The evening world., 1911-12-05
Local Agent of Erectors' Asso-
citation Believes Prison Sen
fences Are Sufficient.
WILL STOP
Confession of McNamaras a
Deterrent to Use of Explo-
Sives in Labor Disputes.

AFTER Drew. counsel Tor the Ma
tional Erectors' Association. which en-.
ployed William j. Burns to run down
the men who had been dynamitiny
steel work on open shop jobs. ex-
pressed qualification when told this
afternoon that the extreme limit OF
the law had not been visited on James
u. Mcnamara.
He reiterated the belief he expressed
In n telegram he sent yesterday to
District Attorney Fredericks at Los
Angeles that neither Jim ror John
Mcnamara contemplated murder when
they %conspired to blow up the Los An
geles Times.
Mr.. Drew regards the plea OF guilty
of the MoNamaras as a lesson that
will act a. a deterrent to men who
have been using dynamite in advancing
the union war on the open shop. The
terms OF imprisonment imposed by
Judge Bordwell Mr.. Drew regards as
SUFFICIENT under the circumstances.
After the structural ironworkers
opened the way" aid MIR. Drew. labor
organizations all over the country were
getting the dynamite habit. Employers
Aetcu a = ictt ttsiS WITH hittnih ss
Burns got on the tran OF the McNa-
mara's.
NO LOSS or LIFE EXCEPT N
TIMES EXPLOSION.
From the time the structural IRON
workers began to use dynamite in 1906
there have been l0i cases in which steel
work was dynamited. Contrary to gen.
eral belief. inspired. I believe, by mac
curate data. there was M loss of life
In any labor trouble dynamiting except
In the blowing up OF the Los Angeles
Times Building. The National Erectors'
Association has never claimed that the
dyna m!ters contemplated murder. En-
tremists in labor unions adopted and
used dynamite as q factor In fighting
the open shop.
ITO show that the practice was ac-
copied as part of the programme OF
battle against the open shop, ! call
your attent.-a to a communication in
the Bridgemen's Journal. the oficial
organ Of the Mcnamara organisation.
OF Issue Of January. 1910. from the cor
at Indianapolis.
I'VE were in two strikes last fall
the correspondent wrote. ordered by the
Building Trades Council against gen.
eral contractors. One OF the strikes
against Albert Won Streckelson was In
behalf of the carpenters.
This was hard because we " also
the Manufacturers Association against
us. The strike lasted over two months
and the work was In awful shape when
the Bedford stone Company. a fair
took 1t over
Here We are" continued Mr.. Drew.
"a strike in which the Bridgemens'
Union was not interested. save sympa-
theticatlly. IT was a carpenters strike,
by the Building Trades Coun-
ell. The phrase the work was in awful
Is explained by the records Of
the Erectors' Association. .
On Oct. %. 1909. two buildings Won
was erecting in Indianapolis
were dynamited. One was the public IL
brary. His planning mill was also dyna-
mited and his barn was blown up and
set afire and his horses we're DESTROYED.
The four explosions were almost stimuli
Our Information is that not
than a minute separated the first
the last.
Won Streckelson turned over his con-
tracts to the Bedford Stone Company.
E closed shop concern. The Bridge
mems Journal correspondent winds up
report:
This goes to show what you can do
when you have a good Building Trades
Council and all the crafts stick to-
gether.'
Here IL plain case. The carpenters
q grievance. The contractor against
whom their grievance was directed had
his Jobs and his plants blown up by