The Washington times., 1911-12-08

committee report on the expenditures
Of the fund Of 100000 or more, raised to
aid the Los Angeles dynamiters. Will
not be made until January 8. The COM
mittee now stands adjourned, after
having issued a statement defendins
President Gompers and the American
Federation of Labor in connection with
the McNamaras' case.
The seriousness of the split between
Gompers, Morrison, and other members
Of the committee on the one hand, ana
Frank M. Ryan, president OF the inter-
national Association OF Bridge ana
Structural Iron Workers, Is emphasized
by the fact that Ryan's name does not
appear signed to the statement. with
the names of all the other committee
men. Ryan had left the city before
signing the statement last night.
The committee adjourned after sign
ing the statement and will not meet
again for days, It was stated this morn
ing. The statement Is lengthy de-
tense of the American Federation OF
Labor and Gompers personally. The
McNamaras are denounced, but more
space, is given to denunciation Of Gen.
Harrison Grey Otis. George Post, and
other avowed enemies Of organized
labor.
Regarding the defense fund, the dis
position of which brought the COM
mittse together, the only statement
made is that a full report will be made
executive committee of the American
Federation of Labor when the body
meets here January 8.
Much space 10 given to reasserting
that gas caused the real wreckage OF
the Los Angeles Times building. and
that knowledge. that gas had been leak
ing is what caused Gompers and others
to believe the McNamaras were not
20 betectve Burns Both for
recent charges by him and for the al
legged kidnapping Of the McNamaras' in
Indianapolis.
Welcome Investigation.
Labor Is declared to join in general
satisfaction that the majesty Of the law
has been upheld and the culprits pun
ished for their crimes.
1t is. declared the signers of the state
ment will welcome any investigation by
Federal or State courts. and this is de-
clared to be stated in behalf of labor.
Relative to the lesson" taught by
the Mcnamara affair this official state
ment says:
.'rhe men OF organized labor. in COM
mon, with all our people, are grieved
beyond expression in words at the loss
of life and the destruction Of property
not only In the case Under discussion,
but in any other case which may have
occurred. We are hurt ami Inundated
to think that any man connected with
the labor movement should. have been
guilty Of either. The lesson this grave
crime teaches will, however. have its
salutary effect. It will demonstrate
now, more than ever, the inhumanity
as we'll as the futility OF resortins to
violence in the effort to right wrongs
| or to attain rights. A1H'.
"In view Of the great upl,ft work in
which the men OF the labor movement
have been and are engaged, and the In
dustrial problems with which they have
| to contend, ue insist that our orGaniza-
they do and elm 10 do rather than to
be opposed and stlgmatized because one
or a few may be. recrcant To the good
name and high 5idd:.ls OF labor: and We
and the press Of America fcr fail
treatment" l...,. ~, a
In defending Gompers the statement
says that the day after the Times was
following interview to a St. Louis
paper: -.
Labor does not stand for such out
RACES. nor. contemplate such crime. !
done it. and deeply hope no one who
was connected with the labor movement
will be found to have done 1t. 1t Is In
conceivable that a union man should
have done this thing. And yet, II 1t is
found that a union man has done it,
unicnism cannot be blamed by fair
minded men for the deed Of a man de-
| void of any human feeling, as the per-
petrator of this horrible catastrophe
must have been. 1t was the act Of q
mailman. No one with an ounce OF
sympathy in his makeup could dc
aught but contemplate such a crime
| with the deepest adherence"
"These facts were further fully pre-
scented in the June. 1911. issue of the
page article entitled the 'McNamara
Case" in which the leading facts up to
that time were reviewed. Speaking be-
| fore the st. Louis Central Labor Union