Show PRESIDENT LYNCHS STATEMENT INDIANAPOLIS Ind Oct 1 Pres President ident James M Lynch Inch of the Inter International International national Typographical union today mado made the tho following statement relative to the tue explosion which wrecked the UIO plant of or the th Los Lo Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times has for fOI ninny many man years yea been heen a bitter unrelenting and unreasoning enemy of trade un unionism and anti it Is characteristic of ot o the tile Times management that Immediately after the thc explosion which wrecked Its plant and ancl without awaiting a any loves Investigation as to tho the cause of the catas cams catastrophe catastrophe It should charge the lie disaster to lo the trades ratios unions as 1 was done Ione by bytho b time the Times Time assistant general manager The Tho Typographical union resents resent and refutes this charge Wo We havo have de lie defended fended ourselves against the tho attacks made by b tho tim Times as best we wo could but Jilt we have always alays fought fair The International Typographical Union is not a n law lawbreaking breaking dynamiting ing log institution Its record of more than sixty years existence Is 18 an hon hone honorable one ono and entirely free from re roo resort resort j sort Gort to violence of any n kind It Tt has haR soll its cause and auth reached its IL present position of strength th and influence sole solely solely ly I through the thc justice of f Its contention anti and an tho the lawful and orderly ord rl manner In which its alms aims have been prosecuted prosecute ed e and anti made effective No one regrets the Times catastrophe pho phe more than I do 10 and especially the tho loss of or life lire following the thc explosion On the thc other hand we are nrc determined to protect ourselves against the op opportunity that will be embraced by b General Otis and his subordinates to attempt to fasten the explosion on the trades unions Today I caused to be iC sent to our representatives In Los Angeles Angel the following telegram In conjunction with ith the thc president and the tho board of trustees of No take c such measures as ns may my appear necessary to protect the thc International Typographical union and local union from froni any an charge of complicity with alleged dynamiting of the Times of offices flees Reports Report convince us UK that the tho explosion was vas caused by b faulty fault gas gm mains and due dim entirely to unsanitary condition of the time Times plant |