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WILL GO TO JAIL / |er Than Pay Fine If Con' victed of Contempt DECLARES GOMPERS Neither Would He Allow the Fedora Hon nf I .nlutp ti> Pur I* ti\? III... Supreme Court Derision Makes Union Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade. / (L \ Denver, Col., Nov. 1 f>.?President Goinpers, at today's session of the Convention of the American Federation of Labor, declared that if he were found guilty and fined in thV) contempt proceedings against him at Washington he would go to jail before be would pay his fine or before he would allow the Federation to pay the fine for him. This statement was made during the discussion of the report of the committee on the treasurer's report. The committee recommended that im~ mediately following the adjournment b^Tne Convention, the executive committee shall take up the proposition of placing its funds where they may he removed from danger of attach^ merit. 4 Several suggestions were mndfl one being that the funds he depos^J ed in Canada and another that <mI tlflcates of deposits be taken ou^^| some other name than the D. O. Ramsey, of the elec<^^H workers, declared: "We had a chance to plr^^^^H funds beyond thb reach of th^^^^^J would take them, but we le^^^^^H on November 3. The only^^^^^ protect our money is to chr^^^^^f Mr. Oompers warned the that if a way were found to funds, the Courts would appoint a receiver, not ne^^^^^H to secure in some way the funds, but to get the mone^^^^H cont ri butted. Hy request Mr. CJompers the status of the Danbury ha^^^^^J "Our standing is menaced Courts of law," he said. "The matter of the applica^^^^H the Sherman anti-trust law to^^^^f has reached final adjustment United States Supreme Cour^^^^f matter how the Danbury case^^^^f elded that will not alter the^^^^H one jot. The United States Court has said the final wo^^^^| the law of this country is tha^^^^f organizations of this country conspiracies and comblnations^^^^^ "Under the Sherman law business cannot be con<^^^^| much less honest stralghtf^^^^f labor organizations. With re^^^^J to the case against me in the of Columbia I want to say thaj^^^H never consent that the Federation of Labor shall one cent of ftnc for me. I doi^^^^H to go to jail, but I will not^^^^f submit to the Federation for me." Mr. Gompers declared that^^^^f cislons of the Supreme Court one effect, namely, to tie of labor to their work, crl]>^^^^| men of labor in their right or their right not to work. "These decisions," he said, result in fettering men today der to enslave them for all tim^^J coma. "I am not la touch with the odratlc party; second, I am not? democrat, and third, I am confldom W never will be a Democrat. I owe mv!egi*nce to no party. I am a trades unionist. "When the Democratic party mad* our contentions its own," said Mr (rompers, "it would not only have been ingratitude but cowardice tc. desert them. If Bryan had been elected with the hosts of organized labor back of him it would h given spirit to human freedom The report of tin; committ the treasurer's report, with itj^^H omiiundatlons, was unanimouA^^^^ One >Ian and ] I n between man is wounded bloody hers he for hours, Ben t hel animals the after arrest hliu. vent ling J. D. KQGAN, SCOUT I TELLS A STORY OF THE WAR ' OF SECESSION. How lie Was Captured and Treated i lly Sliermairs "llumniers" in OrangeburK County During the War. The following sketch will appear In Gol. U. It. Brooks' forthcoming publication, "Butler and His Cavalry in tho War of Secession, 18GI1SG5." i Atkins, Ark., Oct, 30, 1008. I Dear Col. Brooks: )k 1 will give you a little sketch I saw it in and around Columbiu^^H It was about the middle my own horse and proceed to lumbin as fast as horseflesh The captured horse pines me iuui> oi iii'ii year.? a 1 H a \v i n < o i to w i Passing Knot's hiiu i( the mill ward, l?o c a i