The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-09-05
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[AE PEACE PACT
Hck STOVE sTockH OIL pERs
WOULD ENJoIN AGREEMENT
\ WITH UNION.
Isl GOES into COURT
. UP Claim for $4,000 as Boy,
cot Damages--Wili Resist
Closed Shop Would
Break Contract.

|M Louis, Sept. &c. w. Post, OF
NE Creek, Mica, today f.ied suit
ltne United States Circuit Court
the asstern district of Missouri.
INST the American Federation CT
|por and the Buck Stove & Range
|Nnpany Of st. Louis to restrain the
|Fers of the Il tier company from
|lrying out an allegedly tentativel
|Ieement Wfeh officers Of the form.
|sto make the ST. Louis sinstitu' ion
Nosed shop tfhe case is a suit In
|Flty and Includes among tie de-
plants Samuel Gompers. president,
#n Mitchell, yice-president; E'Iansl
|Frison secretary, and other Officers
IA the federation, and some fftyl
Rers prominently | Identified WITH
Gpn labor in America.
Nhe injunction feature of tie case
N be heard By Judge Smith Mo.
PRISON in chambers at Red Oak.
ma, Monday morning. !
Fhe action grows out of TIE meet,
N held In Cincinnati. July 10, atI
elcn arrangements were perfected
Rween Gompers and his associates
\ the officers of the stove company
shave lifted the boycott when hal
Nm inforce during the life of ]. W. |
R1 Cleave, who died May Is, of this
ID.
Would Loose Prestige.
9'he complainant, Post, states in
n petition, that be Is a stockholierl
fthe Buck Stove Company and that
interests and those of the com
gy will suffer by reason of the pro
ted agreement, A meeting between
American Federation leaders and
Y stock company officers has bee1l
for next Tuesday and it was to |
off possible action that tie suit |
Is filed today.
II Is claimed that the consunatiou
1.-THE proposed agree nent would lie
I've the stove company of any ol-l
lrtunity of recovering hundreds oil
lusands of dollars lost because OF
u union boycott and tnat irrepar-l
10 injury to the concern will result, |
pause of the destruction of thel
fstige 1t gained through its victory
nsr the labor unions in the District
Columbia courts.
"A claim for damages in the sum OF
10000, allegedly>> suffered as thel
Ault of the boycott, is set UP under
ID Sherman act, making the case
fntical in many respects with the
nous Danbury hat suit, in which
's hatters recovered $22f,000 as the
built of boycott by the labor un
Us,
Would Break Contract.
After reciting the history of the
,ck case from the date OF its in
5tion in 1908, when the metal pol
hers union went on strike, down to
y present time. it is charged that |
,ugh the strike was without cause, |
afterwards stated by Chief Jugtlce
right of the equity court of the Dls-
.ct of Columbia. the Federation OF |
,bor instituted the boycott as a
rt of a conspiracy to wreck a firm
nicn had presumed to insist on the
;ht sof all men to work for their
miles and themselves.
Following the death Of j. w. Van
cave. who had been the backbone
the company's opposition to thc
Ieration leaders, it is alleged, Fred
!. Gardiner, a majority stockholder,
sumed managerial control of the
mpany and planned to change it's
licy to its detriment.
II is further alleged that 1t is pro
,sed by the defendants company's
esent directorate to violate con
,ct with the American Anti-boycott
sociation, which is prosecuting the
Sc against Gompers and nis asso-
ates now pending in the supremel
urt. This contract was entered IN
during the life of Van Cleave.