Show fIE NEW YORK1OY rIf J j Governor Hill Intervenes in Tiicir I Behalf ALBANY N Y Oot 11 Governor Hill has I commuted to fifteen days each the terms of imprisonment of Michael Stroh and a number 1 num-ber of other boycotters who were convicted with him and sentenced to imprisonment for terms ranging from a year and a half to three years and eight months These are the men who forced Brewer Theiss to pay a larga sum of money to secure the removal of the boycott on his beer on the ground that the sum extorted had been expended in the prosecution of the boycott Governor Hill makes the point that these men did not know that they were violating the law in doing do-ing as they did such a construction of their acts never having before been lad down by the courts that they did not demand this money secretly or for their own use that the money was actually expended in the boycott and that the money collected from Theiss was returned to the Union which advanced ad-vanced it The application of the law having hav-ing been established and the Governor having assurances both from the prisoners and from the Central Labor Union that they will hereafter here-after implicitly obey it and refrain from exacting damages for the expense of the prosecution of boycotts the ends of justice have been attained hence the commutation which he grants stipulates distinctly that future violators of this statute need expect no clemency from him Undl the commutation day commu-tation the terms of the prisoners expire to |