The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-12-07
IRON WORKERS PUT
DYNAMITE JOBS
SAYS BURNS
Paid Agents $1,000 a Month
Asked No Accounting.
GOMPERS MUST HAVE KNOWN
McNamaras and McManlaal Were the
Men Who Did Most Of the
Actual Work.

Philadelphia, Dec civilian j
Burns came to this city this morning
prepared to investigate the dynamit
ing cases here in the past few years
He met Rudolph Blankenburg, the
new mayor; had an hours interview
with Director of Public Safety Porter,
and luncheoned at the City Club with
the reform administration. He Will go
to New York tomorrow and return
here Friday morning. Asked what he
thought of Samuel Gompers, his an
swer came quickly and positively:
"What think of that man is unfit
to print. Why, boys, had that man
Gompers been honest he would have
demonstrated it by apologizlng, not to
me-but to organized labor and the
people generally for mis- abuse and Will
lication of me. Why, right in this city
after arousing $1,000 persons to q
frenzy and leading them In parade
through the streets, he declared in the
Labor Lyceum that ! framed up the
dynamiting cases; that ! held the
bombs. and that the McNamaras were
martyrs, victims, and that an organic
ed attack was being made against
organized labor.
"Your Sociallstic speakers quoted
him on the street corner. Your work
ing people gave up their good money
to save the McNamaras from this un.
Just persecution, and now he has not
one word OF excuse other than to say
that he was grossly deceived. How
about the poor people who gave uI
their money?
IF Gompers is arrested on this con
tempt charge now pending against
him in Washington. it will be TO the
interest of organized labor-decent
labor-to lock him up and throw away
the key. Gompers cried that this kid
mapping OF labor leaders by Burns
would have to stop. Did he ever say
anything about stopping numbering
men like rats In trap? Gompers
said that the McNamaras deceived
him. The truth is that Gompers did
the deceiying. He says that the Nc
Namaras mlsrepresented organized la
Dor. Nobody ever misrepresented or
ganized labor more than Gompers
does. The rank and file Of organized
laborers are opposed to violence"
do you think that Gompers knew
about the plans of the McNamaras be
fore the dynamiting OF The Times
Building?" he was asked.
Il cannot answer that" he replied
You have declared that these cases
have been running on for several
years before the destruction of The
Times plant; do you think II possible
that all this was being done by biz
labor leaders unknown to Gompers?'
Il will not answer that either" hC
said, but am giving facts that may
make certain things obvious"
He referred again TO the $1,000 9
month voted TO the McNamaras by the
National Association OF ridge ant
National Association OF bridge ant
Frank Ryan is the head, and reiterat
that Gompers certainly knew that tn,
McNamaras were guilty.
Just after the arrest of the Nc
Namaras.' said Burns. "Gomper.
made an attack on me, calling thC
whole thing a put up job Ther
Gompers came to Indianapolis anC
consulted with the executive board o
the International Association o
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
which there Is evidence to show haC
voted to pay John j. Mcnamara 81 ,00l
per month for which he should rende'
no accounting, and which there is evl
dence to show was used in the dyna
hitting operations of the Mcnamara
and Ortie Mechanical"