The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-05
GOMPERS WON'TgUlT JUST NOW
HiS JIST BEEN REELECTED
I.iBOR HEiD. P''EnNBER
And That's Ills Answer. Made with Emo
tion. to Talk Of Ills Hcsignlng He
says Burns spoke Falsely In tharEinE
Him with Know Ing Mc>amaraS' Guilt

IIimMith Know Wing McNamaraS' Guilt
In Wow o' tho guilt of the McNamaras
and the charge, OF Detective william }.
Burns that goa know Of their gHl' weeks
before they pleaded guilty IN court do
you intend tu remain president ot the
imcriCan Federation of Labor was
asked of Samuel Gompcrs last evening.
MIR Gompers. VINO stood in the cor
ridNr of the Victoria Hotel while labor
! leaders from all over the country waited
I to speak to him. seemed 10 he under great
stress
u don't feel called upon 10 answer
| that" hc said. raising his voice and ON
| phasiling each word But I "ill say
| this II was only recently that | was
unanimously reelected president Of the
| american Federation of Labor. Those
are my credentials and that j. my answer.
| Mr. GomperS who had spent busy
! day comforting with his lawyers over
the contempt proceedings growing ont
Of the Bucks Stove and Range case. de-
| no'nred DeteCtlve Burns
/ There is no truth IN what he says
declared Gompers Il understand that
he SAYS that LAWYER clarence barrow
/
at indianapolis in June that the McNa-
m1rds were guilty That ls not 80.
Everything that Burns has said about
me - false. II barrow vas n !nd!anar-
oils at that time didn't know IL Their"
were about forty labor men there and
they didn't know it
That's 80. chorusci a group of labor
leaders standing by.
How about tho telegram that narrow
sent 10 YOU at the convention al Atlanta
more than two weeks before the Me
Namaras announced their guilt N COURT
Il 60, that telegram" SAID Gompers.
"Darrow asked that one Of certain men
whom he named hc sent 10 Los Angeles
to confer with him. Their" was nothing
in tho telegram To show what barrow
wanted to confer about. ! cant recall
'hc names Of the men mentioned IN the
telegram now. Yc-" ,this IN reply to a
-uggestionl. Edward NoCkel@, secretary
= of the Chicago Federation Of Labor.
was one Of the men named m IN" tel"-
gram turned 10 one OF two Of the men
, named and asked them If they could 20.
I That : all | knew about n. ! didu' know
l until two davs later that NoCkel- had gone
tn Ios Angeles didn't hear from him
then and haven't heard from him since
Standing in N" corridor waiting To talN
, To- Nr. Gcmp-r- vas \ C. Iveitinoe
secretary of the stat" Binding Trado-
Council Of California. who l. one Of Cali.
roruias leaders Of o~gani1ed labor. He
had cNnlained earlier that Mr. Gomp"rS
b had handed tho Darrow telegram Ito hin
at Atlanta and he had had tho Telegram
p y ,,sl,.. Z -
Chicago.
1 What did Won suppose tn" telegram
from Darrow was about Mr.. Gompors
Wa asked
i don't know L,!ow that thought any
4 thing about it ha raph"d Only f""
" DAYS before We had received joint tele
8 gram from the McNamara- asserting thoJ
lnupcenoo and telling us how they ap'
rroClated what was lcinG done for them
4 NV thoughts then We're all along that line
=. How do you feel about tho Mcnamara
now"
~ They ara confessed criminals >al'
4 Mr. G"mp"r- after pau-e They ar
# before tho court now am wiling t. le
the court deaf with them"
= IN the last i've years had you any IN
u ti;!'a'lru Of lawl"sSucSS on the part %
, organized lHhur''
, NO lu,natinn or n and no information
Il ON the subject sand Mr. GumperS pos
y itively
How about the statement that j J
n Mcnamara got monthly fund Of si.nE
= from the irnnworker~' union for which h
: did not have to make an auoouu,ing:-
N- Gompcrs would not make a de'nit
-, answer to this spcr."" question.
:, IF yuu specify You limit the grouu
,r covered" he insisted Il will say this
The hooks of the American Federation G
!" Labor are open TO the Federal Govern
" rnout. ru any Grand Jury. to any 70
:. -p,usIhln person. We hiv" nothing {
d, conceal nat covers everything. Gp"sn
= it,"
b" Mr.. Gomper~ va. informed that two d'
q tectives, presumably Barns m"n. ha
shown u keen interest n wha, he had lee
o doing the last couple of d1v~
r. i know they hay" been watching me
V he said Il saw them when got of IN
al train after coming from Tr,, on Saturda
night. ! came right to his hotel in
~ taxicab and registered | had nothing I
~ conceal have nothing 20 conceal nov
r; l am going 10 Washington to-morro
80 afternoon or evening and will be at m
headquarters there and Mr., Burns {
ID anybody else can see ne"
-a What is the attitude Of tho America
up Federation Of Labor on the propose
is general Federal inquiry Mr. Gompcr
d. was asked
=" As have edld before the books Of til
ne American Federation Of Labor are ope
~ to any responsible person, If they thin
r. can give them any information a
la ready to give II
waiter Drew of the National ErcctoI
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