Show THE mcnamara iARA FUND 0 the facts and figures thus far obtainable tai relative to the amount subscribed by tho the various union laborers throughout tho the united states to assist the irana arc Namara mara brothers in their defense which came to such a sudden end some days ago age are arc mighty interesting they go to show that the circumstances of the poor laborers are taken very little into consideration when money is desired desir cil and no matter what tho the nature of the fund is the laborers have to take from their hard earnings and deny their families comforts in 0 order rd er that men higher up might grow fat and haic hac an esy easy time of it in view of the fact that the mcnamara brothers whose innocence was loudly proclaimed by the labor ae leaders ad after a fund of nearly two hundred thousand dollars had been collected and distributed plead guilty which means that the defense fund was worse than wasted it would appear to ono one on the outside that labor codes are sadly in need of revision ind and some of the leaders would serve the dr better it if they wera were kicked out ot of office I 1 following is al report ot of tho the irene moneys 4 collected and disbursed op oce winch was given to the public last friday tho the total amount received up to that date was and the total expenditures were no accounting is made of the sums received and spent since that time clarence darrow Dar roff chief of counsel tor for the aras had been paid it is stated that darrow was to pay lis his assistants from this amount in this connection local international union officials stated that it is understood darrow will not continuo continue his bis office in chicago local attorneys who have been looking after the he indianapolis end of the case have been paid leo M counsel tor for the iron workers union has received according to the report and henry segfred Ze gfred frank I 1 L an attorney of 01 toledo 0 0 was paid for legal services Fer vices given ivea in that city other items of expense are listed as follo s mcnamara namara buttons which were sold in all parts of the country 1120 ra stamps representatives expenses for addressing meetings printing and mailing american federation ol of labor weekly news letter postage and dentals in connection with mcnamara if picture films the te above figures aro are all the moro ni ro appalling when it is ie understood that thai clarence darrow chief counsel of the brothers and undoubtedly undoubtedly tho the leaders ot of tho the labor unions knew anew that the brothers were guilty as implied by their statements since the confes slona w p pre r illde ik ade 1 organized labor might bo be a good thing but more often the poor laborer suffers greater hardships because of organization the than lie he would were there no labor in existence the best thing for organ organized laed labor at it present is to get rid ot of some som 0 of the leaders |