers of the American federation
of Labor, the officers and members
of all affiliated unions, or their
agents, friends, sympathizers ,coun-
sci, 'conspirators or co-conspirators,
either as officials or as individuals,
from making any reference whatso-
ever to the fact that the Buck Stove
and Range company has ever been
in any dispute with labor, or to the
fact that the company has ever been
regarded as unfair or has ever been
on any unfair list or upon a We
Don't PatrOnize' list of the American
Federation of Labor or any other or
ganization. The injunction prohibits
any and all persons from either di-
rectly or indirectly referring to any
such controversy. Such statement or
reference is also prohibited by print
ed, written or spoken order.
Acting upon the authority and
instruction of the Norfolk conven-
tion, counsel, consisting of Judge A.
B. Parker and Messrs. Raiston ana
Siddons, were retained. WhSn rLc
injunction was issued and mace per-
manent, our counsel were instl .cted
TO appeal to the court of appeals &C.
the District of Columbia. ln the
meantime with the authority Of the
executive council the publicati n of
the name of the Buck Stove and
Range company was discontinIe1 in
the We Don't PatroniZe list Of the
American Federationist.
Later / discontinued the pTbli-
cation of the list in its entirety and
for the reasons which : s'Iall here
after give. OF course | discussed in
the editorial columns Of the Ameri-
can FederatiOnist the Injunction and
the fundamental principles involved.
I'm July a petition was presented
by the Buck Stove and Range COM
pany and an order issued by the SUI
preme court of the District of Co
lumbia against Samuel Gompers,