Show Lon lABOR l AD RS RSS S SENT NT TO PRiSON I They Were Vere Found Guilty of I Contempt of Court in Butte judge TalKs Tall of the Right to Wor WorK HELENA Mont ont Jan Tan J. Judge J. Judge William Wil Vil liam H. H Hunt in the thc federal court yesterday yesterday yes yes- gave avo a a verdict of guilty n against three of tho the four fOIll Butte Butto labor leaders lenders on tho char charge e of contempt of court in violating vie vio lating the thc injunction of the court restraining re re- straining them from interference with the of tho time Rock Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company compau Joseph Shannon received a sentence of ninety days days' imprisonment in tho the county jail William Cutts Cults was sentenced sen sen- to ninety v da days days' s im imprisonment and amid a fin flue fine of while whilo J A. A K h. J- J Edwards uvas Y lS given a sentence of n ninety daj day imprisonment im ha- and a fine K R. C. C Scott the fourth defendant was wn di discharged During time the tin days lav's v s 's session sion yesterday y tho time defense continued its testimony to provo prove an alibi for the accused men men Amon Among those who occupied the stand wore Joseph Shannon and inti William Villiam Cutts who testified in their own be be- half I I In rendering his decision on the case Judge Hunt spoke in part as follows God gave man his hands his hig back and the right to u use e them then as he pleases It is an inalienable right No pO power potter H Hcan can take lako it awa away from a man No po power pow pow- er lr can compel him Jilin to work No Xo power can compel om pel him to stop working if ho desires to work When hen a man or any set of m men n take it upon themselves es to say that tho they are the law and to defy def the tho the process of ot tho to defy the police authority of the tho laud land to usurp the authority o of ot established government o to upset the very ory base of or society in which wo we all live there thero is is a power which will come to tho rescue of the theman theman man who is wronged wron ed in that way and that power is that which protects you vou and protects m me and must continue to afford us all protection else government o is des After declaring that a union non-union man has as aa much rj right ht to labor as aR has a member of a religions r creed or of a apolitical apolitical apolitical political party nn arid and that tho the defendants would have havo been no rio more justified in in abducting a laborer 1 because o of his being beng i a n Christian a Jew Tew or 01 a Democrat or a aI I Republican n. n Jud Judge e Hunt continued The function of a It labor Jabor organization tion is usually lIs to elevate tho the standards for men to men to raise rai to higher levels level men who labor It is a noble aim It has haM accomplished an inestimable amount of or orI I good I do not riot believe c there is a n judge I or a student in iii the land who would rio do- I cry TV the or organization of laboring men I But tho time great principle that men lo lose loso o I sight ht of is that the tho rich as well as thy thi- poor must always alwa's move moo circumscribed circum circum- scribed cribe by the limitations of ot tho the law No corporation be it tho Rocky Mountain Moan Moun tain Bell Telephone company compan or OT any other i is superior to the law and on 00 the tho other hand no man mau who works works' for forit forit forit it or anyone else is superior to time the thola la Sh Shannon Wll was a n member o of the first Legi Legislature and Is I now pres president of the tho Montana branch of the Western Federation Feder of Miners Cutts is ma business a agent for the tho Carpenters Carpenters' Union |