Show LABOR LEADERS PUT POT ON THEIR DEFENSE I WASHINGTON Nov 16 After I oral postponements Teguments ar ments today today today-I were bc begun n in inequity equity court No 2 of the district supreme court in the contempt i proceedings against Samuel Gompers I Frank Morrison orrison and John Mitchell of the tho American Federation of Labor in iu instituted instituted by the tho Buck Stove and Range Ranc company It is alleged in in the petition that the d defendants h violated the or order or of the tho court enjoining them from in anyway any anyway anyway way interfering with the business of the tho company through boycotts boycott or the publication publication publication cation of their names in a wo we dont don't patronize list Judge Alton B. B Parker of Now New York chief chic counsel for the tho American Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion was to have participated in iD the tho arguments ar ar- ar but ho bo was na unable to be ho pres pres- ent cot I |