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Show 1ISI HISSES I1IS0F1IH Pleads for Tolerance in Attitude Atti-tude of Laboring Men Toward To-ward Trust Magnate. SAN I'"UANCIfcCO, Sent. 'J. Clarence S. Darrow of Chicago, addressing a Labor, La-bor, day throng hero today, counseled tolerance In the attitude of working' men toward William M. Wood, president of tho AmcrJi-iiu Woulm unipany, who was indicted in Massachusetts on a charge of having conspirrd to incriminate labor unions, deplored the bitterness and violence vio-lence of industrial warfare and restated' his belief that. the McNamaras hud committed com-mitted only a "social" crime A!r. Darrow Kpok- discursively and .without fevvb7s"u'4ft( 'toi-AUnlonV vXbolrt, - imfrlendltf 'aUlludb toward life MrNaiharas after -.h el r confession. con-fession. "Labor's cause will not be, won by In ruins' against brollici-K who make mistakes." mis-takes." he said. Mr. Darrow's jncnlion of Mc Wood came after his elaboration of the main tliemo of his address thai labor and capital were opposed in a relentless strug-glo strug-glo for supremacy. "I have no desire to see Mr. Wood punished." ho said. "1 know that he, llko the'McNnmaras and Hko hundreds of other men on both sides, has been caught in a great machine, aud that such as are guilty arc guilty of social crimes only. In this great conflict, the individual Is not to he considered. Insofar aa responsibility re-sponsibility can be placed. It lies on men who have power and men who have brains with which to understand what Is happening. hap-pening. The world Is changing always and this change does not come without trouble and disaster." Mr. Darrow closed with a plea for the larger brotherhood of man. |