The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-11-11

o,ortere 70 he used in q massacre III
ooso the nnion men changed their
minds. There was no attempt to paraue
and NOT the slightest disturbance OF
threat of disturbance, yet large Oou!
of police was sent to patrol the streets
in the neighborhood of the Labor lem
nile TO iostle. abuse and threaten pea
estrians. seemingly for the purpose OIL
stirring them into resistance in order
that some of them might be beaten
and killed.
But ITnionism cannot be killed. As
LONG "a men and women are endowed
with ambition to broaden and expand
their lives. as long as there is prog
ress as long as there is hope, as long
as the world has virtue, as long as men
love their wives and children and wish
well for their neighbors, human beings
will organize into unions and the great
humanitarian movement of labor will
60 forward.
No nnion man blew up The Times.
There is no sane union man who could
not have predicted that the dynamit-
inb would be used as an excuse for a
general and indiscrimnate persecution
Of union men and women. Union men
generally are sorry for the wreck OF
The Times. sorry as human beings for
tbe individuals who suffered; sorry, as
union men. that General Otis has found
another weapon with which to assal
them.
If The Times was blown up by a
man who wished to wreck vengeance
on Otis. why did he act when Otis was
out of the city-which he must have
known-and when Chandler, Andrews
and all but minor employees were out
of the building? He could hardly have
designed to inflict a mere property loss
upon Otis: he must have known that
the building and its contents consti'
tuted only a small fraction of Otis for
tune.
If the dynamiters pictured by The
Times We're so expert and so clever
why did they make such a tremendous
success in one case and such a mis-
cradle failure in four? Why did they
plant one bomb 80 harmless that wher
it exploded it did not iniure an ordi
nary alarm clock? And why did they
leave attached to another "infernal ma
chine" so palpable clue as the manu-
facturer's tag?
What dynamiters with criminal in
tent would be so foolish as to pur
chase 500 pounds of the explosive al
one time? Why would three of them
instead of one, expose themselves t.
the scrutiny of the powder statesmen
The purchasers of the 500 pounds o
dynamite gave the names of Brysol
and Morris. Brysm and Morris hav'
| oc'h iotiHu anu, dCCoiuliiS W lit 1 lHc1
they correspond to the description Civ
en- of the dynamite buyers. Why wer
not Bryson and Morris arrested? Wer
they taken before the parties who soil
the dynamite and rented the launcl
Pastime for Identification Were the,
the men who bought the dynamite t.
use in blowing up stumps? What stor.
have they to tell? If the dynamit
chase is not fake, if it is being car
ried on in good faith, why is there al
evident attempt to hide these men an
suppress their story?
The description of the man Bryso
is so distinctive that anyone could picI
him out in a crowd of thousands.
the police are really looking for Bry
son, is it not little strange that the,
have not found him? And the "rea
Bryson,' according to The Times, is a
actual double" of the fake Bryson
And yet the "real Bryson" has no
come into the limelight. He is known
but his story is suppressed!
Note how many Legitimate cause
for suspicion crop out as one goe
along!
That organized labor was his cnem
Is the only ground which Otis can Sc
forth for his awful charge.
II this were sufficient ground fo
accusation, which it is not, even wer
the dynamite theory sound. how abou
''lS other enemies? They are legior
AS OTIS has villified and misrepresent
ed countless individuals. To Otis az
cry reformer is in the same class wit
the unlonist and he is illuminated a
such. Hiram johnson. Francis Hene,
Fihchot, John d. Works Father PETE
= Norke, Mayor Alexander are but
lew OF the most prominent American
upon which Otis has poured his walls q
Vituperation within the past fe,
months.
And there are thousands of l.sse
individuals who have grieyanc
against The Times for unjust attack
made upon them at one time or opotba
II 1t were left to a question of motiv,
All OF these persons would stand in tn
same class with members Of labc
unions In fact, if any such wishe
TO blow up The Times he would kno,