Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-09-25 | Page 16 | The Wrong Man

I if I The W Wrong ng Man Manof J I 4 I 1 of John T. T McNamara mara business busi- busi ness agent for the Indianapolis iron workers workers workers' workers workers' work- work ers ers ers' union on charges of bla blackmail sho should ld erye rye as a var warning ing to union workers s. s Mc- Mc t Namara once c convicted of participation in m In a aT in which h two twenty-two persons T dynamite plot vere were killed was hardly the man to represent r union workers who do not believe in m that I iI t of f 0 t thing h. h mg l r to understand It is not difficult however it l McNamara came cam to res resume m a Po positionS 1 44 ff f power A certain attaches to I radical utterances which often those given to I 1 tuv JJ develops o into a Q sort of hero worship lift When ll McNamara came out of prison he undoubtedly I dIy edly was considered a t martyr by his fellow I tY r wor workers ers who lost sight of the fact that 1 i labor representation demands a man I who vho o can command the respect t of the general public irrespective of labor affiliations t r After he served time for participation in inthe in the me dynamiting of the Los Los' Angeles Times d McNamara was not this kind of ofa a m man n. n Perhaps Perhaps Per- Per haps the mistake made in restoring him to ljj jj power is best emphasized by this newer con rc n. n We have passed the stage where vJ fc J lab labor r disputes are wars vars between capital and labor lab r. r The third element the pu public 1 c is t to be considered 1 id red in industrial conflicts f 0 For this reason it is' is important for labor- labor f men n to dema demand d of their officers the same Ji code of conduct that they themselves 4 follo follow Reasonable and nd respectable representatives will serve the cause of labor far I more than radicals who would seek to impose impose im- im pose their will through force McNamara i is ot r representative present tiye of the aver average ge leadership and his conviction should not be considered i reflective of the labor movement standing the fact many fact many will use it to this end Labor abor can escape these unjust reflections only py Iby y exercising the greatest care in the selection leaders leaders 1 A. A J