The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-11
THE CONFESSION MEANS INDUS
TRIAL PEACE FOR PA
clFlC COAST.
CAPITAL And LABOR GUILTY
They viii Meet In Contrite Spirit,
Confess Their Faults And Hereafter
Deal On a Broader And More Hu-
manitaran Basis.
Special to The NeUS.
manitarian Basis.

Special to The NeUs.
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. IL
Guilty as charged so said ]. j.
and J. B. Mcnamara, in open court on
Dec. 1st, 1911, which date and its de-
velopments will long linger in the
memory of citizens not only of Los
Angeles, but of the entire state, Uni
ted States and every section of the
civilized world.
Arrayed for and against these self
confessed criminals whose names
have become familiar to the reading
world and whose deeds of violence
have shaken a continent, was syndi-
Gated labor on one side and collective
capital on the other. The former with
clarion notes reverberating from the
tempest swept shores of the wild At
lantic to the surf bathed beaches Of
the placid Pacific vehemently and per-
sstently proclaimed their innocence,
while the latter with unabated vigor
and unrelenting persistence pro-
claimed their perfidy.
While the battling elemtnts of or
ganized capital and labor were being
lashed into fury by frenzied endeav-
ors Of the former to secure conviction.
and, the latter not only acquittal but
. .,oneration, with a suddenness as
startling as an unexpected explosion,
q helt in the march of developments
is lurriodly called and the central
figures in one of the most CHASTITY
tra2edics ever enacted by civilian or
savage, startle eXpectant continents
with q calm confession of their guilt.
The revulsion of sentiment occa-
stoned by the almost dumb-founding
confession of these now admitted in
stigators and perpetrators of deeds of
destruction, disabling and death. is
perhaps without parallel in the an
mails of history of human emotions
Until the sensational words of con-
fession fell from their calloused lips,
thousands of their deluded fellow citi-
2ens, of whom the writer was one,
implicitly believed they We're victims
of a revolving conspiracy and as in
nocent Of the crimes with which they
were charged as were the hapless vic
Tins whose lives were sacrificed upon
/, the altar of their Nemesis.
Dark and damning as are the con-
fessions, daring, desperate and dia-
- bolical as are other deeds they con-
iess TO committing, away back and
] beyond the zone of their fiendish ac-
tivities, looms upon the horizon the
, probable disclosure of plots and per-
T fected schemes for the execution Of
plans and purposes. even more appall-
{ ing and so widely extended. that be-
side them, the crimes to which the
p McNamaras have confessed are as
r only a prelude.
e When the awful truth which their
q confessions disclosed, dawned upon
d the doubling minds of those who had
q. stranuously refused to believe them
% capable or i'm any measure inclined to
commit such an atrocious crime. a
E. simultaneous cry went up from all
their former friends whose confidence
had been so cruelty betrayed, that the
extreme penalty for their hideous
crime be promptly imposed and the
= court infeXibly refuse to consider any
recommendations for leniency by
either or both District Attorney Fred
sericks or Detective Burns, which ru
:. mors said one or both might make as
e result of pleas of guilty. Labor
W unions were as vehement in their pro
,e tests against executive clemency IN
.e any degree as were non-union sympa
thizers with the survivors of the vic
lie tins whose sole offense against socie
n ty had been the peaceable. harmless,
IS pursuit of working for an honest liv
III ing in what is known as an "opei
le shop" which is specifically defined a
r. a place where non-union workers ma,
ge work asresdpg as they give Sad rece
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