LABOUR BLACK LIST.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 655, 4 November 1909, Page 7

LABOUR BLACK LIST.

1 " UNITED ' .' SENTENCES ON UNION LEADERS, , UPHELD ON APPEAL , (»y Tclseraph-Prcje Aseoclation-Oopyfltht.) (Kec. November 3, 11 pjn.), New York, November 8. ~ In December last Judgo Wright, of the Sny premo Court of tho District of Columbia, gavo |f judgment in some contempt cases against three n labour union leaders under an injunction re- „ latmg to a boycott of the Bucks Stovo and Hango Company , , of St. Louis. The three dee fondants ore officors of the American I'cdera- £ tion of Labour, and an injunction had been e granted forbidding tho Federation's officers to ,_ publish tho Bucks Stove Company's name lu its funfair" or "wo don't patronise" lists, j. The injunction was not obojed, tho defendants 0 were oited for contempt of Court, and Judge e Wright bentenced them as follow s:a Samuel Gompers, President of C-o Federag tion, one jear's impiisonmenlj John Jlitchell, . Vice-President, nine months; Frank Morrison, secretary, six months. Defendants appealed to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia. Thlb Court _ now upholds the decision of Judge Wright. Defcudants will now further appeal to tho United States Supremo Court. '[Tho proceedings in this case dale from Jl)07, 1 and are Still a lone way from their conclusion. , It is complained that Judge Wright's sentence.! 3 are excessive, and thnt the tone oi hia doci- ■ sion indicated indignation and heat, When 1 appealed to, President Roosevelt said ho could : not deal with tho question whether the puuibh- - tnent was oxcescive until the cose had left tho ■ couits. After Judge Wiight's dccibiau,. Mri Gompers notified the discontinuance of the publication of the "wo don't patronise" list until - further efforts should bo nmde. to secure legi'-- , Intion excluding labour unions from the re- . 'strictions of the Sherman Act]