Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This is a proceeding to reverse a judgment, finding that Samuel Gompers, John- Mitchell and Frank Morrison were guilty of contempt in violating the terms of an injunction restraining them from continuing a boycott, or from publishing any statement that there was or had been a boycott against the Bucks Stove & Range Company. The contempt case grew out of litigation reported in 33 App.
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CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This is a proceeding to reverse a judgment, finding that Samuel Gompers, John- Mitchell and Frank Morrison were guilty of contempt in violating the terms of an injunction restraining them from continuing a boycott, or from publishing any statement that there was or had been a boycott against the Bucks Stove & Range Company. The contempt case grew out of litigation reported in 33 App. D. C. 83, 516. It will only be necessary to briefly refer to the facts set out in that record. The American Federation of Labob is composed of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice Lamar,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the opinion of the court. •
The defendants, Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, were found guilty of contempt of court in making certain publications prohibited by an injunction from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. They were sentenced to imprisonment for twelve, nine and six months respectively, and this proceeding is .prosecuted to reverse that judgment.
The order alleged to have been violated was granted in the equity suit of the “Bucks Stove & Range Company v. The American Federation of Labor and…
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