Buck Stove and Range Case

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In 1906 the metal polishers in the Buck Stove and Range Company in St. Louis, Missouri, struck for a nine-hour day. The American Federation of Labor put the company on their "unfair list", whereupon the company obtained a sweeping injunction forbidding this boycott. For refusal to obey, Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison were sentenced to prison for contempt, but did not serve. The case was outlawed in 1914 by the United States Supreme Court under the statute of limitations (see Clayton Act).

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  • Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.


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