The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-07
J; ]. NJ 'NAMARA URGED
VIOLENCE AS EDITOR
Wrote Frequently in Official
Organ of Showing Scab
Loafer Does Not Pay
HE WARMED SALT LAKE
One Editorial FIinted of Ex-
plosion Which Soon Fol
lowed in This City

The following article. showing how
the official organ Of tho Iron Workers
favored acts Of violence and predicted
an explosion in Salt Lake, is reprinted
from the New York World OF Dcccm-
bcr ,.
JOHN j. Mcnamara sympathy for
violence in labor disputes was mani
tested In nearly every months number
OF the official organ OF tho lnternaiionhi
Association Of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers. Mcnamara WAS the cdi-
tor of this publication, the Brldgemen's
Magazine.
Not only the editorials but tho cor
| rcspondence from the local unions con
tanned outcroppnGs that became strlk-
insly significant when read In conjunc,
ton with McManIsars confession and
the chronology OF dynamitings.
| November 1907. the magazine con,
| taincd an editorial on the structural
iron (orcmen who had remained loyal To
the union. aside from the above" the
editorial continued "TIIEY ARE STILL
AMONG THE LIVING" Further along
was a reference Ito tho FOREMEN who
| have worked scnbs I'm tho present con-
test AND ARE STILL ALIVE"
Showed Them in Salt Lake.
| salt Lake City was tho scene of ono
OF the bittcrest contests between the
There There were several dynamtinss and
numerous assaults. j. T.. Munscy; busi-
ness agent OF the Salt Lake local, con
trlbuted a signed account OF The strike
| In the Bridgcmens Magazine OF July,
| 1909. in part as follows
They (the Minneapolis steel and
Machinery Company built IL i2-foot
board fence around the job, so the
| bunch could no, see them. but some
ungracious fellows hoIsted few
rocks over the sI,c fence ,o ThGy ,no, mus ~Si
n couple Of them. AND THE REST
OF THE SNAKES Ma COT or GoL6 g 10
THEM. THAT WAS TIE REASON
FOR THE HURRIED DEPARTURE
or WILCOX. THE KING SNAKE
Just prior. TO one of the Salt Lake OK
respondent reported in his regular
letter:
We are going 10 show he pGopls
in general that IT DOES NOT PAY
| 70 HIRE SCABS.
Edilorialiy the magazine said in April,
salt Lake City. Utah. is a bad
place for the open shop. The boys OF
how to cIrcumvent this particular fad
OF the American Bridge company ana
It's allies. Mr.. Jones the
bridge company invaded that bust,
ling city .. as an agent of the
American Bridge company pure and
dence and when in the future MI
tones SEES THE ERROR OF HIS
! WAY-AND HE WILL SEE lT-he
viii have a hard time TO convince
anyone that lie was not .ucrcN
tool OF our friend GU the American
| Bridge company.
This Company Gave in.
The Pan American Bridge company
plant al Newcastle. Ind, was dynamited
! April >. 1910. The company then ac-
| cedcd to the unions demands and IL is
alleged its general manager Jesse -.
Smith, was assured by II. S. Hockin;
executive board. THAT THE COMPANY
WOULD NOT BE MOLESTED AGAIN. .
On May 30. 1910. the correspondent OF
the local union reported to the magazine
"Halley's comet passed through here
on time and found about thirty OF our
Bridge company. THIS Is 4 SCAB JOB
TO START WITH. But THIS GO CON, a.,
PANY HAD TO BE SHOWN TLdAr
UNION MEN WE'RE THE CBEAFER.
The letter reports interview, by
Brother Hockin and the correspondent,
Edward Smythe: with the Lucas company
Of Peoria. which was dynamited on thc
following September 4.
December 10. 1909, w. b. Brown. Kan
sas City correspondent. wrote:
The only Job that looks bad is The
bridge that is TO be built across the
Missouri river the McClin,ic Mar
shall company have the contract
/ II is unnecessary To mention
the views OF the company toward
the structural Iron workers. and II
this aforesaid company tries 10 Inn
port loi Of dubs into Kansas City 10
do this job. WE WILL TRY AND
MAKE m INTERESTING FOR
THEM FOR by that time we Will
probably have two or three hundred
men here on other work that IL COM
ing up. and ] don't suppose we VIII
all he asleep all the time
Some More Convincing.
|, Tho following May Tho same CORE
, spondent reported that the McCintic-
Marshall people have imported scabs for
this bridge, the largest job ever under
taken in Kansas CITY. and added,
we hSye not not E.HStr9pr, EySnt 2p yeT; rIIEsE " =
/ PEOPLE that they ought to recognize
the bridge and structural iron work
ers."
The following August 23 material FOR
this bridge was dynamitcd: two other
! attempts al this bridge were abortiVc,
, Following is part Of am editorial APP
: peaTinS in the magazine last March. aft er
the .os Angeles murders and before The
McNamaras arrest
TAKE HEED AND BE WISE
! Indeed The fair man whether cm
III ployer or employee, Will always act
| upon the principle that an injury 10
| one is the concern OF all. No such
| noble soul exists in n Parry, a Post.
| Bridge company Los Angeles Times.
H. Otis or any individual. firm. corpor
| alton or comppnS lha, holds down in
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