The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-12-16
URGE ]. ]. 'NAMARA
TO Tell EVERY THING
Executive Council Of State Fed
GRAFTON of Labor Takes
Decisive Action.
Assert Attacks of Burns Are
Meant for Labor Movement.
Crimes Are Condemned.

the Minnesota State Federation of
Labor at its regular. meeting held in
St. Paul last Sunday, came out en-
phatically with a statement declaring
against the crimes committed by the
! Mcnamara brothers; championing law
! and order, and declaring confidence
in the leadership of Samuel Gompers.
! The statement unequivocally con-
dennis violation of law in any form
by any person or institution. 1t does
not recite the injuries inflicted on
the working classes by capitalism. It
leaves that to another time when the
occasion may demand it.
Organized labor Of Minnesota
wants to know the truth. 1t wants
the ends of justice served. 1t wants
to have its ranks purged of its enc
mics from within. It is anxious to
| see the suspicion now lowering over
the heads of it's tried and true lead
ers by the unwarranted attacks OF
| labor's enemies, quickly removed. The
statement is as follows:
Speaks for Labor.
| In so far as we are able to speak
for the workingmen of Minnesota the
| members of the executive council Of
| the Minnesota State Federation Of
Labor make the following statement:
| members of organized labor of
this state at the confession of the re-
voting crimes committed by the Nc
! Namara brothers.
The manner of the arrest of John
! J. Mcnamara; the hurried and forced
departure from Indiana to California
without due process of law; the pres
ence and activity during these pro-
ceedings of Walter Drew, representa-
tive of an avowed anti-unfon organ
| 1zation of employers; the long and
bitterly waged industrial war con-
Quoted in southern California; the ar
rogant position of Harrison Gray
Otis, owner of the Los Angles Times,
| and the fact that experts on explosives
| of known ability and integrity de-
clared that the Times building had
been destroyed by gas led us to be-
lieve, with thousands of others In and
out Of the labor movement, that the
Mcnamara brothers were the victims
of a we'll planned conspiracy to dis
credit and crush the American labor
movement. -
To Withhold Judgment.
OA fAP1A1 SV, 1S14, lHe Officers o.
this federation, after q : review of
events leading up to the KIDNAPPING
Of John J. Mcnamara, adopted the
following resolution: s#t
Resolved, that the executive
| council of the Minnesota State Feder-
alton of Labor in behalf aof the labor
movement of this state, .calls upon
every citizen of this commonwealth
| to withhold judgment as, to the guilt
of John ]. Mcnamara until he has
been given a fair trial as guaranteed
by the constitution of the United
| States
I'VE then called upon the work.
| 1ngmen of this state to render f1nan-
c1al assistance to the Mcnamara
brothers in order that sufficient
money might be obtained to employ
able counsel and secure a fair and
impartial trial.
I'VE do not regret our course in
this matter, and In this respect. and
| we would probably do the same
again under like circumstances
Nov that the Mcnamara brothers
have confessed their guilt we are
ceived.
Opposed Violence.
1--WE demand and hereby call on
John J. Mcnamara to make some
reparatiOn to the cause he has
| shamefully injured by stating wheth-
er or not there were others impli-
Gated with him In his crimes, and
| If there are any, either higher up
or lower down. that he let the
| whole truth be known that the ends
! OF Justice may be served, that the
labor movement may be purged of
its enemies from within, and that
suspicion cast upon our tried and
| true officials by the indirect attacks
of Detective Burns, may be re-
| moved.
I'VE declare that the members of
! a labor organization who champion
| or countenance violation of law for
| the purpose of securing redress or
| their grievances, or for any purpose,
are more to be feared than our enc
| mics from without -
Too Sacred for Anarchy.
1.-The aims and purpose of the la
Dor movement are too sacred to be
prostituted in the mire Of anarchy.
1--WE call upon the good people of
Minnesota to judge by our long list
OF achievements as to whether or
not the men of labor countenance
or resort to violation of law.
1--WE have through j the orderly
evolutionary process, secured shorter
hours Of labor for. thousands Of
workingmen, women and children.
I'VE have obtained higher wages
and better working conditions for
numberless thousands in and out Of
the labor movement. s..
I'VE have, taken the child out Of
the work shop and the factory and
placed it in the school and on the
playground where it properly be-
longs.
1--WE have secured legislation pro-
tecttng the health and lives Of all
working people.
I'm all the trade union movement
has obtained greater measure Of
Industrial freedom and domestic hap
pinesss for all laborers, than has been
secured by any institution at any
time In the industrial history Of tho
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These have been secured In
perfectly lawful manner. Had other
means been employed the movement
would have failed long ago.
I'VE declare our faith in Samuel
Gompers president Of the American
Federation Of Labor. We assert
that the attacks now made upon