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Show LABOR LEADERS FREED. Compere, Mitchell and Morrison Win Before the Highest Tribunal. Washington. Samuel (ioinnera, John Mitchell mid Frank Morrison, presl dent, vice president and secretary of the American Federnfon or laibor, re siu-i-llvcly, stepped hem within the shadow of the Jail 011 Monday, when Ihe supreme court of Ihu Tnlled Stales set uslde their aenlences of lln prlsoiiment tor contempt gruwll.g out ot tlio litigation between tlm Muck Stove and ICingu company of HI. L-m ail, I the feUermlnii. Tlm basis of the court's uplnlon was thai ihn proceeding brourtit ugalnat the labor of! leers was for civil con- 'I'l which could be punished only . by Ihe ImiKislilon of a linn. The sent- ' erne of , lower court to Imprison I incut, was the penally for rr. initial lonn-mpt and lu the premises, therefore, there-fore, It was not 11 legal punishment. ! |