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Show uu GQMPERS Will W APOLOGIZT 10 COURT ST. LOUIS, July 4 Waiving tho guilt or innocence of the McNamnra brothers and only for the sake of argument, ar-gument, Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, at ft protest meeting here today, declared de-clared it would be better for murderers murder-ers to go uncaught than to have a condition prevail where it is possible for accused men to be kidnaped to remove them from the jurisdiction of one state to another. At onestage of his address he ro-forred ro-forred to his own experiences In the courts. "Who knows where I shall bo in a few weeks?" he asked, "for I go to Washington where I am not to be cnlled upon to answer for contempt, but to be given an opportunity c opologlzlng to the court. Well, If it is to be a choice between an apology and jail, I expect I shall have to go to Jail." His was one of several speeches at what was 'designated as a safe and sano Fourth celebration under the auspices of tho Central Trades and Labor La-bor union and the Building Trades council. |