The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-21
GOMpERS SAYS HE
 FEARS NOTHING
Let Them Investigate"
 Nothing to Hide
BUT CLANCEY QUAILS
After Conference Between Artie McManigal and Prosecutors Clancey's Nerve Appears
 Shaken

Washington, December 20.-"We have nothing to hide. We are ready at any time for the agents of the law tosbe- gin Investigating" declared President GomNrs of the American Federation of Labor, in an editorial on Labor S Position Lawful and Progressive, D which will appear in the January issue of the American Federationist MT. Gompers pledges his full cooperation in any investigation which may be made.
 The forthcoming number of the off cial organ of the federation will be the first to appear since organized la Dor. defense of the McNamara broth CTS collapsed in their confession, In his editorial MT. Gompers confines him. self to a discussion of the issues raised by the McNamara case, saying of the case itself that he and his colleagues will stand by the statement which they authorized soon after the confession of the brothers.
 Continuing his declaration that or ganized labor is ready for the agents of the law to begin the investigation MT. Gompers says:
 Files, records of all kinds, account books-everything in documentary shape is open to them. Anything that has been printed or spoken or writ ten to our correspondents is subject to their inquiries. Every act of every official may be freely looked into. Nc one is going to dodge or run away Whatever can be done to aid the law will be done at these offices.
 ''This is our reply at headquarters of the American Federation of Labor to the clamor to get at the men higher up,' to the repeated announcements in the press of a nation wide investiga- tion,' to the assertions that behind the McNamaras were men standing high in the councils of labor"
 MT. Gompers then propounds the question, How is trade unionism tc be affected?' and in answering that his search for light brought nothing new goes on to discuss the labor prob lem.
 What has happened" he says, ehas been a deplorable incident, misfor- tune, an exceptional course of action; but which does not touch the essentials of trade unionism."
 He finds that amidst the clamor raised by financial interests, by par tisans, by sensation mongers, and base trucking to the noisemak CTS, the coun. try is being compelled to hear "the voice of sanity and moral force" H, says the demands of part of the dail, press for immediate change of officer. is worth mo attention"
 Asserting that the American Fedora. tion of Labor is administered through the fairest procedures of a perfectly dem. tory is the story of the will and wist of its majorities, and queries How car it be other than what it is?''
 He repeats that the methods of the federation stop short of violent attacks on persons and property, while they un- fail1ngly uphold every right of labor and of the wage workers fin their move ments, on the highways, in their pur- chases, in their choice of work fellows and in their organizations
 In conclusion MT. Gompers speaks of the concentration effort and bitter ani- mostly enemies of organized labor to crush out the spirit of the toilers, and leaves as a parting admonition to his constituents: Grit your teeth and or ganze.'
 Los Angeles. December 2o.-With Ortie E. McManigal. confessed dynamiter. To- cated where he could see every witness called, the federal grand jury this after noon resumed it's investigation of the al- legged nation wide dynamite conspiracy.
 The session followed unexpected de- velopments of the morning when Mo Maniga1 was brought face to face with D. A. Clancy, a San Francisco labor leader. in the private offices of gov ernment officials. What connection inc morning meeting had with the mention in McManigaPs confession that he had been told by J. J. McNamara to meet a man named Clancey in San Francisco when he came west upon a dynamiting expedition, could only be conjectured Clancy left the office pale and weak.
 McManigal was the first person other than officers to enter the grand jury chamber this afternoon. It was said he appeared briefly as witness and then was posted in an ante room through which all other witnesses had to pass.
 It was reported that the grand jury probably would return from four to six indictments before the end of this week. It was pointed out that the most prom inent witnesses summoned had not been called to testify.
 Albuquerque, N. M., December 20.-John R. Harrington, the Chicago attorney, who was employed as one of the investiga- tors for the defense in the McNamara case, and who is wanted as a vifneee before the federal grand jury, now prob- ing the alleged dynamite conspiracy at Los Angeles, was served with a sub poena here tonight.
 Harrington and his wife were passen- gers on the Chicago limited of the Sante Fe. The subpoena was telegraphed here yesterday.
 ANOTHER MEMORIAL,
 TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN