Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-12-08

and that they were making a big mis-
take When | heard this | was the
one who was shocked l investigated
and found that Gompers did have
previous knowledge of the situation
and all his talk is buncomb.
Let him deny that he Joined the
party in indianapolis right after Nc
Namara's arrest while they were wait
ing for news from Detroit thai five
places selected had been dynamited-
waiting to jollify. But we got those
fellows in Detroit and they didn't jo.-
lily.
81 see by the newspapers today that
some of the New York leaders of Or
ganized labor are ticking steps to SUP
press violence. Thank Heaven they
are seeing the light. But the only
thing for them to do is to pick out
the corrupt leaders and corrupt mach
inc that is now in control of organ
lied labor
eff they want to retain the conf
dence of the community they will
have to dispense with the services o.
Gompers and his kind who are dis
gr9ce to organized labor.
"He had knowledge that McManigal
and ]. B. Mcnamara were travelling
around the country with cans of dyna
mite on crowded railroad cars where
if one of the cans exploded there
wouldn't have been enough of the car
to tell what it was When the man
told this he turned pale at the thought
of what might have happened"
Asked if he expected to get any in
formation from the McNamaras that
would help his invest; cation, Mr..
Burns said that he did not When
the n mes Of Caplan and Schmidt,
two of the men implicated by Ortie
McManigal in the dynamiting enter
prises were mentioned, Mr.. Burns
said
Il know that the people connected
with the Mcnamara defense right at
this moment have Schmidt under the I
control and can produce him and a"e
paying out money to keep him where
he is. | believe the same thing about
/ c. plan, only my knowledge of him is
not as positive as that about Schmidt.
Reverting to the subject of his
planned assassination he said he had
never been attacked but added:
eff any attempt had been mad:
| the country would have herd of t.
you can rely on that The only one
am afraid of was the fanatics who
might be aroused by incendiary talk
of Gompers. The other fellows know
that ! am not going to stand around
where they can kick me and get away
with it,"
Denying that he was an enemy of
union labor, Mr.. Burns asserted he
would eventually prove to be lis
friend. Already he said, leaders who
We're misled by Gompers have ex-
pressed regret for attacking him and
men in the ranks who contributed to
the Mcnamara defense fund have writ
ten to tell him of their confidence in
him. He declared there are in the
country excellent type of the right
kind Of union labor leaders
"Thele is for instance. the he d CT
the Locomotive Fly \ rs Brother-
hood" he sad "a NJ artar, very
conservative bish minded business
man WHO mas tho fesnnct OF every
community IN wAich he is known.
And We have never been able to find
a single p9rticle of evidence that
John Mitchell has had anything to do
With these outrages or countenancing
them. Note the difference between
Mitchell and Gompers when they
heard of the arrest of the McNam-
aras. Mitchell merely said that he
hope they would be able to prove
their innocence.
But l believe that Mitchell and all
the l. Dor leaders were to blame for