Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. American Federation of Labor : legal documents, 1907-1913, bulk 1908-1910.

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Buck's Stove and Range Company vs. American Federation of Labor : legal documents, 1907-1913, bulk 1908-1910.

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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. Legal documents filed before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia include: application for a temporary restraining order against the defendants (Samuel Gompers, Frank Morrison, and John Mitchell); petition to have defendants 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, District 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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Morrison, Frank, 1859-1949

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Gompers, Samuel, 1850-1924

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Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) was President of the American Federation of Labor and a member of the President's First Industrial Conference in 1919. He was a member of the President's Unemployment Conference in 1921. ...

Buck's Stove & Range Company

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In a six-year legal battle ending in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Buck's Stove and Range Company sought, and ultimately 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 FEDERATI...

Mitchell, John, 1870-1919

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John Mitchell was born in Braidwood, Ill., on February 4, 1870. Between the ages of twelve and twenty he worked in the coal mines of Illinois, Colorado, and other states. Mitchell joined the United Mine Workers of America upon its founding in 1890, became an Illinois sub-district official in 1894, and was elected national vice-president in 1898. He assumed the presidency the following year. Mitchell's greatest success was the organizing of the Pennsylvania anthracite fie...

American Anti-Boycott Association

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