The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-07-29
URGENT REQUEST FOR ,
PROMPT CONTRIBUTIONS
Intrigue Falsehood and Perfidy
Must Not Be Suffered to
Gain Ascendancy. r.: Z
To All Workers.: .e'.-@ -. -. !.
+ For right is right, since God is God,
r And right the day must win; ~
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin. ,.t

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Los Angeles Times building had been
destroyed. with the loss of a num-
Der of lives. The first word spoken,
even before the flames had completed
their destruction, by the emissaries
OF the Times contained positive de-
clarations that organized labor was
responsible for the disaster. Qualify
ing Statements were CONSPICUOUS by
their absence. Wide publicity was
given, warped and unsupported alleg-
atoms against the organized workmen
of the entire country were featured.
vast sums of money were dangled
in the faces of INSCRIPTIONS men to
fasten the crime upon some member
or members of the trade unions. The
National Manufacturers association,
thanked by the Erectors' association,
Citizens alliances, detective agencies
and hostile press, brought their
every influence to bear and appro-
priated every available circumstance
to bulwark and fix in the public mind
mental attitude that the charges
made against organized labor had
been proven beyond the peradventure
Of a doubt. .":
The authors of the charge, after
months Of intrigue and searching in
vestigations, utterly failed to substan-
tate the .flamboyant and positive
accusations that had been made. The
public mind was slowly emerging
from the hypnotic spell in which it
had been enveloped and mutterings Of
suspicion began to be heard against
the originators of the indictments
against labor men. The position of
the hostile employers associations be-
came exceedingly desperate. The
Times management, with its years Of
relentless warfare against humanity,
fearing that its Belshazzar feast of
organized labor's blood was about to
be: denied, redoubled its efforts, and
demanded that a sacrifice must be
furnished that its unholy appetite
might be appeased, specifying that
some union workmen or workmen
must be supplied to .assuage its UNI
natural and abnormal hunger. :.
The record of events Is too we'll
known to make it necessary to res
count them in detail. That "the end
justifies the means became the slo-
gan, is patent. With all the forces
Of greed compactly Joined there be-
gan a. compaign of vandalism the
like of which has never before found
Judgement on the pages of our Amer
lean Republics history. A prominent
member of union labor was selected,
j.. J. Mcnamara, and one at whom
the finger Of suspicion mad never be-
fore pointed, whose life had bee char
acterized by an uprightness Of pur-
pose and loyalty to the cause of la
Dor, and whose activities In every
walk had drawn to him the common
dalton of his fellows. To give the
stage the proper setting and to i'm
volve other trades than the ironwork-
ers, J. 3. MCNAMARA, the brother,
was selected the sacrifice. ..,.,
With intrigue, fasehood and an ut
ter disregard for all forms of law,
applying individual force, conniving
with faithless officials, the two Nc
Namaras were rushed in feverish
The rights of these two men have
been trampled upon, wilfully, fla
gravity and wantonly. ,s4 H..
Every man, even the meanest, UNI
der the constitutional guarantees Of
our country, Is entitled to a trial by
a jury of his peers. and every man
is presumed to be innocent until
proven guilty. The i, 2'*.
proven guilty. Thus far the proceed
ings have been outside the pale Of
those guarantees. The charge has
been lodged against organized labor,
and two Of its members are now be-
fore the bar to answer to these
charges. What is the duty of the or
ganized labor movement? What shall
be our course? What efforts shall we
put forth to see to, it that Justice shall
finally obtain -. :5.#
The intellect, heart and soul OF the
men Of labor yield to no body or class
Of citizens in their fidelity in obedi-
ence to the law, and their history is
replete; with instance of sacrifice that
humanity may be protected. If with-
in the ranks Of labor, there are those
who commit attractions Of the law,
then they should be punished but
there should not be instituted double
standard of justice-one for the
wealthy malefactor and onther for
the workman. Y. ], :,s3$ f.1s .a= it = v
The organized labor movement be-
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nocent. Upon that belief there de-
voles upon us another duty. The ac-
cused men are workmen, without
means Of their own to provide pros
per defense. The assault is made
against organized labor equally with
the McNamaras. If we are true to
the obligations we have assumed, if5 ii
is hoped to forever settle this system
Of malicious prosecutor OF the. men
OF labor, our. duty - plain. 5#5s
Il. Funds must be provided to insure
! e fair and imp atrial trial Eminent
counsel has been & engaged. W. All ar
rsatnse Z, are proceeding 4 that 8 q
proper defense. may be mad &. The
great ne need Of the hour Is money with
which ,iscl to meet the heavy drains In
c CID mt to the collection of evidence
and other necessary exp nse.
Every man who was connected with
the kid piping . L ID he ii AcNannaras
VIII be prose cuted to tho afi1ll limit
of The lle law. Is that the
Int IL rests & of organized labor shall IS