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Show LABOR LEADERS FINALLY WIN. Contempt Sentences Imposed by District Dis-trict of Columbia Judges Set Aside. Washington. The contempt sentences sen-tences imposed by the district supreme su-preme court on Samuel Gompers. John Mitchell and Frank -Iorrison, labor la-bor leaders, were set aside on Monday Mon-day by the supreme court for the etcend time as barred by the statute cf limitations. The decision settled the point that, contempts of court are crimes. The I oint has been raised in contempt tases throughout the country. Justice Just-ice Holmes said that contempts are Infractions of the law, visited with punishment as such, and if they were not crimes the court was in error as to the most fundamental characteristics character-istics of crimes as that word has been understood in Knglish speech. |