Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-04-11
LABOR CONTEMPT
CASES RE-ARGUED
THE COURT DECIDES
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
Affair Ordered Back by the
Supreme Court.
THE THIRD TIME
CASES BEEN HEARD

SS'e VIC T'SSSVt dnO NSme6 April
20 az the Date-No Rate Case De.
erees Important Franchise Test
Under California Law Disposed Of.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April T.
after having the Gompers- Mitchell
Morrison contempt case upder advise.
nent since January 8 the Supreme
court yesterday restored it to the
locket for re-argument, April 20, be-
,ore Justice Lurton, who was absent
when the case was argued, returned
20 his duties after being away since
November.
The case comes up on an appeal
from the action Of the District of Co.
,umbia Court OF Appeals in reducing
to 30 days the oneyear Imprisonment
sentence imposed by the District Su.
preme Court upon Samuel Gompers,
president OF: the American Federation
Of Labor. and the sentences Of nine
and six months, respectively. upon
John Mitchell, viee-president, and
Frank Morrison, secretary of the Fed
GRAFTON, to fines of $500 each. The
labor leaders were held guilty Of vio-
lating an anti-boycott Injunction of
The District Court in 1907 in the
Bucks Stove and range Company case
against the Federation.
This will make the third time the
| case has been presented to the court
In 1911 the Court held the local court
had imposed criminal sentences OF
contempt on the labor leaders In an
equity proceeding. The day after the
Supreme Court set aside the sentence
| the District Supreme Court began
new proceedings and finally imposed
| the same sentences set aside in the
| first proceedings.
Now the labor leaders contend pro-
ceedings against them are barred by
| the statute Of limitations, and the
District Supreme Court is seeking to
have it's sentences stand as imposed,
| denying the right Of the Court Of APP
peals to interfere in the matter. :.
CALIFORNIA; attempt by constitu-
| t1onal amendment to require all cor
porations using city streets for water
or artificial light purposes to procure
| franchises from the respective cities
was declared by the Supreme Court
to be Intellectual as to water and light
| companies in business when tn.
amendment was adopted in 1911. Pri-
vate water and light companies ap.
| pealed to the court to stop the state,
by the amendment, from depriving
| them of several hundred million dol.
| lars invested in the business OF
serving municipalities, claiming that
the amendment was designed to en-
able municipalities to drive out pri-
vate companies by refusing fran
| chises, and then to establish munich
pal works "
Half an hour spent In Canada will
SOoI odAluSi Low ID, ItuSl6u, lib lie
time in the United States, the STU
preme 80 holding in a decision which
may affect many Immigration cases.
| Lewis came to the United States In
| 1904 and after living in New York
for awhile he went to Detroit, Novem-
/ Der II, 1910, and crossed to Windsor,
Ont, returning with woman, whom
1t was charged, he brought for illegal
purposes. He commended that his re-
turn to the United States was not an
ENTRY" within the meaning Of the law
The Supreme held that it was and
he will be deported.
The Court annulled as unconstitu-
tional section Of the Michigan au-
tomobile law making the owner of
motor car responsible TOD injuries.
irrespective of who was running the
machine.
Mono ~ tho frnporfoDf ronrood