Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. American Federation of Labor Court Records, 1908-1919
Collection Number: 5360
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. American Federation of Labor Court Records, 1908-1919
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5360
Abstract:
The collection contains legal documents pertaining to the case of Buck's Stove and
Range Company vs. the American Federation of Labor, et al., 1907-1913, and a number
of documents by the American Anti-Boycott Association.
Creator:
Buck's Stove and Range Company
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
In a six-year legal battle ending in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Buck's Stove and
Range Company sought, and ultimatly failed, to have an American Federation of Labor
boycott declared illegal on the grounds of anti-trust law.
As a result of a strike against the Buck's Stove and Range Company in St. Louis,
Mo., the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) placed the company on the list
of firms not solicited by organized labor in its official paper, THE AMERICAN FEDERATIONIST,
in May 1907. The company responded by filing suit against the A.F. of L., alleging
that the boycott was in violation of anti-trust laws, and, in December 1907, obtained
an injunction against the boycott. When the leadership of the A.F. of L. refused to
comply with the injunction, leaders Samuel Gompers (president), Frank Morrison (secretary),
and John Mitchell (vice-president) were found in contempt of court and sentenced to
jail terms. After drawn out legal proceedings, the Supreme Court overruled the contempt
charge on a technicality (1913).
Legal documents filed before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia include:
application fo a temporary restraining order against the defendants (Samuel Gompers,
Frank Morrison, and John Mitchell); petition to have defendents ruled in contempt;
copies of affidavits filed in court by plaintiff for use in hearing of application
for temporary injunction against defendants (1907-1908).
Legal documents filed before the Court of Appeals, Destrict of Columbia include an
appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia; brief and supplemental
brief for appellee (Buck's Stove and Range Company); transcript of record of appeal
from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Gompers et al., appellants (1908).
Finally, legal documents filed before the Supreme Court of the United States, including
numerous briefs and supplemental briefs filed in behalf of Buck's Stove and Range
Company (1910-1913).
Also includes publications by the American Anti-Boycott Association relating to the
case, including arguments in support of a guilty ruling in the contempt case against
Gompers, Morrison, and Mitchell; arguments in the contempt proceedings in the Court
of Appeals of the District of Columbia; and transcript of the decision finding Gompers,
Morrison, and Mitchell guilty of contempt (n.d.).
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INFORMATION FOR USERS
Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. American Federation of Labor Court Records #5360.
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924.
Mitchell, John, 1870-1919.
Morrison, Frank, 1859-1949.
American Anti-Boycott Association.
Bucks Stove and Range Company.
American Federation of Labor
Subjects:
Antitrust law--United States.
Boycott--United States.
Labor laws and legislation--United States.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Decision of Justice Wright in contempt proceedings against Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison
and John Mitchell, adjudging them guilty of contempt of court and imposing sentence
thereof; together with newspaper editorial expression of the country thereon
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1908 |
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Scope and Contents
Published by American Anti-Boycott Association
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Brief for Appellee
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1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Brief for respondent
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1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
Motion of consolidate and advance
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1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Brief for the Buck's Stove and Range Company
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1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Arguments in contempt proceeding
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1909 |
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Scope and Contents
Published by the American Anti-Boycott Association
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Copies of Affidavits filed in court by plaintiffs for use on hearing of application
for a temporary injunction
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1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Application for a temporary injunction
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Brief for the appellee
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1908 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Supplemental brief for the appellee
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1908 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Supplemental and reply brief for appellant in No. 190, respondent in no. 372, and
appellee in no. 394
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1910 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Transcript of record
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1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Petition to have Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell, defendants, adjudged
guilty of contempt
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1908 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Arguments of Daniel Davenport, Esq., General Counsel of the American Anti-Boycott
Association in support of the decision of Judge Wright adjudging Samuel Gompers et
al. guilty of contempt of court, and sentencing them to jail
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1910 |
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Scope and Contents
Published by the American Anti-Boycott Association
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Arguments in support of petition to have Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison and John Mitchell,
defendants, adjudged guilty of contempt
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1908 |
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Scope and Contents
Published by the American Anti-Boycott Association
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Appeal from the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
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1909 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Brief by committee
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1913 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Supplemental and reply brief for appellant in no. 190, respondent in no. 372, and
appellee in no. 394
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1919 |