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

! 4OOh MOC 1 hE0SO hE
How tho Confession Was Brought
About and Daily Farce In
Court Was Fin
ished.
I United Press Leased Wire Service. 4
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.
Tense 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
their bitterness Both sides must ne
manifestly fair in their dealings with
cue another. Arbitration must re-
lace the old methods Of settling dis
putes by the right Of might and the
CLASSES must realize that each depends
to no small extent upon the other for
success.
Union sympathizers who were the
most radical in their special support
of the McNamaras are now clamoring
for the law to mete out its stern pen
| atty to the accused men. They are a
unit in agreeing that labor has been
betrayed. Hereafter there must be
msnts of organized workers, Capital
| lists too have seen the light and are
admitting that the methods they
/ adopted in dealing with their en-
1 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
4 becomes permanent, model for the
| guidance of the entire world will be
furnished here.
The developments in the Mcnamara
trial came SO unexpected that the en-
4 tire city was amazed. A state OF
semi-anarchy existed. On one side
was the forces of labor firm in the re
lief that the McNamaras were to be
convicted though innocent in order
to strike death blow at union labor
4 On the other hand was capital wildly
Iclamoring for revenge and loudly pro
4 claiming that all organized workers
wei, anarchists ready to tear dowr
I the institutions of the government
and confiscate property because theil
! employers would not submit to abso
lutte dictation from the employees.
!. A crisis was impending. Attorne,
barrow and his associates had TO
more than a week thought the pre-
/ ponderance of evidence furnished b.
the state would send both brothers Il
s the gallows Workingmen and womel
the nation over had denied themselve
many of the smaller comforts of lif,
that they might give their mites to th
fund necessary to retain counsel ant
] detectives for the men whom they be
; lieved innocent.
i loyal persons to inform them tina
: they had been betrayed; that tn
prisoners. from their cells in the 10
i Angeles jail had sent out pleas 10
: help and assurances that they wer
| innocent, when their hands at tina
WI iiiOiiiCht NOtC Viii WITH III
r blood of twenty-one victims of TIL
r disastrous explosion
7 Millions were to be spent by attol
: neys for the defense As Attorne
, barrow walked back and forth in hi
room at the hotel bordering over tn
1 crisis, there flashed through his min
: the vision of hundreds of wome
3 workers toiling in the dingy facto
/. les of the great cities for small wage!
? yet Loyalty giving a share of their pi
: lance each week for the cause tha
they believed Just.
\ Despite the positive assertion toda
: by District Attorney Fredericks, tina
SO far as he was concerned, the "Golt
en- Rule" had nothing to do with tn
accepting of plea of guilty in til
Mcnamara case, Lincoln Steffens, VIII
(Conf{nuad IN na0a 9A