Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — HE RUSHED THE ISSUE [ARTICLE]

HE RUSHED THE ISSUE

Goni|M‘i-K Expedited the Federal iontsr in Order to Publish the Buck Stove Co. Boycott. Washington. Sept. 18;—That he hastened the publication of the American Kcderationist fob last January so as to gc! it Into circulation before the in junction decree of the supreme court of the District of Columbia prohibiting the publication of the Rucks Stove and Range company, of St. I.ouis. in tlie "We don't patronize list” of that periodical became effective, was admitted by President Sambuel Gompers. of the American Federation of Labor, to Examiner Harper, who is taking testimony In the proceedings j n contempt against Gompers and others. Davenport, counsel for Hie company, asked Gompers if it was his contention In this particular case that he had the constitutional right to publish in the IVdemtion’s official organ any thing he saw tit carrying out an nlleg od combination to boycott the Bucks Stove and Range eomapny, and that it was beyond the power of the court to prevent «udi publication “Our enn tentjon." replied Gompers. “was that any such injunction was an infringement and an invasion of the constitutional right of tree speech and a free press.”