The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-05-19
FACTORY Men HEAR !.
ADDRESS BY OTIS
Donation of Federation oil
Labor to Alleged Dyna-
miters Discussed. M

70 whore the money came from to pay
the men who dynamited tho offices Of
The Los Angeles Times was raised At
the meeting Of the National Manufac.
tursrs' association at the Waldorf.As-
toeia.
John Kirby. Jr. president OF the or
gauisation. said in the course Of his
annual report. that there had been a
special assessment of about 100000
Ct the Norfolk convention Of the Am
erican Federation of Labor In Novem-
Der, 1908. TO be placed at the disposal
Of its executive board to be used In
fighting General Harrison Gray Otis.
the proprietor Of the Los Angeles
Times.
AT the Ct. Louis convention. No
vember, 1870" continued Mr.. Kirby.
''the amount reported az remaining in,
that fund was $4,000. which makes.
pertinent the query: Were the vii
Hans who perpetrated that awful crime
paid from that fund. and, II 90, how
much?
Carnival Of Crime.
II make bold the assertion that
many men. who coddle and encourage
the principal heads of the organization
which alone 10 responsible for that
crime. will not escape just condemna-
ton for the helpingthand they have ex.
tended to them In the promotion of the
carnival Of crime In which the organi-
sation's agents are constantly engaged.
and to continue which,it 10 now trying
10 raise another huge sum-"
General Otis was present at the
meeting and told the manufacturers
something about the explosion which
wrecked his newspaper building and
allied 81 persons.
1.-THE question:" he said. els whether
small minority shall be permitted to
dominate the great majority of labor.
which majority does not desire to an
tagonise employers. Regarding the
Los Angeles on October 1. 1910. only
want to say that the loss of life and
property there sustained, great AZ 1t
was ana deplorable az 1t was. cannot
compare In importance with the great
cause at stake. Had the Los Angeles
Times, it, workmen and it, owners
all been destroyed the world would
have little reckoned nor long remem.
bsred the event.
But the world can never forget the
great principle Of industrial liberty,
which. % sacred ~ any other form Of
liberty. II menaced throughout the
whole land. That II what 1t means.
when one act Of violence follows an
other. until the perpetrators Of 1t be-
como absolutely obsessed with the
idea that they may win through the
terrorism which they inspire and
through the cowing OF the men who
make and administer the laws. It 10
your part and mine. and the part of ev-
cry other self-respecting citizen to con-
tinue the battle until this becomes In
truth and reality the land Of liberty,
political and industrial AZ well a. per.
soual, Q land where those word repre-
cent realities and not the mere mouth
inss OF orators"
tional association reported at the SEES
zion 70 Senator LaFollette's bill In re-
lation to the removal Of government
employees. The committee believes It
would b dangerous to permit govern
ment employees to take membership In
organisations whose obligations might
require them to take part In strikes
and and boycotts against the public
Interests.