The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-09-30
'GOMPERS. GIVEN AN
OVATION ON COAST
An Audience of Five Thousand
People Greeted Him at Los
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Angeles, Cal.
Compliments Governor Johnson,
Of California for His Fairness
in Extradition Cases.

Washington, Sept. 28.-Five thou
| sond people listened to and cheered
the utterances of President Gompers
In the Shrine Temple, Los Angeles.
An excerpt from the address follows:
"An Interpretation is now placed
on the Sherman antitrust law that
places unions in the position OF
! trusts. This law was enacted to pro-
tect the people from the trusts and
corporations, and they now propose
to use it to control our minds, bodies
and existence. On the morning after
| the decision was rendered by the SUI
preme court dissolving some Of the
trusts for. the violation of this law
their stocks raised in the market"
The Mcnamara Case.
Closing his address he made ref
erence to the Mcnamara case, now
pending in the courts, in which he
said: "Some months ago there occur
red in this city the destruction of a
great building and the loss of many
human lives. doubt if there were
many men on this continent not
shocked to tears. It was an awful
happening. But before the news of
that catastrophe was flashed to the
world half an hour there formed a.
chorus that pointed to union labor
and charged it with the crime.
my friends, when we heard this
We knew the source Of the accusa-
ton. We know men of labor, and we
know crime is repugnant to men of
Tabor. We know men of labor cannot
be guilty of such a great crime. Our
movement does not depend on crime
and brutality and cannot succeed
with crime and brutality.
Cause Of Explosion Unknown.
AT the time of the accusation it
was not known what caused the ex-
plosion, and 1t is not known now. We
We're shocked and our sympathies
touched to the deepest. Again we
were shocked when, months later. a,
detective and his man, Friday
Burns and Hosick-went to Indiana
polls to the offices of the Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, when J. J.
Mcnamara was lured away without
warning, taken to a justice of the
peace. asked if his name was Nc
Namara. and when he answered af-
TENTATIVELY was ironed and taken 5000
miles away with no opportunity for
good bye, no opportunity to secure a
lawyer or defend his rights.
Man Stealing Detectives.
mo one can minimize a crime in
volving death and the destruction of
property. It is our hope that such
cases may be eliminated, but, when
| the detectives go man-stealing the
| public is endangered. Detective Burns
has declared several times that the
general run Of detectives are the worst
and most interruptions scoundrels un-
whipped, and all he has accused turn
| around and say he is another.
Upon you and me devolves the
duty of standing by men we know
and having faith in their innocence,
We shall stand by them at least un-
| til they have been declared guilty by
| a. jury of their peers. At the same
| time we will prosecute to the full ex-
tent this man Burns. They wouldn't
| dare to kidnap Rockefeller, or Aston.
| or Vanderbilt. They wouldn't kidnau
| any OF these trust magnates who sell
their daughters to some worn on,
| count.
Compliments Governor.
I'VE are after these man stealers
and let me say this in connection.
congratulations and hats off to Gov.
! ernor johnson, of California. for his
| actions and fairness in connection
with the extradition Of Hosick. Wher
an attorney came from Indiana with
the papers for him the governor gave
him an opportunity to gain legal
counsel and defend himself in the
highest courts of the state, and when
he saw that everything was regular
he signed the papers and sent him to
indianapolis to stand trial."