The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-08-03

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prosecutors and they may be forced
to stay in Jail until after that takes
place. Bail was fixed in that sum by
| Judge Willis, an avowed anti-unoin
| labor men,
| Clarence Darrow urged John ]. Nc
Namara to talk freely to newspaper
men who interviewed him today 1t
was agreed no mention should be
| maze or the TIMES case. The stories
III All the newspapers, with the ex-
! 'eptloh OF the Otis sheets, wer. fair
ana given rather favorable shade.
attorney barrow was present during
the interview and he. made a number
! OF suggestions that brought out inn
portant points,
another statement was given t. the
National Socialist press in which John
Mcnamara said:
u have devoted the better part of
my life to the building up of organ
l!ed Labor !ne end in vi.w has been
ne Improvement of the co.It:.rl of
the working class. Whatever happens
to me | will never have any dNher
motive. 7 am confident that some time
the public will understand and realize
that this case is the same as those in
the past where it has been the carry
I ing out of principles relative to the
betterment of the conditions of the
workers that has been responsible for
prosecutions of this kind This case
Is but cog in a great wheel
Il began work at the structural iron
trade in 1898. I was 20 years of age
Two years latter l. joined the union
and have been identified with organ
iZed labor ever since. At that time
the average wage was from 81 so to
$3.50 a day. Now 1t IS $3.50: then we
worked ten hours a day. the-Nay is
now two hours shorter. The increase
in wages and the shortening of hours
has undoubtedly been the result Of or
ganization but it has not kept peace
with the cost of living.
"A great deal has been accomplished
through labor organizations in the
direction of decreasing the hazard >of
the workers. When we began there
were practically no safeguards. EN-
ployers were not bound to establish
preventive devices. Now it Is the
rule. secured in practically all the
states through legislation We have
about 10000 mem bers and we average
twenty death claims a month The
death rate on non-union Jobs is great
er.
Every step in the contest for i'm
proved conditions has been fought by
the great steel interests When the
steel trust began the fight against un-
ion labor it adopted a policy of no
quarter. 1t has followed this policy
consistently. The structural iron
workers fight is historical. Union
labor men know of our struggle and
how we have won in spite of the OBJ
stacles and the misrepresentation and
lawlessness on the part of the agents
OF the billion dollar combination that
was against u.s."
Mrs. Emma McNIanigal lies in tho
Pacific Hospital in serious condi-
ton. Drs. Colburn and Lewis. who
are IN attendance say it is not possi-
ple TO decide yet whether she will be
permanently paralyZed in her lower
llihpS. They attribute her condition
10 the hounding of the Burns OPERA
ives VINO nave not left her day or
hisht. Two of these ghouls followed
the ambulance that carried the woman
to the hospital
William ]. Burns own" story os
MS great work in kidnapins the Nc
Eamara brothers, as told by Harvev
oHiggins in this months McClure's
was jolt in Los Angeles TODAY nv tho
afternoon Record which carried az ira
most conspicuous story an. editorial on
the front page entitled Shame or
Fou' burns 1t was spread across the
ehIire seven columns and closed saw
ing IN pursuing such cold -bIooded
TACTICS Burns and his trust employers
may be brewing a hellbroth for the
United States''
sacramento Cal,-The Star. the loc-
al Scripps paper, has come out for the
straight Socialist ticket in the present
municipal campaign. Its announce
fnent was made in a ringing front
page story holding that the Socialist
party is the only one representing the
great ninety-five percent of the peo-
pie against the favored few. Local
socialists now are doubly determined
to carry the city
rev more defences OF labor in
capltallstic courts will exhaust the
funds of uaiOniStS The hos, a.e.