The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-12
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G0NPERS : :
DISPUTE
Labor Leader Applies The Short
and Ugly Word to Dyna-
mite SIeuth
Arm L.eaeed 49,

mn INA ~ May A@s BttNNAtRN
William J Burns, who caused the
arrest Of John ]. McNamsea, secre-
tary-treasurer OF the International
Structural Iron Workers union; his
brother, James B. Mcnamara, and
0rie McManigal for alleged COM
nliey tn the plot to blow up the Los
Angeles Times, has left for Los An,
geles.
In four months Burns has lost 25
pounds He is no longer stout, but
he looks In the pink of condition
and says he feels as fit as a trained
athlete.
There won't be any further talk
OF a frame-up when we set these
three men on trial. said Burns,
Samuel Gompers president Of the
American Federation ot Labor, knows
by this time that there was no
frame-up and that the arr its OF
the McNamaras and McManigal We're
not tue result OF plant Why
because Gompers has been conduct
ing an investigation of his own at
indianapolis that has convinced him
there was no frame-up and no
plant
And There You Are,
Mr. Gompers says
III William ]. Burns has said that
am satisfied that the men indicted
are guilty, as charged, OF that theirs
was not a frame.up or plot respon-
sible for their arrests, he lies and
he has lied in everything else connect
ga n'th this case
* have investigated the entire
case. and / more convinced than ever
that there is franle-up and a plor
behind their arrests, Burns has lied
through the entire case"
Mr Gompers refused to go into de.
tails concerning his investigation or
TO make any further statement bear
Ing on the situation
Had to Spend His Own Money.
The books OF the International
Structural Iron W0rwers unions
Burns declared doubtless will reveal
vast expenditures which further eyi.
dence will show were 70 defray the
cost Of the dynamite outrages
though the members Of the union
were unaware OF the fact
Burns stated that he paid out Sl4..
0gp ol bis own money to complete
his work after the city Of Los Am
geles had called a halt on expense
money for him This was after the
mayor had put through bills, aggre.
eating $4,000 for the Burns agency
The attendant OF parceleheckine
room at Toledo. according to Burns
will positively identify i. Il. McNa.
mara and MeManigal as the two men
who left there 4 dress suit case In
which nitroglycerine had been car
ried.
Ais Own Work.
The statement that the National
directors association furnished me
with the information that led TO the
arrests declared Burns. is abso
lutely untrue. worked up the EN-
tire case myself | went before The
associations committee and laid be
fore them MY entire scheme
They were too stingy or afraid tc
give any assistance to the Los Angel
es Times Walter Drew, The associ
atoms commissioner didn't get te
Chicago until after the arrests had
been made That was after be had
laaentel in New York that his trip
70 Chicago would be another wild
goose chase
For the first time Burns gave his
reason for the haste with which the
three prisoners were taken from In
diana saying that every legal require
ment had been met and that the pris
oners hal ample time in which to
gei counsel, had they desired He
added. We wanted To remove the
possibility Of delay by technically
and political Influence, 50 We had
everything arranged 10 get the men
away directly after they were ar.
rested. Ii we hadn't adopted that
course | am convinced ne never
would have been able To gej them out
Of Indiana"
MeManigaI Confessed Voluntarily.
Reiuting the charge that he had
praeiised the third degree" Burns
said
n never resorted 70 that In my life
Amy information ! got from McMal.
igal was through convincing him It
was TO his interests to talk. believe
man who furnishes information I'M.
der those circumstances should be re
warded 70 somc extent ! think Nc.
Manigal will he
II detailed to MeManigal the cpl.
sodes leading up 10 the dynamitlng
he had been doing | convinced hjm
IN ten minutes and went away Eight
hours afterward AleManigal sent for
me and made his confession.
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