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Show "PUBLIC DUTY," SAYS PLAINTIFF'S COUNSEL PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 23. James M! Beck of Now York, counsel for tho Buck Stovo company, was informed of the decision de-cision in tho labor case at Washington while in iJiIh city today. Mr. Bock, who mnde the closing argument for tho company, com-pany, In commenting on tho case, said: "Counsel for tho Buck Stove company, in this proceeding, reluctantly did what seemed lo be an Imperative duty, not only to their client, but to tho public Mad wo not done so decrees of a court of oo.ulty against tho sViacsproad boycott of th Federation of Labor would have becomo worso I ban a farce. "This case ought to bo tho deathknell of tho boycott. If so. It Is tho most Important Im-portant decision in si labor controversy since the Debs on wo of ISOil, from which It only dlffei-3 In the fact that in tho Debs enso physical violence was used to paralyze para-lyze interstate traffic. Jn tho Duck stove case tho Insidious find far moro danger- ous method of a boycott was employed. "For both tho employer nnd employee tho courageous action of Judgo Wright ought to provo -,i judicial emancipation from a form of tyranny of which President Presi-dent Roosevelt has said In subHtancc that It I ono of tho most cruel forms of oppression op-pression yet devised by the wit in man for tho intllctlon of suffering on hl3 folio fol-io wnian." |