Millard County Chronicle | 1911-05-18 | Page 5 | Labor Leaders Freed

LABOR LEADERS FREED. Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison Win Before the Highest Tribunal. Washington. Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison, president, presi-dent, vice president and secretary of the American Federal on of Labor, respectively, re-spectively, stepped from wlth n the shadow of the jail on Monday, when the rupreme conrt of the I'nited State set aside their sentences of imprisonment im-prisonment for contempt grow it. g out of the litigation between the Hut k Stove and Kange t.:np:ny of St. LmU and the federation. The basis of the court's opinion was that the proceeding brought against the labor officers was for civil contempt con-tempt which could be punished ouly by the lmosltion of a fine The sentence sent-ence of the lower court to imprisonment, imprison-ment, was the penally for cr.mlnal contempt and In the premises, therefore, there-fore, It was not legal punishment.