Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1923, Page 5

20 FO ON MRS FALS Verdict Against Coronado Company Claiming Damages in 1914 Strike. By the Associated Press. FORT SMITH, Ark., October 29.—A verdict for the defense was returned Yesterday in United States district court under instructions from Judge John C. Pollock in the suit of the Coronado Coal Company and others against the United Mine Workers of America in which damages of $2,222,000 was sought as a result of alleged property damage and resultant interference with non-union coal mining in the Hartford Valley coal field during the miners" strike in 1914. Judge Pollock held that the coal companies had fafled to establish ju- sisdiction In the federal court under terms of the Sherman anti-trust law, ruling ¢hat they had not shown that the property destruction resulted from & conspiracy to interfere with the interstate commerce. Notice was given that the case would be appealed. - Miners’ Second Victory. ‘Today's action was the second vic- tory for the mine workers. The su- preme court last year ruled that in the first trial, which resulted in a ver- dict of approximately $700.000 for the plaintiff, the coal companies had fail- ed to establish a basis for the suit under the Sherman law, and ordered a new trial. The suit was brought on the conten- tion that destruction of property dur- ing labor disturbances incident to the strike of miners in 1914 resulted in the Rampering of mining operations in the properties of the coal com- panies to such an extent as to inter- fere with interstate traffic in non- union mined coal Judge Pollock held that the evi- dence had failed to establish a direct purpose to interfere with interstate commerce, but rather a conspiracy to prevent the operation of the mines 28 non-union workings. The ruling also pointed out that under the Constitution of the United Mine Workers no individual can bind the entire organization: that until the executive board acts no one is bound, except individuals who may be involved in any activity, and upon that grounds he held that the inter- national union was not shown to be | bound by the acts of those responsible for property damage during the strike. Must Show Conspiracy. *“Before y aintiffs can ask for a ver- dict against the defendants. or any of them,” Judge Pollock said In di- Tecting the verdict, “they must es- tablish a conspiracy to do what was done there; they must establish that every one against whom they ask Judgment and a verdict knowingly participated in what occurred: they must establish not only that property was lost through the conspiracy, but that the conspiracy was formed for the direct purpose of restraining or monopolizing interstate commerce. - “Almost every act affects interstate commerce. It was never the inten- tlon of Congress that anything ex- cept something directly Interfering with_interstate commerce should be taken out of the state jurisdiction. “We must always have a line of demarkation. The Supreme Court on much the same evidence, in this same . had placed this case on one side” Judge Pollock held that the mining of coal is mot interstate commerce. and the fact that it may be shipped later in interstate commerce does not alter the situation. Union' Connection Question. On the question as to whether the evidence connected the general or- ganization—the international union— with the Hartford Valley _troubles, Judge Pollick said: “They have the Tight to unionize the entire country. Not only have they unionized the coal miners of many states, but the evi- dence in this case shows they have members in foreign countries. “Before they ask any one to become a member he has a _right to say “What obligation am I taking? On what terms? What powers have they to bind me to what they do or to bind my money I have contributed? “They have put these powers into the constitution and the Supreme Court has construed that constitution to mean that whenever the executive board representing all of them, put there for that purpose—that what- ever they do binds every one of them. Untll they do act no ome is bound but the individual. The international union is not bound.” Conspiracy Against Bache. In _declaring that the evidence failed to establish a direct purpose to interfere with the interstate com- merce, the court declared that it had shown rather a conspiracy to pre- vent Franklin Bache of Philadelphia, president of the Coronado Coal Com- pany at the time of the labor dis- orders in 1914 and one of the plain- tiffs to the suit. from operating his mines as non-union workings. “If Bache had given a bond that he wouldn’t ship coal out of the state if they would let him operate non- unfon they wouldn't have permitted it,” Judge Pollock said. nstitution of the suit came close upon the heels of the miners strike in 1914 and has moved through the federal courts to the Supreme Court, Where the verdict awarding damages was reversed. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY | @ @@ @00 B FEELS EARTHQUAKE Shocks Center Abont Marked Tree, Ark.—No Reported. MEMPHIS, Tenn., October 20.—Dis- tinct earthquake shocks, apparently centered in the vicinity of “Marked Tree, Ark., were felt throughout the lower Mississippi valley between 11:15 and 11:20 o’clock yesterday. Re- ports- received -here tell of excite- ment In hundreds of cities and towns within a radius of 150 miles of this city. The only damage reported was at Marked Tree, where windows were shattered and several old chimneys were razed. The St. Francis river ‘was visibly affected, while the walls of a new buliding under construction in the business district were cracked by_the vibrations. Various towns south and west of this city reported distinct tremors. Newspaper offices here were deluged with telephone calls following the tremors. Hundreds of persons in the city felt the vibrations, but no dam- age- resulted. Earth tremors felt yesterday at Mempl.is and in Arkansas and Mis- sissippl were recorded on the seismo- graph at Georgetown University. Father Tondorf, the university's seis- mologist, sald the tremors were “very slight.” ~ They began shortly after noon and continued about a minute and a half. TWO DIE IN BLAST. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., October 29.— Two men were killed and a negro seriously injured as a result of an explosion_at the Stockham Pipe and Fittings Company plant in East Bir- mingham yesterday. —_— Great for Rheumatic ‘When rheumatism settles in any of your joints and causes agory, distress or misery, piease remem- ber that Joint-Ease is the one remedy that brings quick and last- ing relief. It matters not how chronic or aggravated a case may be—rub on Joint-Ease and relief is sure to follow. Joint-Ease is for joint troubles only and is a clean, stainless preparation that Peoples Drug Stores and druggists everywhere are i recommending. — Advertise- ment. That dangerous . cough—stop it! before you have to take more costly measures. 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