Show LABOR LEADERS ERS FOUND Judge Hunt of the Montana Federal Court Sends Three w to 0 County Jail TWO OF THEM ALSO FINED ANOTHER CHAPTER OF BELL TELEPHONE STRIKE Helena Mont Jan 3 Judge William WilliamH II H Hunt in the federal court late today bie e a verdict of guilty against three o othe of the four Butte labor leaders on the barge of or contempt of or court in violating the rhe injunction of the court restraining hem them from interference with the operA tiers of the tho Rocky Mountain Bell Tele hone one company com pan Joseph Shannon received a sentence o of mety days imprisonment in the county tail jail William Cutts was sentenced to ninety da days s imprisonment and a fine tine o of A E Edwards was given glen a of dt ninety days imprisonment and nd a fine R It C Scott the fourth defendant was discharged d During the days davs session yesterday the defense continued its testimony to prove provan an alibi for the accused man Among those who occupied the stand were werl ero Jo Joseph Joseph I seph Shannon and William Cutts who I U stifled in their own behalf Remarks of the Court CourtIn In rendering his decision on op the case caliC Judge Hunt spoke in part as follows God gave man his hands his bis back anc and the lie right to use them aa as he no pleases It Itis itis is an Inalienable right No power can take it away from a man No power can him to work No power can com compel comp pel p l him to stop working if It he lIe desires to work When hen a man or any set of men take It upon themselves to say that they re rl the law and to defy det the process 01 of tue courts to defy the police pollee authority of ot ottle tile tho land to usurp the authorIty of established established established government to upset the very verj base of society in which we all live there is a power which will iU come to the rescue of the man who Is wronged in that wa way and that power is that you and protects me and must to afford us all protection else elsei i eminent is destroyed Right to Labor fier ULer declaring that a nonunion man mans manIs js Is s as much right to labor as has bus a mem meni rr of a religious creed or of a political party arty and that the defendants would jan been no more justified in abducting laborer because of his being a Chris Chrisan an a Jew or a Democrat or a i an all Judge Hunt continued I Th fh function of a labor organization organizations i s usually to elevate the standards for 1 to raise to higher levels men who ibor hor It is a noble aim It has accomplished an estimable amount of good I Id cl d not believe there is a judge or a btu stu U int I nt in the land who would decry the organization of laboring men But the great principle that men lose sight o oIs of ofis ofIs Is that the rich as well as the poor must always move circumscribed by the limi limitations limitations of the law No Xo corporation be it the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com corn rny rany or any an other is superior to the I 1 law tw and on the other hand no man w who ho works for it or anyone else is superior I b the th law Shannon was a member of the first leg lek le 4 slature and is now president of the Mon Mont t branch of the Western Vestern Federation if Ir Miners Cutts js is business agent for forthe forthe the Ow carpenters union |