State v. Howat

The opinion of the court was delivered by

PoeteR, J.:

The appellant, August Dorchy, vice president of district No. 14, United Mine Workers of America, a labor union, embracing in its membership persons engaged in coal mining in Crawford and Cherokee counties, Kansas, was charged (jointly with the president of the same labor union, Alexander Howat) with the violation of the industrial court act (Laws 1920, ch. 29) in calling a strike at mine H of the George K. Mackie Fuel Company. He was sentenced to serve six months in the county j ail of Cherokee county and to pay a fine of $500 and the costs…