The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-12-20

should be given the dynamiters. No
tonly had organized labor been de
cefved and imposed upon by the Nc
Namaras but its sense of right anC
justice had been outraged by thell
crimes. And hence sympathy haC
been turned into hate and supper
into denunciatiOn.
Now that organized labor seems
to be aroused it should purge itself
of other possible McNamaras and
teach it's members-the greatest and
the least of them-that every act
of a member which brings discredit
upon his organization is an act OF
! treason to his fellows and betrayal
of the principles of labor. The en-
! forcement of such creed is essen
! tial to the fullest development of
! labor unionism in the period upon
| which it is now entering.
More Arrests to Follow.
The confession and sentence of
the McNamaras are not the last
words on the outrages in which they
took part. Rather are they the pre-
lude. Investigations are now going
on in Los Angeles and Indianapolis
which are expected to throw a food
of light upon what the authorities
pronounce to be the most gigantic
conspiracy in the history of the
country, and these Investigations
are to be extended to other cities
with the probability of many more
arrests being made. 1t has been spe-
officially stated by w. j. Burns, the
detective whose investigation led to
the arrest of the McNamaras, that
other arrests are to follow and it
has been limited by others in the
confidence of the investigating bod
les that greater surprises are in
store for the public than either the
capture or the confessions of the
McNamaras.
In the nature of things such is to
be expected The dynamite outrages
have extended over a long period
and have covered almost the entire
country. From August, 1905, when
the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
declared a strike against the Amer
lean Bridge Co. against the policy
of the open shop, until this year
there have been 113 dynamite explO-
sions with a property loss of $3,-
100000 and a death list of 112.
In 1906 there were four eXplo-
sions; 1906, IL; 1907, six; 1908, 20;
1909, %; 1910, 20; 1911, Ii. The
explosions i 1910 included the Los
Angeles Times plant in October and
the Llewellyn Iron Works in Deem
Der; while among the outrages of
the present year were the wrecking
of a viaduct at Springfield, ILL.,, the
dynamiting of the court house at
Springfield, Mass, and the blowing
up of the Westchester & Boston rail-
way viaduct at Mt. Vernon, N. Y.
A Monthly Dynamite Fund.
Evidently there were others beside
Ortie McManigal and the McNama-
ras involved in these ages-oth-
ers higher up or members of an Gin
ner circle" who laid the plans and
furnished the funds-and when the
various Investigations are complete
there will be score or more others
sent to join the McNamaras.
1t is matter well known to the
authorities that during the period of
the destructive activities of the Nc
Namaras there was deposited in an
Indianapolis bank $1,000 a month
subject to the call of John J. McNa-
mara, and that this money was used
for dynamiting purposes is an inevi-
table conclusion.
The federal government is now
conducting Investigations both at
Los Angeles and Indianapolis, the
inquiry of the latter bearing on the
interstate shipment of high explo-
siyes contrary to the federal law.
At Los Angeles also there is an
to the arrested trials of
the McNamaras growing out of the
of a yenireman, George M. |
and of a juror, Robert F.
Balm, by an agent for the defense,
Bert H. Franklin, who paid a por-
ton of $4,000 to each to hang
the jury.
Punishment of McNamaras.
When the Mcnamara brothers