Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — GOMPERS AGAIN HIT [ARTICLE]

GOMPERS AGAIN HIT

Labor Leader Is Sentenced to Jail Term. and Morrison Also Ordered to Prison by District Court in Buck Contempt Case. Washington, June 25.—Samuel Gotopsrs, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, the labor leaders, were held guilty of contempt of court by the supreme court of the District of Columbia in connection with a court’s injunction in the Bucks Stove and Range boycott case. They were once sentenced to |ail on a similar charge. The federation leaders will attempt to appeal again to the Suprem'e. court of the United States, which reversed their former conviction. The court sentenced Gompers to one year, Morrison to six months and Mitchell to nine months, the same as an their previous conviction. Justice Daniel Thew Wright announced the decision of the court. It covered 72 closely typewritten pages, and took about two hours to read. Bondsmen were on hand and attorneys lor the labor men gave notice of in intention to file an appeal to have :he Supreme court review the judgment. in its previous review of the case the Supreme court reversed the conviction on the ground that the contempt proceedings had been improper<b r instituted. Now proceedings were it once begun. Tlie charge was that the three men, is officers of the American Federation if Labor, through the organization’s pffleial publication, had disregarded Justice Gould's injunction against the publication of the Bucks Stove and Range company's name in its “boycott ist.”