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Show Four Hundred Representatives of Organized Labor La-bor Take Decided Stand in Ironworkers' Case Addresses by Miss Anna Maley and Murray King. IT" . Declaring that the action taken In the case of John J. McNamara was contrary to tho provisions of the constitution con-stitution of the United States and that the life of the union official has been jeopardized without due process of law, four hundred wage-earners of this city raised their voices in protest of the action last evening. The meeting was held at Union Labor La-bor hall under the auspices of the Ogden Og-den Trades and Labor assembly and the Ogden branch of the Socialist party. Joseph Oliver, a former president presi-dent of the Trades and Labor assembly, assem-bly, presided as chairman and the speakers wore Murray King, a representative repre-sentative of ihe Union Labor Political League of Salt Lake City, and Miss Anna Maley, a national organizer for the Socialist party. John O'Neill, editor of the Miners' Magazine, official organ of the Western West-ern Federation of Miners, was to havo been present, but after "his arrival in the. city yesterday afternoon he received re-ceived a telegram announcing the serious seri-ous Illness of his wife and was forced to leave for his home in Denver at once The gathering was one of the most enthusiastic labor meetings ever held in Ogden and vory clearly voiced tho Indignatiou which is felt by union labor la-bor as a Tesult of McNamara's kidnapping. kid-napping. The address of Murray King was an excellent resume of the case as well as a review of the condition con-dition of organized labor in a United Uni-ted States during the past tfircc decades. dec-ades. He said that when a man Is arrested ar-rested he Is looked upon as an individual, indi-vidual, but that in the case of John J. McNamara it was a different state of affairs. The Molly McGulres, nine in number, and the participants of tho Haymarket riot were railroaded to the gallows without a protest, claimed the speaker. The first widespread protest pro-test of organize labor came In the Moyer-Haywood case and this protest was tho result, of agitation by the Socialist So-cialist press of tho country, "A. country is civilized to the extent that labor resists," declared Mr. King. "The only dignity Is Us resistance. Union labor and the Socialist party of the working class are the very textures tex-tures of civilization. Indiana protected protect-ed Taylor, a republican politician, for seven years against oxtradition, but it would not protect labor over night " The Salt Lake man then stated that the McNamara case was an attempt to place the stigma of a vicious crime upon organized Jnbor to pave tho way for its destruction. In conclusion he said: "Socialism comes out of organized organ-ized labor nnd the answer to the McNamara Mc-Namara question will be the election of working men to overy office In the state of California.'' Miss Maley claimed that McNamara had been given no chance to prortjicp evidence In his behalf, that the Ironworkers' Iron-workers' union official had been frisked frisk-ed from tho stato of Indiana to the land of his enomics and to the city of tho labor-hating Otis. "Unltm labor has been on trial in Los Angelea for (ho past seven years and Jt has always al-ways been condemned," said the speaker. "The right of organisation Is denied tho worklng-'olass in Los "Angeles; rollgious bodies organize, fratornal societies so-cieties organize and employers organize, orga-nize, yet they would prevent tho organization or-ganization of labor that is tho Justice accorded tho working clnss In Los Angolos. Tho working class jiiakes ylush blankets for the pug dogs of , the owners of the tools of Industry and then clothes its own children in cheap calico. "It was public opinion that stoned Paul and that crucified Jesus Christ. If McNamara Is hanged hang-ed public opinion will havo much to do with It and it Is the duty of the workers to help mold public opinion If they would 'save themselves "In order to influence public opinion opin-ion capital would make It appear that the leaders of labor have done a dastardly das-tardly crime. Labor had nothing to gain by such a crime capital would gain more by it than labor," said Miss Maley, in conclusion. At tho conclusion of the addresses the following resolutions were read and unanimqusV adopted: "Whereas, Tho constitution of the United States ordains that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty liber-ty or property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its Jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, and "Whereas, One John J. McNamara, heretofore residing In the city of Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Ind., has been deprived of liberty and put in jeopardy of his life without said process of law, and "Whereas, Tho violation of the constitutional con-stitutional rights of the individual is n proceeding which should be firmly opposed by all freedom-loving people and such violation is even more dangerous dan-gerous when it is aimed at the right of the working class to unite for Its own defense, therefore, be it "Resolved, That wo call upon the members of the working class everywhere every-where to raise their voices in protest against the outrage which has been committed in the kidnapping of tho secretary of the Structural Iron Workers, Work-ers, thereby serving notice upon the ruling class that the aroused workers demand the full protection of the constitution con-stitution and the laws to the members of (heir class when accused of breach of tlie law " |