Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-09
CAPITAL AGAINST LABOR
Present Trial Murderous Attack on
the Workingmen.
ORCHARD A VILLAIN AND SPY
President Of the International Brother
hood of Stationary Engineers Uses
Some Strong Language.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June 8.-'If Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone are found guilty OF in
stigating or committing the crimes with
which they are charged the labor unions
Of the. American Federation Of Labor will
be satisfied to let justice take its course.
In the event OF their conviction, the unions
will repudiate them and will feel no more
concern over their end than they would
over the punishment of any other crimi-
nal"
This statement was made today by TIM
othy Healy, president Of the International
Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen, labor
member Of the executive committee Of the
National Civic Federation and one of the
most prominent union men in New York
city.
But continued Mr.. Healy, "Moyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone won't be found guilty.
They are as innocent as either you or /.
The whole affair is put-up job-a low
down, murderous attack on the part of I'M
scrupulous capitalists against poor work.
ingmen. The Citizens Alliance is at the
bottom of it. In order to break up the
labor organizations in Colorado, this alli-
ance has resorted to the cowardly and das-
tardly means of accusing innocent men of
horrible list Of murders. 1t is Infamous.
treacherous, terrible.
Charges Plot.
Through Orchard, the villain, the spy.
the murderous seoundrel, the rich mine
owners have sought to put dollars in their
pockets by numbering innocent citizens, and
thus causing the death of labor organiza-
lions. The Citizens Alliance, composed
of mine owners and capitalists, has en-
ployed clever detectives, and men such
as that scoundrel Sherman Bell, to weave
net around Meyer, Haywood and Petit
bone to put them out of the way. They
have left no stone unturned to complete and
strengthen their dastardly trap.
1T was all planned out in detail long
ago, and now the meshes have fallen about
the innocent ones and the fight is on. I
have every confidence, however, In barrow,
and 1 believe the defense will make good
and succeed in thwarting the dark plans OF
the alliance.
do you believe Orchard guilty of the
crimes he has confessed to-" asked the re-
porter.
Most certainly. He is the worst crimi-
nal the world has ever seen, with the ex-
ception, perhaps, of Jack the Ripper. He
committed the crimes all right, and he did
them for money, but that money did not
come from the Western Federation Of
Miners. 1 don't know where it did come
from.
His idea Of the Purpose.
tOf course, we all know that Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone are radicals and
socialists, but they would not resort to the
crimes Of which they are accused to accom-
pish their ends
But do you think, Mr. Healy, that the
Citizens Alliance would dare to use such
methods merely to gain their financial
ends?'
do believe it? l know it. You remem-
Der when the trouble was on in the mines
at Cripple Creek that when the sheriff re-
fused to send the miners out of the coun-
try as fast as the mine owners wanted
them to- the alliance held a conference to
which the sheriff was summoned. You re-
member, too. that over the council table
hung a moose. and that the sheriff was told
that if he did not resign at once he would
be hanged in cold blood. Then the ALI
ance appointed another one of their own,
despite the fact that the real sheriff was
elected in the count.
Il do not know who the men behind this
movement of the alliance are, but in time
their names will come out and then there
will be something doing. They will learn
that they can't carry on such high-handed
criminality as this without suffering for It. -