The San Francisco call., 1910-10-05
The Los Angeles Tragedy Is an Infamous
Crime. forWhich ThereMustB tBeAtone1nent

heart of our whole civilization is that this
terror. is still abroad. The tiger turks
among us. The rattlesnake hides in our
house. It is not to be wondered that all
civilized humanity answers the alarm.
AS was to have been expected the
Times, bitter and unrelenting enemy of
organized labor, charges the atrocity to its
arch foe, as do many of the Times adher-
ents and sympathizers. AS far as has been
disclosed that charge is based, not on evl-
dence, but on Inference, and the crime is
too terrible to be laid at the door of any
man or organization of men without at least
prima facie proof.
Admittedly the relations of the Times,
Of Otis and Of Zeehandelaar on the one
side and organized labor on the other have
been openly and fercely hostile, but if
organized labor could even tolerate, much
less participate in such evil, then organ
lied labor has been keeping double set
of books and double set of principles
all the years of it's existence, exhibit
ing and processing one set in public and
cleaving to the other in secret. For such a
deed of iniquity is repugnant to every
avowed principle Of union labor, and foreign
to all that the world knows Of the lives and
works and beliefs of the leaders of that
widespread movement. Is it thinkable that
the millions of American workingmen and
working women who make up organized
labor-who are organized labor-counte-
nance such infamy as that of the Los An
geles horror? Is it believable that they
would knowingly associate with men
capable of inspiring or doing such iniqulty
The truth is that whoever did this thing
struck not only organized society but
organized labor Whatever their purpose
and motive, the dynamiters must have
known that it was impossible to destroy
the Times; that the first sequel of the crime
must be terrible accusation against organ
lied labor; that until it could be proved
otherwise many must believe the accusa-
ton well founded; that, lacking capture
and conviction of somebody, the charge
must lie indefinitely in the minds of many
a stain upon union labor. Organized labor's
worst enemy could not have contrived a
worse thing against that cause.
So it is especially the business of organ
lied labor to assist organized society in the
laying bare of the last detail of this crime
From the heads Of the parent bodies to the
newest member of the Gttlest union it is
organized labor's part to help run down the
dynamiters and drag from them truth as
to who, if anybody, inspired them, as tc
their motives, as to the source of the
money spent in the Times outrage.
Organized society must vindicate itself
and so must organized labor. Society cal
not endure the presence and the fell poten
tiality within itself of such human tigers
labor can not rest under the charge, how
ever i'll founded, that it is morally respon
sible for such an evil. That labor appre
ciates the situation is manifest from action
already taken and foreshadowed in tn
direction Of a close and complete co-opera
ton with all the other agencies of out
ragged society now moving to catch an1
punish the dynamiters.
ne, will stop the Abe Martin