The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-04

l New York. December 3-"T probably | shall have a formal statement to make
 but positively not until I have returned
 to my headquarters in Washington and gone over the McNamara case thorough | ly." said Samuel Gompers today.
 | When will you return to Washington?' | Possibly tomorrow, but l have nu- meorus engagements to keep which may take a weeks time before I am ready
 to make my statement
 Have your engagements today includ- ed conferences with labor leaders ihere?" "Although I have seen a number of men, there have been ne conferences. But I propose to make no informal state ments. These I have made will stand and will say nothing further until after thorough considerations"
 "The demand of some labor leaders for full penalty for the self-confessed men is
 said to be spreading. Will you oppose clemcncy?''
 "we will let the court sentence the men. I will not talk"
 Mir Gompers was in New York to- day after attending a meeting at Troy of the state factory Investigating com mission, of which he is a member.
 Knoxville
 | Knoxville, Tenn. December 3.-knox- vile Typogra aphical union No. i'll, the 1 first local to adopt resolutions condemnng the dynamitng of the Los Angeles Times building and demanding punishment or the offenders. shortly after that tragedy today adopted resolutions endorsing the l action of the 'pokane Central sLabor union, and asking that the maximum sen tence be given the McNamara brothers, | The resolutions state that the McNa- mara brothers have outraged the con fidence organized labor had in them ami deceived thousands of workingmen. who rallied to thoir support, and in. the i)e- lief that the soone rlabor unions free | themselves from the criminal element the better it will be for the cause Of labor = Chattanooga .ks
 Chattanooga, Tenn. December s'-- Reso- | lutions bitterly denouncing the MeSa- mara brothers were passed by the, Chat tanooga Typographical union today. The resolutions sl~ongly oppose clemency | for the self confessed dynamiters' ana demand that they be required to pay the maximum penalty for their crime The union went Il record as opposed to the practice of violence of any3Tiia- ture in conne tion with labor contra | versies " q Norfolk ~ k, ! l Norfolk. Va. December 3.-Norfolk Typographical union No. 32 today ndopted resolutions demanding the ,naximum penalty for the McNamaras, who confessed to dynamiting the Los | Angeles Times building and; the Llewel- ! lvn Iron works. PhillipJ Byrre, repre- senting the Boot and Shoe Manufac- turers' union of Boston, addressed the ,,rinters. He declared the confession of the McNamaras vas the greatest blow dealt union labor in 20 years, New York | New York, December, The. proposal | that the S190.000 fund secured by labor | unions to aid in the defense of the Me Namara brothers be turned over to tl.e relatives of victims of the Los Angeles Times disaster was ndorsed at a meet l ing of the Central Labor union of 1 Brooklyn today The McNabara broth l CTS were severely arraigned and the | sympathy and support of the Brooklyn unions was promised to President, Sam | ual Gompers of the National Fed eration. 6 N4.t The resolutions which were unani-
 mously adopted. read in part as fol- | lows: iH E
 We had a right to our belief that no man endowed by nature could be both | DI. Jekyl and Mir. Hyde with this belief
 underlying hope that mistake had been made we thought that it was up to US as brotherhood to see that proper de-