The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-15
AN EVIDENT DUTY.


ceived; about their horror of such deeds
the McNamaras confess to; and yet all
the time they have been baud III glove
with the self confessed murderers and
outlaws of the Mcnamara kind. They
have never taken their stand for law
and order: they have never frowDcd
upon lawlessness that posed as friendly
to labor; and they have never been
amenablc to the arguments for the up
holding of the law and the sustaining
of the courts, quite the contrary. They
have frequently arraj2ueJ courts as
the mere mouthpicces of capital, the op-
pressors of labor, aud no matter bow
clear the ruling Of the courts may have
been in exact conformity to law, if ut
any time those rulings were supposed
by these hvpocritical Leaders TO be
against their own personal Interests as
"champious of labor themselves not
being laborers or having anything to
do with labor except for what they
could get out of the wages of those
who. in fact did labor. have been volu-
BILE in denouncing both the rulings and
the courts.
As to these hypocritical leaders, The
suspicion is fairly justified that they
arc shocked, not TO 6ui that the Nc
| Namaras were. in fact. guilty of the
outraees and assassinatiops in Los An
geles, but that they confessed their
guilt. And large numbers OF these fake
1 L. ,lxhs
for fear that Burns may be able TO
trace to them direct completely in out
RACES of various kinds.
Those who affirmed so heatedly ana
so unreservedly their certainty Of the
innocence of the McNamaras, and their
firm judgment that the eases against
them were "plants' in the interest of
capital TO discredit laoor, arc now
among those who are DISCONTINUED be-
cause the McNamaras were not sem
tcnce to be banged, ami are denouuc-
ing the court for IFS lenity towards
those self confessed murderers. Here
again there is room TO suspect that
these blatant bumbugs arc in terror lest
the McNamaras may change their minds
and conclude to tell all they know. II
would suit these frau lulent professors
far better TO have the McNamaras
hanged than to have them live with
the possibility hanging over them OF
what the McNamaras might tell TO their
criminal discredit, 1t is high time
that the genuine, honest labor element
cut itself free altogether from those
loul.mouthed bumbugs: that it weeded
out from its ranks all of the blatant
shoutcrs, all Of those who simply use
the labor cause and the labor orgaulza"
tions for their own idle AMI evil pur-
| poses 1t is evident that the labor or
| carnations of the country must do this
| in order to regain in the esteem Of the
public the confidence in them which
has been shaken by their yielding to
the covernance and guidance Of such
sclf-scckinc scounlrels as have hereto
fore TOO often appeared as representa-.
| tives of labor that thew themselves,
vile windbags, would be the last TO
share III.
The Central Labor Union of MerI-
den, Connecticut. has taken step III
this direction which is worthy of rec
ocnition and commcudation. 1t has
sent letter to Gompers urging that the
| officers of the American Federation OF
Labor come forward with an offer to
render every possible aid TO the au-
thorities in bringing to Justice "the
iustigators and sbettors of tho dyna-
mite ouirages, whether members OF OF
| eanized labor or not That is an ap-
peal that really means something; but
we are afraid that it is made TO 4
source that will not respond. The ap.
peal goes to the heart of the whole
matter 1t is something practical: F.:
something necessary, something deslr~
able; always provided that the offer
be honest, and that the Federation do
in fact what it is asked 10 do, Utter.
ances. either by individuals or by or
CARNATIONS "repudating the McNa-
maras and their deeds, and expressing
loathing and horror of such crimes. are
all very we'll in their way; but, since
the decls of the McNamaras were done
iu the alleged interest of labor or
ganizstious. it is clearly the duty Of
those organizations 10 shake themselves
clear altogether from such criminal
faint
That is, beyond all question, the duty
of the time. so far as labor orgauiza-
tions arc concerned. Let them come Out