Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-12-28 | Page 5 | Socialist Paper is Sued for Libel

SOCIALIST PAPER IS SUED FOR LIBEL Salt Lake, Dec 2S For publishing publish-ing his name among a Hat of strikebreakers, strike-breakers, Austin Gibbons, a furnace man at the Garfield smelter, j-ostcrday filed suit In the district court against the Intermountain Worker Publishing Publish-ing compan, Murray E. King, W M Wesley and J H Zeuger, for ?10,-000 ?10,-000 damages Gibbous alleges that because or the publication of his name as a strikebreaker strike-breaker ho was held up to public hate, contempt and ridicule and his chances of future employment destroyed. des-troyed. The complaint sets forth that at the time the Bingham strike began the defendants entered Into a con- spiracy to force the plaintiff to join tho Bingham Miners' union and the WoBtern Federation of Miners Upon his refusal to Join either organization, It Is charged, the defendants maliciously malici-ously undertook to circulate false reports re-ports concerning him and "blackballed" "black-balled" him as a strike-breaker. Gibbons avers that he has been employed em-ployed as a sraeltcrman for twonty-Tour twonty-Tour years and has a good position, Ib trusted and respected by his employers employ-ers and his rellow workers, and that the actions of the defendants have injured his reputation and standing In the community. An Injunction restraining the publishing pub-lishing company from printing hiB name among the lists of strike-breakers hereafter also is soughL