Show LABOR LEADERS FINALLY WIN IN contempt sentences imposed by dis brict of columbia judges set aside washington the contempt sen bences imposed by the district supreme court on samuel gompers john mitchell Ml and prank frank lorrison labor leaders were set aside on mon day by the supreme court for or the second time as barred by the statute of 0 limitations the decision settled the point kolat that con tempts of court are crimes th tb point has been raised in contempt cases throughout the country just ice holmes said that con tempts are infractions of the file law visited with punishment as such and it if they were not crimes the court was in error as t to 0 the most fundamental characteristics of crimes as that word has been understood in english speech |