The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-12-16

with the same ardor that they had de-
smanded "a fair trial u FOR the accused
men when they thought them innocent,
victims. ss +: IL St IL s=4 ..5 . s.,
1T is such deceptive conduct as that
Of the McNamaras that tends to sour
the milk Of human kindness. Man can
hate crime and yet pity the criminal;
but man not only hates hypocrisy but
despises the hypocrite. We have no
desire to add to their present misery:
hut it is hard. for one connected with
the labor movement to find language
strong enough to condemn the crime
to which they have confessed NJ 4
Labor's Ideals Higher. >-
: In committing such crime. the
McNamaras knew that they were act
Ing contrary to the high ideals and
lofty principles of .orga nized labor.
They have proven false to those ideals
and principles. BY committing such a
crime and subsequently involving or
ean1zed labor, as they did by posing
as victims of plot against it, they
have not only furnished ammunition
Tor the enemies .1of organized labor
but they have, to some extent disa bled
those who are fighting labors battle
and have placed additional obstacles
in the path of labor's progress
More emphatic, but no less positive,
is the declaration from the Colorado.
Industrial Review of Denver, out
where workingmen have the reputa-
ton for being militant: "t
Traitors to Labor. 49, !.
TRAITORS they are to labor's high
n oa1 To-. f~oi 10. 49,
bore them, who still believes them in
nocent; traitors to the cause of labor
itself, which is builded, not on vio-
lence or outlawry, but on the peace,
full solution of all economic and polit-
ical problems. -. .
violence, murder, and bloodshed
are the direct offspring of ignorance.
are the weapons of those whose intel
hgence is darkened by the blackness
Of bigotry and hate.
The Mcnamara crime Is not a
crime of labor; it is a crime against
labor, by individuals, and as any. other
similar crime it merits it's just pun
ishment -,
violence begets deeper violence and
hatred and he who advocates it's use
IS dangerous factor in society,""
Violence Can Not Win.
The Pittsburgh Trades journal
takes sweeping View, and hits back
ut some things which union labor must
soon learn to heed. It says: -.
violence In the struggles of union
labor-like assassination in the strug-
gles of nations-always has done more
harm than good.
Assassination never reformed a ma
ton. Violence has yet to win its first
strike.
''The McNamaras are to be bitterly
condemned for the dynamitings, but
they are to be pitied for being so te-,
norant- as to believe they could thus
serve the cause 1of-orga nized labor
But are the McNamaras wholly to
blame? 49,, -
"Can organized labor. escape en-
tlrely responsibility for the existence
of Mcnamara?
Isn't dynamiting a building the nat
ucal result of a system which approves
the beating up of strike-breaekrs?
Thugery Must Stop. .
Many unionists wink at this prac-
tice;:xsome openly advocate lit. Some
E1entin nearly all unions and nearly all
mem In: some onsspractice thugery
n"strikes g: "-z7, 49,. !, ~@rIS
Ignorance. alone approves such tao
tics! :.
1.-THE Mcnamara case is not an I'M
expected result to thousands of sincere
trade unionists who have preached
day in day out against violence in con-
flicts with employers .::...:
1T is from small beginning that all
frightful evils grow! -
1T is from the practice of Handing:
Of fives' to scab- that there springs
the criminal recklesness which hurls
a dynamite bomb into a building filled
with human beings .<:s :::EE. = -
THE lesson Of the McNamaras is
plain. 1t must be needed if unionism
is. to live. - >.
"All violence must stop"
Labor Is Indignant.
The Baltimore Labor Leader,
though more conservative, is no less
denunciatory. It views the situation
in part as follows:
':.The mass of laboring people of the
country are opposed to such crimes
as that .of which the McNamaras
have pleaded guilty, and they may be
relied upon to aid in the punishment
of those committing them. The man
who will do SUCH thing is no friend
Of anybody, and should be extermin-
ated as mad dog or other menace to
public safety and welfare. 49,
Nothing: does more to weaken a
cause than acts Of violence perpe-
trated by its professed partisans.
1.-The union man or women who
commit acts Of violence are the worst
enemies of trades unionism, and it is
only right and natural that the thou
sands identified with labor organiza-
tons, should turn as one man against
all who follow the creed of blood and