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Show COMMENT ON SENTENCE OF LABOR LEADERS Editor Tribune: In your issue of December De-cember 24, on tho front .page In largo head lines, you say: "Gompcrs and Mitchell Mit-chell given jail sentences. Year for Gora-pera, Gora-pera, nine months for Mitchell." In your issue of December 25, on tho editorial page, you say "it is difficult to see how tho court could have refrained from inflicting in-flicting punishment, as the labor leaders openly and continuously defied the court's orders of Injunction. Undor these circumstances, cir-cumstances, It would be a curious court indeed that would fail to protect Us own dignity." Mr. Editor. In this case wo cannot sec where this court had any dignity to protect. pro-tect. Tho constitution of tho United States tho constitution of every state in the Union provides that every citizen may speak, write and publish his sentiments senti-ments on all subjects, and that no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty ot speech or the press. In this case, Judge Wright not only overstepped his authority, but violated his oath of office by Issuing an Injunction contrary to the constitution of tho United Stales, and every state In tho Union. Such being the ense, his order would be null and void, and our labor leaders are Innocent of offending tho dainty dignity of his royal highness, Judge Wright. But suppose they aro guilty of tho petty offense of wounding tho dignity of Judge Wright. No harm has boeli done. He should try a bottlo of Lydla Plnk-ham's Plnk-ham's palo pills for ncrvoun people. How can Post, the owner of that fodder fod-der factory at Battle Creek, Mich., gather up the broom factory and tannery sweepings, sweep-ings, manufacture the same Into a conglomeration, con-glomeration, label and sell It at fancy prices, culling It brain food. Grape Nuts, Postum Cereal, Baby Enlarger, etc.? Buy pages of different newspapers and fill them with vile abuses of labor unions and their leaders, and still not be guilty of offending tho dainty dignity of the court? And there Is his friend and adviser. Parry of Indianapolis. No man on earth has abused and slandered the laboring class as ho has. Still we have heard of no Judge's dlgnljy being offended. When Moyer. Haywood and Pcttlbonc wero kidnaped from Colorado to Idaho wo did not hear of any judge dying of a broken heart because his dynamical dignity dig-nity was offonded. But when our union leaders advlso us j that the Buck Stove and Range company is a scab outfit, they are to bo sent to jail to satisfy the bruise on the dainty dignity of his highness, Judge Wright. If this judge has sent them to Jail for buying a Buck stove or range, we would heartily indorse his action, for any laboring labor-ing man who would buy such Junk from that company deserves a sentence of death. Even junk dealers refuse them, as there is liability of a quarantine being placed upon your home at any time. Mr. Editor, your paper has at all times been fair and Impartial to union labor: thero Is no case where wo have received tho Httlo ond of It, and fully approclate It; and would like you to explain how a Judge can have his dignity wounded when ho Issues an Injunction contrary to tho constitution of tho United States, when by so doing such injunction Is void, therefore his void order cannot be disobeyed and his dynamical dignity hurt. A. E. MULL IN. Salt Lake City, Dec. 2S. |