The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-07-27
EMilwaukeeize Your DUN Town"
Says j. j. Mcnamara

Il deem IT wise to warn our read
ers to take lots of salt with the ordi-
nary newspaper reports coming from
as our cases are concerned.
They will be highly colored. De-
pend upon official reports and the So
cialist press. Al The same time MIL
WAUkEEIZE our own town
John j.. Mcnamara. International
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES International AS
sociation of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, writing from the Los
Angeles Jail for the Bridgeman's
Magazine, h official organ.
From the Los Angeles Jail. where
he is imprisoned awaiting trial for
his life on a framed up charge of
having caused the dynamiting of the
Times plant. JOIN J.. Mcnamara pens
an Indictment of the Toes of labor
which is mastery. in its strength.
Shows Glass Struggle.
2 In the course of this indictment he
points out the class struggle in
strong terms when he tells of those
who describe as fanatics" those who
work in the interest of the %toilers,
men and m
He writes:
The people who call them fanatics
are for the few against the many,
they believe in a ruling class; they
believe that the master class has di-
vine authority.
They bend the knee to the Goldfish
aristocracy of Europe. forgetting the
revolutionary struggles of our fore
fathers to throw off the shackles of
that selfsame aristocracy; they ped
die their daughters for an empty for
ergn title; they work the divorce
courts overtime, populate Reno, New,
and at the same time sustain spine
less preachers and editors who, from
the pulpit and through the press. will
condone or entirely overlook the rank
injustices that are being mlearthed
from day to day; they endow universi-
lies, build Libraries and in other ways
attempt to fool that great mass of
the people known as the public
What makes the above possible?
What Makes 1t.
Dollars and cents unequally divid-
| ed.
HON are these dollars and cents
obtained?
All! That is a long story and
time and space will not permit of de-
tailed reply; but listen briefly.
They are obtained out of the flesh
and blood. the sinew and bone of the
the mill instead of in the home; the
toiler. the woman in the factory or
child of tender years in the cannery
or at the loom instead of in the park
or the school; long hours. low wages
and oppression for the man. woman
M child who have to earn their
bread by the sweat of their brows.
This rush for the dollar and brib-
cry and corruption by the dollar wor-
shippers is the cause of men being
sent to sea in unsafe vessels, the
murder of thousands of miners in the
bowels of the earth and the murder
ing and maining of thousands of per-
O n annually by the railroads of the
country.
Could BE Volumes.
THE above Indictment. terrible as
it is. could be enlarged on. SO that it
would he pages, yes, volumes. instead
of lines.
Ou the Otner hand. organized Ia
Dor and its supporters have always
been for the many as against the
few: with certain just and reasonable
restrictions they extend the hand of
fellowship to all. and color. religion
and nationality is never a bar to MEM
bership: they favor a free country IN
all that the term implies. h
cant or hypocrisy to any nation or
nations: they advocate keeping the
woman in the home, the child in the
school and the obtaining for TIE head
of the family higher wages. shorter
hours and better working conditions,
so that he and his family may have
more of the necessaries of life, more
time and an increased opportunity to
at least in n measure, the
moral. Intellectual and physical make
up of his family and himself, while he
is a useful factor in advancing the
material interests of his employer and
his country.
The above comparison is a hur-
ried one. but we leave it to any DIS
interested person as to who is the
fanatic"
THE POORHOCSE.