United labor bulletin., 1911-09-28
AFTER MAn-STEALERS,
SAYS sam G0MPERS
Gompers Delivers An Address in
Los Angeles and Is Given
An Ovation.

Five thousand people listeE=d TO and
cheered the utterances of President
Gompers in the Shrine Temple, Los
Angeles. An excerpt from the address
follows:
"An Interpretation is now placed on
the Sherman antitrust law that places
unions in the position of trusts. This
law was enacted to protect the people
from the trusts and corporations, and
they now propose to use it to control
our minds, bodies and existence. On the
morning after the decision was rendered
by the supreme court dissolvine some of
the trusts for the violation of this law
their stocks raised in the market"
Closing his address he made a refer
ence to the Mcnamara case, now pend
ing in the courts in which he said:
Some months ago there occurred in
this city the destruction of a great build
ing and the loss of many human lives.
doubt If there were many men on this
continent not shocked to tears. II was
an awful happening. But before the
news of that catastrophe was flashed to
the world half an hour there formed a
chorus that pointed to union labor and
charged it with the crime.
My friends. when we heard this we
knew the source of the accusation. We
know men of labor, and We know crime
is repugnant to men of labor We know
men of labor cannot be guilty of such a
great crime Our movement does not
depend on crime and brutality and can
not succeed with crime and brutality.
AT the time Of the accusation it was
not known what caused the explosion,
and it is not known now We were
shocked and our sympathies touched to
the deepest Asain we were shocked
when. months later, a detective and his
man Friday-BUrns and Hosick-went
to Indianapolis 10 the Offices of the
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
when ]. j. Mcnamara was lured away
without warning, taken to a justice of
the peace. asked if his name was Nc
Namara. and when he answered affirma-
lively was ironed and taken 5000 miles
away with no opportunity for goodbye,
no opportunity to secure lawyer or de
lend his rights,
No one can minimize crime involv-
ing death and the destruction of prop
erty. II is our hope that such cases
may be eliminated. but, when the de
tectives go manstealing the public is en-
dangered. Detective Burns has declared
several times that the general run of
detectives are the worst and most un-
scrupulous scoupdrels unwhipped, and
all he has accused turn around and say
he is another.
Upon you and me devolves the duty
of standing by men We know and having
faith in their innocence. We shall stand
by them at least until they have been
declared guilty by jury of their peers.
At the same time we will prosecute TO
the fun extent this man Burns. They
wouldn't dare to hdnap Rockefeller. or
Astor. or Vanderbilt They wouldn't
kidnap any of these trust magnates who
sell their daughters to some woruout
count.
I'VE are after these manstealers, and
let me say this in connection. congratu-
lations and hats OFF to Governor johnson
of California for his actions and fair
ness in connection with the eStradition
of Hosick. When an attorney came from
Indiana with the papers for him the gov
ernor gave him an opportunity to gain
legal counsel and defend himself in the
highest courts of the state, and when
he saw that everything was regular he