The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-07-06
Mrs Ortie Mechanical
Was Put Through the
Brutal Third Degree

| AASo ~ IheLu ABOUT the ages OF the
children.
Burns has filled Los Angeles with
low browed gun men and these
| creatures have been a source of
great annoyance to everybody con-
nected with the defense Of the Nc
Namara brothers.
A determined attempt was made
by six of them to force entrance in
to the home of Job Harrlman, coun-
sci. for the defense.
Telephone wires have been cut
and the building where the attor-
neys for the defense have their Of
flee has been infested with opera
tiVes who seek to start trouble at
| every opportunity. 1t is thought
these men aim to provoke some of
the striking metal workers who are
acting as watchmen at the Hartman
| home or elsewhere
District Attorney Fredericks is in
the east where he is virtually in
hiding to avoid attendance at dis
barment proceedings which are pend
ing against him in Los Angeles.
Fredericks is charged with hay-
ing extorted $4,000 from a party in
the famous King Will forgery case
The accusation states he used his Of
flee as prosecutor to force the pay
| ment of the amount in order that
prosecution might not ollow the
| forgery.
Assistant District Attorney Joseph
w. Ford. who signed the affidavit for
| reqnisition of j. J. Mcnamara, in
| which he is charged with having
committed forgery, IS defending his
chief with little success
Of the five lawyers sitting on the
board two are enxious for disbar-
ment.. two others. are favorable to
disbarment and: 5oneF1s OF the type
that will stick with the spokesman.
If Fredericks is disbarred it will
clear his office of the whole outfit Of
perjurers, kidnappers and grafters.
This would be greatly to the liking
of the public. 1t would give an op-
portunity to have fair man to con-
duct the prosecution in the coming
trial of J. J. Mcnamara.
No decision has been reached in
the Bender. Meple. Connors case and
the three striking iron workers are
still in jail awaiting the action OF
the court in the matter of setting
|
men.
Since the discovery that the last
bomb was found by County Detec-
tive Sam Browne contained nothing
more dangerous than ferti}izing sub
stance usually most plentiful in
horse cOrralS there has been a de-
cided lull in the bombfnding bust
ness.
THE only safe way now will be
for us to plant the dope ourselves" :"
said a detective Aalf in Jest, half in
earnest. "These labor guys are get
| ting too smart. That one they put
over on Sam Browne makes the
whole thing look ridiculous"
The city of Los Angeles is pay
| ing six hundred dollars month to
guard the empty home of Harrison
Grey Otis and a like amount to
guard the home and sacred person
| Of Zeehandlaar. secretary of the NJ
| & NJ. In the meantime Job Harri-
man hs been compelled to hire sew
eral watchmen to keep Burns thugs
out of his home and to protect the
safe where papers in the Mcnamara
| case.
| 1t is pointed out that there is n
slight difference in the way the pro-
|
Three men suspected of being in
| the pay of Otis or the NJ. & NJ. or
other labor-hating institutions have
| been stopped 'at labor temple and
their names read aloud in meetings
| of unions.
| disappearing as union men these
| StooipigConS have been trying to SOW
| dscord III the ranks of the Union
Labor Political Club and the Unions.
! The evident intent is to disrupt the
solidarity of the workers who under
the banner of the Socialist party are
| determined to elect Job Hartman
| Mayor of Los Angeles and give him
| a full council to support him in CIV
| ing the city the best administration
| of any American city and to make it
| an administration for all classes IN
! CLUDING FOR THE FIRST TIME
| THE WORKING CLASS.
| Great Alarm is manifested by the
good government administration
which has done SO much to persecute
| strikers during the past year. 1t Is
| this alarm that has impelled them to
bribe men in the ranks of the unions
| to try to start split in the ranks.
| This attempt will be futile but 1t
| serves an excellent purpose as a
warning to the workers of what may
be expected during this and follow
ing campaigns. -.A.>.x,A