Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-11-17


aThat the Times building was
than a score aof innocent lives sacri-
feed to iabor-union vengeance is an
sestablishG fact The gas explosion
theory began and ended in malice"
From this 1t might be supposed
that same evidence had been discover
ed duplicating union men. Such was
not the oase, No one had been ac-
cused. no one was even under suspi-
cion. Not a shred of evidence as to
the identity of the lynamiters--if
there were dynamiters had been dis
covered, or alleged to nave been dis
covered by anyone, aot even the
Times itself.
The Times Lays Foundation For Sec
ond Haymarket Case.
Wednesday, October 5, the Times
printed an editorial arguing that.
should the alleged crime be- brought
home to the door Of any member of
a labor union, though e be found that
they had neither part in nora Knowl-
edge }of the crime, the leaders of or
ganized labor ii the State of Califor-
MIA should be hanged as instigators;
in other words, that the barbarous
principal empteyed to execute innes
cent persons Subsequent to the Hay
market affair. twenty three years ago,
be resurrectedf to bring about the
death of men whom the members of
California labor unions have elected
to their executive offices.
October the Times printed the
headlines: Connecting the Leaders.
Tveitmoe's Friend Sought as Dyna-
inter- The evidence upon which it
was sought toNbase these statements
was so utterly inconsquential that no
other newspaper, NOT even those
which seem to have joined the Times
in the conspiracy to lay the blame on
organized labor, made any mention OF
it.
Finally, from that day to this, the
Times has daily through insituation
and iIlnuendo attempted to rivet up
on fh public mind the belief that I'M
ion men active in the existing strikes
in Los Angeles planned and ordered
the dynamiting of it's building, al
though it has been unable to present
the slightets .evidenc. to support
such a belief.
Inasmuch as there are many per-
sons of fair mind who are not &C
ouainted with General Harrison Gray
Otis and his newspapes, nor with the
industrial istuazion in Los Angeles,
and, who, therefore, seeing bold and
UNQUALIFIED assertions that dynamite
was used to blow up tle Times build
ing, and that unioni.ts where the
|dynamiters, would naturally suppose
that there existed. evidence to support
such assertions it would seem i'm
portant to shed some light upon these
matters. -HK
As a publication, tn Los Angeles
Times is VIGOROUSLY throughout the
world as having no rival as hostile
and unscrupulous enemy, not only to
,inionism, but to progre. generally.
On the subject of Industrial free
DOM" it is no exaggeration to say
that General Otis is insane. Otis
war against 1nionism has always been
matter of principle, not of pocket
book. Years ago his assaults on the
Typographical Union srought him to
he verge of bankruptcy, but his
fanaticism drove him 20 fight on.
syIt8 A.lIGs CcitI AttS -
Unionisnf
The dream of Genera! Otis life for
The past twenty years has been the
determination of unionism in Los
Angeles, and there has not been q
trick so low, calumny 80 vile, that
ne has not resorted to It if he thought
it would work toward hat end.
Repeatedly, when employers have
expressed a willingne $. to treat with
their employees ON basis of equality,
Otis has resorted to blackmail to COM
pei them to stand our for the open
shop"
Otis allied himself tith the South
ern Pacific railroad ma hine and thus
became 4 power in politics, in order
that he might use Thu influence, In
all it's ramifcations, against organized
labor.
otis created the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association the Citl-
zens Alliance of Los Angeles, and
gained control of the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce, to use them
as weapons against organized labor.
Otis acquird other publications,
notably the Daily Jou nal and the
Daily Herald. He punished the lat
Ter under Other nominal ownership,
using it in a pretended fight against
him own policies, in order to gain a
clientele of readers beyond the reach
of the Times, SO as TO propagate
among them later for his own ends.
Otis hired spies to Join the unions
and mingle with union men, in the
Ehope Of securing evidence of criminal
lity OF other evidence which he might
lnse to their detriment
Trumpeting abroad the report that
unionist were plotting to do him
| violence, Otis made 81 his editorial
lrooms an arsenal, then employed
very means at his &C 1nand TO goad
union men to attack h;in or to make
| 4 demonstration in front of his Office.
| IN order to furnish al excuse for 9
massacre.
Otis Has Dipped His Pen n Infar1y
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