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Show I GOMPERS MPS I BonanRM B Decision of Supreme Court Termed Unfair Attack on Union Movement ST. LOUIS, Jan. 5. The decision or the I'nltrd States supreme court Mon-lay Mon-lay relative to the so-called nocondury boycott was attacked In a statement last night h Samuel Gompers, presl-lent presl-lent of the American Federation of ". Ixibor who asserted the court has 'Joined forces with the antl-unlon hop movement." The statement characterized the dc-rlslon dc-rlslon as a "blow at the movement for human freedom and progri ss,' and de-ilnred de-ilnred It Is "thorouifhly in accord with 'ho most ardent wishes of predatory i The court held that Inhor unions or their members are accountable under ; the anti-trust laws where- they depart! I from thMr "normal and legitimate 00- I Jects and enfrag-e in an actual comblcUL Hon or conspiracy In restraint of HI LD l M MR ITT ( K Mr. (fompcrs statement I "The supreme court. In rendering Its -decision in lh- ruse of the Duplex! Printing Press company versus the In- ternational Association of Machinist.-. 1 lias Joined forces with the antl-unlon i . ihop movement, the movement s o determine and destroy the only movement the working people have tor their protection "The majority decision fully justifies the statement attributed by the press min Justice ilrandels in the minority! dissenting opinion that tlx whole movement of thirty years to place rkera and employers on a basis o) quality before the law has been nulli-H nulli-H 3 fled. in OH TO FREEDOM.' " have not read th whole 1. manatee of the decision, but 1 ha .. n nuf-fleient nuf-fleient to sny that It Is In accord with the most ardent wishes of predator jreed and should be highly satlefaa-tory satlefaa-tory to those who exact profits and IssS deny th aspirations of humanity- it is a blow at the movement for humun freedom and progress. I can only add that the protests of minorities minori-ties of one day have frequently been i'he derision . f m . or UI-n ,.' r,e ' . ! Oompers Is ah route from 'Washington to Mexico City to attend .tho Pan-American Federation ot Labor La-bor i onventlon. |