Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-12-14
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lvanced by murderOus acts. Union
labor officials, and many others, were
quoted to similar effect. The presi-
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, the day after the disaster oc-
CURED, as published by the st. Louis
Star. said:
Labor does not stand for such out.
RACES, nor contemplate such crime. /
cannot believe that a union man has.
done it, and / deeply hope no one.
who was connected with the labor.
movement will be found to have done
it. It is incOnceiYable that g union.
man should have done this thing. And
VET. xif il is found that q union man
has done it, unioniem cannot be blaG1s
ed by fair-minded men for the deed
|of q man devoid Of any human feeling.
as the DerDetratOr of this horrible
catastrophe must have been. It was
the act Of a mailman. No one with an.
ounce Of sympathy III his make up
could do aught but contemplate such
s crime with the deepest abhorrence.
These facts were further fully pre-
scented In the June, 1911, issue of the
American Federationist; in seven
|teen-Dage article entitled the NC
Namara Case, in which the leaolns
facts up to that time were reviewed.
Speaking before the 81. Louis Cen
trail Labor Union on Sundays Octoner
Ii, 1910, the day after the disaster,
President Gompers asserted ne Wouio
Immediately turn the dynamlters
lover to the proper authorities q ne
could lay hands on them. The Globe
Democrat also quoted him as SAYING &;
I.sI only wish knew the actual perpe
TRAITORS and if did. take my word LOT
lit. / would turn them over 70 Just1ces
IThe universal condemnation Of muir
lderous deed in labor circles, ought 70
lbe d fact so far beyond question, 90
Ieasily ascertainable from accesslDle
records, that no man with any regard
flor his reputation for yeracity couia
Ideny its Yet, the New York Times
lin an editorial Saturday Dec. z, print
"a this sentence: From the day Wnen
James b. McNamara's bomb blew MS
ltWenty-one victims into eternity, down
| to the present time, no authoritative
voice IN the ranks Of labor has been
raised TO express the hope that the
murde rers would be brought to Justice,
even should they prove to pc union
men,. s, ~
Relative TO other phases 81 LIE NV
INamara case the article IN the June
American Federationist contains these
TINA sTt NAV Be said that from that time
1.-The kidnapping) to the present. De
Ifectiye Burns, Attorney Drew, EdltQr
l0fis ri w. Post, and the active agents
| r. the extremists in the ManufacfuTs
erss Association in general have an
lnlavefi Is perfection the hysterlcal
lcharacters to which we are accustom1
"a in lie pages Of cheap fiction and
"a the boards of the BoWery class OF
theatres. :
he in the series of aHdacious acts COM
United by Detective Burns than ms
1savings to reporter Of the World,
May 1911: &,
samuel GOmpers. president q
Hkba American Federation OF Labor,
I s.rs bv this time that there was no
lfrane-,ip and that the arrests OF the
m Namaras and McManigal were not
The result Of plant Why Because
Gem Tsrs has been conducting an IN.
lveefipation of his own at Indianapolis
ItfSf bas convinced him that there was
n frame.up and no plants.
s., ss1sbese assertions of Burns were en-
It;-e1v without foundation. Nothing
IS ~ thought to our knowledge ID
If,;5is7,anoiis or elsewhere that could
he ,,sed as evidence against the pris
IS5,oEs or to show that the Structural
Iron workers Union has been con
Il 5nTfinc 4 dynamite campaign against
eS,e E1ectors Association.
since the MclamaTas' confession