The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-03
1T TOOK MUCH PRESSURE

Nbodh ohd Ootiy FdTSS III
Court Was Fin
United Press Leased Wire Service
LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. "a
newer and brighter day is dawning
for both labor and capital on the Pa
cific coast From the ruins of the
blasted hopes of unionists who have
steadfastly supported the Mcnamara
brothers in the belief that they were
being prosecuted because capital in
the past has prosecuted innocent men
who opposed it, will come great good.
The reign of terror that has existed in
labor circles in Los Angeles for years,
will cease. Capital and labor both
see their mistakes. They intend to
profit by them
In this statement Lecompte Davis,
one Of the chief lawyers for the de.
fense of the Mcnamara brothers
sums up the opinion of thousands OF
employees and employers here.
! The application of the Golden Rule
policy in an effort to stop further
/ strife. is being heralded with glad
/ acclaim all over the city. Business
men and workers alike agree that
steps must be taken at once to bring
about more harmonious relations be-
tween employers and employees. In
dustrial struggles must be shorn OF
1 their bitterness Both sides must De
manifestly fair in their dealings with
4 one another. Arbitration must re.
I, T7.sae- the old methods Of settling dis
I putes by the right Of might and the
lclasses must realize that each depends
1 to no small extent upon the other for
success.
4 Union sympathizers who were the
4 most radical in their special support
of the McNamaras are now clamorine
for the law to mete out its stern pen
atty to the accused men. They are q
= unit in agreeing that labor has beer
betrayed Hereafter there must be
no suspicion attached to the move
msnts of organized workers, Capital
, lists too have seen the light and are
admitting that the methods the,
adopted in dealing with their EN-
], ployes were in no small measure re
sponsible for the character Of the
, tactics used in retaliation If the
promised calm in the industrial storm
r becomes permanent, model for thu
| guidance of the entire world will b,
/. furnished here.
Il The developments in the McNamar;
trial came so unexpected that the en-
Il tire city was amazed A state o
semi-anarchy existed. On one sid
3 was the forces of labor firm in the De
J lief that the McNamaras We're to b
/ to strike a death blow at union labor
f On the other hand was capital wildl
0 Iclamoring for revenge and loudly pro
: claiming that all organized worker
wela anarchists ready to tear dow
s the institutions of the governmer
# and confiscate property because thei
s employers would not submit to abs
t lutte dictation from the employees.
l. A crisis was impending. Attorne
Darrow and his associates had fc
S more than week thought the pr
d ponderance of evidence furnished b
II the state would send both brothers
S the gallows. Workingmen and wome
1t the nation over had denied themselve
many of the smaller comforts Of Iii
If that they might give their mites to I'll
d fund necessary to retain counsel an
S detectives for the men whom they b
= lieved innocent
1t would be 2 terrible blow to thes
n loyal persons to inform them tn;
l. they had been betrayed: that IL
t, prisoners. from their cells in the IA
n Angeles jail had sent out pleas fl
,r help and assurances that they wel
a innocent. when their hands at th
d very moment were crimson with Il
ir blood of twenty-one victims of Il
" disastrous explosion.
" Millions were to be spent by ATTIC
'e neys for the defense AS Attorn'
-e Darrow walked back and forth in h
room at the hotel pondering over Il
m crisis, there flashed through his mil
a. the vision of hundreds Of won,
e workers toiling in the dingv factC
n. les of the great cities for small wage
e yet Loyalty giving a share of their p
:" tance each week for the cause tn
they believed just.
n Despite the positive assertion tod
c. by District Attorney Fredericks, tn;
r SO far as he was concerned, the Go
en- Rule had nothing to do with Il
III accepting of a plea of guilty in t
Mcnamara case, Lincoln Steffens. w
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