The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-12-20
THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGES
CONFESSION OF MNANfARAs NOT
TO STOP INVESTIGATIONS.
Whole shocking Conspiracy, Which
1t Is Charged Caused 113 Deaths,
Reinn Prnhed to bottom.

1t Is Charged Caused 113 DeaLns,
Being Probed to Bottom.
it is absolutely imperative for the
good name of organized labor that a
full and exhaustive inquiry should
follow the confessions Of guilt made
by the Mcnamara brothers in Los
Angeles. The acknowledgment by
James B. Mcnamara that he set the
bomb which destroyed the Los An
geIes Times plant, with 81 lives, and
the pleading guilty of John j. Mona
mara to his completely in wrecking
the Llewellyn Iron Works while both
a shock and a relief to the country
still leave uncleared the criminal
conspiracy, which during a period Of
three years is said to have destroyed
S3,5OO,OO0 worth of property and to
have caused the deaths of liz per-
sons.
Manifestly there were others be-
side the Mcnamara brothers and the
seIf-confessed dynamiter and inform
er. Ortie r. Mechanical, involved in
this shocking, indefensible and cold
blOoded campaign of destruction
and assassination and until they are
exposed and punished, be their con-
ditiOn in life high or low, this great
crime upon the industrial life of the
nation and against the true interests
of organized labor itself can never
be atOned for.
Ferret Out All the Guilty.
1t required in the aggregate vast
sums of money to carry out the hell
ish campaign in which the McNama-
ras We're involved and which strew-
ed the face of the country almost
from ocean to ocean with the wreck
age of bridges and buildings and the
bodies of scores of industrial vic
tins. Somebody furnished that mon
ey. Somebody beside the misguid-
ed fanatics now in the tolls was
cognizant of the crimes being COM
mitted; and deeper must be the probe
and wider the inquiry until every
participant in the infamous conspir-
acy shall stand exposed and pun
ished.
No one, not even it's greatest enc
my, believes that organized labor,
as such, had any part or parcel in
is the duty of labor unionism to de-
mand, and to aid in, the fullest in
quiry so that those who have betray-
ed its cause and trailed its princi-
pies in the mire may be ferreted out
and whipped with the rod of JUS
tice.
Where Labor BIundered.
In its financial backing of the case
of the McNamaras, believing them
to be innocent, organized labor was
not to blame. In it's assumption that
they were innocent and that the
charges against them were a frame
up" it took a false, a stupid and
an indefensible position 1t had no
inside information, other than the
assurance of the prisoners them |
selves, on the subject, and yet it's
leaders foOlishly committed it to the |
position of making martyrs of the |
men and Identifying itself, practi- |
cally, with their cases. 1t burned |
the bridges behind it, and now that
the men are guilty, upon their own
admission, it finds itself lying under |
load both of injury and suspicion. |
Labor unionism, upon the common |
law principle of presuming limo |
cence until guilt is established, could |
have contributed funds for a fair
trial without jumping at conclu-
sions; that it did not do so places it
in an unenviable light. For this rea-
son the more incumbent is it upon
1t to have the whole series of dyna-
mite Outrages sifted to the bottom
that justice may be done to all
the guilty and the innocent, the false
leaders who have betrayed it and the
innocent rank and file who believe in
law, in justice and in humanity.
Labor Condemns Crimes.
The indignation voiced by organ
ICED labor consequent upon the ac-
acknowledgement of guilt by the Nc
Namaras is indicative of the atti-