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Show LABOR LEADERS WILL NOT ASK FOR CLEMENCY Washington. Jan. 22. "We have not asked and will not ask for clemency, and we hope our friends will not urge us to pursue such a course. To ask pardon would render useless all the trials and sacrifices which our men or I labor and our friends in all walks ot life have endured that the rights and liberties of our people might be restored. re-stored. Such a pardon would only It-ave the whole case in confusion, and it would have to be fought over again from the beginning." This is the language used in a statement state-ment signed by Messrs, Gompers. Mitchell Mit-chell and Morrison In the current number of the American Federatlonlst, in formal protests against the action of Justice Wright in sentencing them to Imprisonment for contempt, of court in the Bucks Stove and Range case December 23. Samuel Gompers heads the statement: state-ment: ".Tadge Wright's Denial ot Free Speech and Free Press," and he declares "wo will not "bate" a single word or take a letter back." Mr. Gompers refers to the "Intemperate "Intem-perate and vindictive spirit displayed j by tho justice," and to "this tirade of judicial abuse, and misrepresentation " in a separate statement, but he Joins I with Messrs. Mitchell and Morrison in' ! declaring that they would not "enter i into competition with the honorable I court in tho use of invective, rancor j or scathing denunciation." and tnac j they Bhould protest "against the ! court's unprecedented and unwarrant-' unwarrant-' td flaglllatlou of the cause and the ; people wer have the honor to repre '. sent." , That the trio of labor leaders fully understand the responsibility they as eume In making their statements, is I Lhown by their declaration that even though they may be held In additional j contempt,' "we are willing to accept j the consequences." |