Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-20
MAY CONTINUE SUIT
Courts, Dignity involved in
Labor Contempt Case.
VIEW OF FRANK MORRISON
Proceedings Not Affected by Peace
With Bucks Company.
DESIRABLE PROSPECT OPENED
Agreement Indicates Continued Ad-
justment of Employees Condi-
tons in America.

| HllI O1ICldlS OF the department OF
Justice have communicated with Attorney
General Wickershan, now en- route to
| Alaska, announcement will be made
here concerning the procedure which may
be had in the pending prosecutions Of
| officials of the American Federation of
| Labor. growing out of their trouble with
| the Buck Stove and Range Company of
st. Louis.
Notwithstanding the agreement reached
| in Cincinnati, Ohio, last night by repre-
sentatives of the federation and the
Stove Founders National Defense Asso-
citation TO end the warfare, no assur-
ances were forthcoming that the cases
against President Samuel Gompers Vice
President John Mitchell and Secretary
Morrison for contempt of court would
be discontinued. These cases are pend
ing in the United States Supreme Court
Case Is in Courts Hands.
1t is pointed out that while the con-
tempt proceedings were pushed by the
attorneys of the stove company, which
has now withdrawn these legal repre-.
sentatives, the case has now gone be-
yQnd them The issue is at present one
VI HdtiCudl law anu Tic uiShty VI tHS
courts.
Commenting upon the agreement of the
Bucks Stove and Range Company of ST.
Louis, Mo-, TO abandon its open-shop pol
icy and hereafter. to employ none but
union men, Frank Morrison. secretary Of
the American Federation of Labor, today
said:
1.-The agreement just entered into by
the representatives Of the Buck Stove and
Range Company with the officers of the
international organizations. that this
company will employ members of their
organizations and tee unions, on their
part, agreeing to supply the company
with competent craftsmen to carry on
their business, can only bring about the
very best results for all parties con-
cerned.
Opens Desirable Prospects.
THE continued adjustment of the diff
ferences between employers and their en-
ployes throughout America is but a mani
festation of the steady growth of senti-
ment among employers in favor of the
principles for which the American labor
movement stands. It is an indication that
within the near future there will be few
employers who will not favor collective
bargaining.
Such agreements are not only most
| satisfactory to the employers of labor"
| he said, but promote peace OF mind
among employees. which is conducive to
good workmanship, condition which
cannot prevail among employees who
have nothing whatever to say in re-
gard to the wages and conditions under
which they work.
| This settlement will not affect the
| cases now pending in the Supreme
Court said MIR. Morrison. 'The Su
preme Court will pass upon the ques-
ton whether the labor men or the in
ferior courts were in error in regard
vision guaranteeing free speech and
| free press"
Announcement of Agreement.
| The announcement that the stove
company had decided to enter the ranks
| of union labor was made by President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor in Cincinnati last
night.
James w. Van Cleave, head of the
Bucks company and former president
of the National Association of Manu-
facturers. died May Is last after six
| Federation of Labor. His friends at
tributed his death. after six months
| illness, to the strain of the fight he
had waged since 1905 with union labor,
which he had once described as
muscle trust"
In the course of that fight he had OBJ
tanned an injunction from the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia for
| bidding the federation to boycott his
company or to print it's name in the
| unfair list in the Federationist, the
organ of the Gompers organization. For
violating that injunction Judge Wright
| imposed a sentence of one years i'm
prisonment on Gompers. one of six
months on Secretary Frank Morrison
and one OF nine months on John Mitch
| ell
Mitchell Among Culprits.
| Mr.. Mitchell Is vice president of the
! federation. While he was president of
the United Mine Workers of America
he presided over one of it's conventions
| I'm the west, at which resolutions we're
adopted imposing fine of S. on any
member of the union who should buy
any of the products of the Bucks COM
pany.
The Court OF Appeals of the District of
/ Columbia upheld the action of Judge
| Wright. Then appeal was taken to
the Supreme Court Of the United States,
which has not yet passed on the ques-
| ton.
| The settlement Of the differences be-
| will not affect the cause pending in the
| Supreme Court, and that tribunal next
winter Is expected to pass on the ques-
/ ton Of whether the courts below Vio-
lated freedom of speech or whether the
labor men offended against law and
order.