| Show FOLLY OP LABOR Samuel president of the Federation of describes the arrest of John J. Mc-Namara as first act of a tragedy contemplating the assassination of organized If organized labor is ever assassinated the deathblows will not be dealt by private detectives or by the police or by employers or by capital or by the The blame upon the labor leaders that have misled Gompers asserts that in the arrests for the Los Angeles murders whole affair smacks of well-laid Prank secretary of the calls the arrests infamous William J. secretary of the Building Trades Department of the suggests that the incriminating dynamite and infernal machines found by the detectives placed there by the While Morrison and Spencer were trying to establish a capitalistic conspiracy to discredit organized the chief of detectives of the Chicago police department was making public the confession of Ortie E. in which told the details of a dozen dynamite explosions which cost lives and destroyed property worth more than As the dispatches describe his confession carelessly of tho telling r he how the plosive was how he had visited union and had been paid for his death-dealing WOrk Morrison and Spencer will doubtless regard this confession as a police perpetrated for the benefit of the but this much is Tho explosions described by were not they were The mangled corpses were not they were The ruined properties were not they were Some-tody committed these They all grew out of labor They are all matters of The men who were killed did not destroy themselves in to help the discredit organized nor the men whose property was wrecked wreck it themselves in order to cast reproach upon the Gompers and his associates have no words of denunciation for these infamous but they are quick to protest against the arrest of men charged with Laving been implicated in the No more disastrous course could bo followed by responsible leaders of organized Nothing will do more to alienate public sympathy for organized labor and set back the clock of industrial In spite of all its foolishness and unionism has accomplished a great work which has hardly more than begun but this work will never be completed if organized labor undertakes to sympathize with all the crimes that are committed in its The accused men in the Los Angeles case are entitled to all their constitutional guarantee a speedy and impartial trial but if they are guilty they are not are |
