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{{Infobox SCOTUS case
|Litigants=Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Co.
|ArgueDate=January 27
|ArgueDateB=30
|ArgueYear=1911
|DecideDate=May 15
|DecideYear=1911
|FullName=[[Samuel Gompers]], John Mitchell, and Frank Morrison v. Buck's Stove and Range Company
|USVol=221
|USPage=418
|ParallelCitations=31 S. Ct. 492; 55 [[L. Ed.]] 797; 1911 [[U.S. LEXIS]] 1746
|Prior=On appeal from the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia
|Subsequent=
|Holding=In part, [[court of appeals]] erred in treating [[contempt]] action as one for criminal contempt because the proceeding was in [[Equity (law)|equity]]; case is [[Mootness|moot]], in part.
|Majority=Lamar
|JoinMajority=''unanimous''
|LawsApplied=[[Sherman Antitrust Act]]
}}
'''''Gompers v. Buck's Stove and Range Co.''''', 221 U.S. 418 (1911), was a ruling by the [[United States Supreme Court]] involving a case of contempt for violating the terms of an injunction restraining [[trade union|labor union]] leaders from a [[boycott]] or from publishing any statement that there was or had been a boycott.<ref>{{ussc|name=Gompers v. Buck's Stove & Range Co.|221|418|1911}}.</ref>
==Facts==
In 1907 the metal polishers in the '''Buck Stove and Range Company''' in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], struck for a [[nine-hour day]]. After the [[American Federation of Labor]] put the company on its "[[unfair list]]," the company obtained a sweeping [[injunction]] forbidding this [[boycott]]. For their refusal to obey, [[Samuel Gompers]], [[John Mitchell (United Mine Workers)|John Mitchell]] and [[Frank Morrison (labor unionist)|Frank Morrison]] were sentenced to prison for [[contempt]].
==Judgment==
The Supreme Court dismissed the case, in part, as [[Mootness|moot]]. Buck's Stove president James Van Cleave had died in 1910 and his successor resolved his dispute with the workers. The court also reversed the contempt decision on the grounds that the proceedings should have been instituted by the court rather than the plaintiff (the Buck's Stove company).
In the second contempt trial held in 1912, the defendants were again found guilty and sentenced to prison. The Supreme Court overturned the convictions in ''Gompers v. United States'',<ref>{{ussc|name=Gompers v. United States|link=|volume=233|page=604|pin=|year=1914}}.</ref> because the proceedings had not been instituted within the three-year statute of limitations imposed by the [[Clayton Antitrust Act]].
==See also==
*[[History of labor law in the United States]]
*[[List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 221]]
==Notes==
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==References==
*[[James Truslow Adams|Adams, James Truslow]]. ''Dictionary of American History.'' New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940.
*[[Philip Foner|Foner, Philip S.]] ''History of the Labor Movement in the United States. Vol. 5: The AFL in the Progressive Era, 1910-1915.'' New York: International Publishers, 1980. Cloth {{ISBN|0-7178-0570-0}}; Paperback {{ISBN|0-7178-0562-X}}
*[[Joseph Rayback|Rayback, Joseph G.]] ''A History of American Labor.'' Rev. and exp. ed. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974. {{ISBN|1-299-50529-5}}
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[[Category:United States labor case law]]
[[Category:United States Supreme Court cases]]
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[[Category:Consumer boycotts]]
[[Category:Samuel Gompers]]