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 labor union leaders from a boycott or from publishing any statement that there was or had been a boycott.
[1] In 1907 the metal polishers in the Buck Stove and Range Company in St. Louis, Missouri, struck for a nine-hour day.
For their refusal to obey, Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison were sentenced to prison for contempt.
Buck's Stove president James Van Cleave had died in 1910 and his successor resolved his dispute with the workers.
The Supreme Court overturned the convictions in Gompers v. United States,[2] because the proceedings had not been instituted within the three-year statute of limitations imposed by the Clayton Antitrust Act.