Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-11-13 | Page 10 | For a Free Press and Free Speech

Ivjlj ji'JES (iompors Says This Is tyuoslion j J , B Which Holiest ('our, Must . I tin I,(,(,i,,e- - '! H NOT t'MRTAJX ABOUT ! , ; if' H .SERVING TKKM IX JAIL ; ,, iffl- Points Oiitflirec 1Vatys by .1 il: ffl Which KannMis Case jlay 4 !; Ilp Be Carried I Jj t ' 'llwS TUKOXTO. Nov. 12. ; Hither wo - 1 ! ' W hnvo Uio right, of free speech ami free ' ' u'l uta press or viv hsivo not, and wo want Uio J' ! r iMn eourt. to ny so. Whether we will go hi I'M-fll t0 ' () m)L know." U v 1 'mJII Samuel fJonipors, president of Lhe I J I iHH American Federation of l.iabor. thus ex- 1 i ' Ul pressed himself today in telling the .' I liiffl Federation convention the status of the d ' 1 ijifl contempt proceedings under which he. '( 1 ! " ' ififl Vice President. Mitchell and Secretary I '! 1 IIocrison havo been sentenced to terms i I ajffl i in jail. I' I Tnl 'r GompiMS sau' there were three lf ' I MB "ways in wlw;li the case could rench the I i rlafl supreme court of tho Vnitotl .States ' "''! OB V wr''' ' prror; wr'( f certiorari, .'MB or hy writ of habeas corpus, after tho li '. 'i fo defendants -hail been placed in jail. I." , ' ',, in . Faith in Ills Cause. li : llll n:iXR abiding faith in the justice ' Ifl Jil our c:,"f'e'" 'r Hompprs continued, 1 Si aM "and I van only pxpro.'s the hopn that ' i. ' '"' mm 'IC 'nFncr ,;o,,rl of. our land will iiu- J ''i' ' llwl jnortalize themselves by the reincania- 1 ' i ' ' 'PfiB 'l0 ,ns,Cnu ''harta and the con- i I hnJI Ktirution of tho United States.'' ' 'I ' ' li'lM aPl,C!,l 'ol' '"oral and financial It j Jf support from the strilting ' gai'mciiL , ir' fl workers in St. Louis wax road and jlc- j ,' .j Nil f erred; syveral resolutions were pre- ' j i ' r "i ftfij scntod, and the convention adjourned ' I Mi ' iff! until tomorrow. ! I I in Brewery "Workorn Kick. ; , j ' ij.'i n The International ISrewerv Work- j j fj! j 0 men's union. jresenfed a resolution ad- it ' H Micating an amcnduient to the consti- j ' 1 1 I tution to provide that neither the j J! ;' ! 1 "executive council nor officers of' the j .j J 3'Vderat ion convention bo permitted to Ij 1 j !j iuterfcro with tho internal affairs of ' j ;i j an international organization, and ' ' j JJ never shouhl use slate or central bodies i iij m to take sides in matters which wore s , i i! Si to be adjured by tho international ' ' 'A Jrl onions themselves. I 'S! f T'10 f'P-ntfal Labor union of the Dis- 'ij Irict of 'oluinbia suggests Jlic infln ' ,j .!.. 'H "ncp of I he I'Vcli'iMt inn In- used to "'rl iW change the dale of inaugi'rnt mg th- . I j llj president to the 1'niled States to a I I ' 1 jw more suitable time than March 1.