The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-04-29
Attempt Being Made to Show
That Union Labor Is Breeder
of Awful Crimes.
WALTER DREW INVOLVED:
STARTED LOCAL LOCKOUT
Conspiracies of Criminal Nature
Can Not Continue Without
Danger to Nation.
BY W. f.. McEN-EN.

Whom the Gods would destroy they
first make mad"
Lord forgive them for they know
not what they do"
A repetition of the kidnapping Of
Meyer and Haywood occurred this
week, and again it is an officer of
union labor who is the victim.
Different in this case, however, the
officials OF Indiana were early to
recognize their mistake, and now they
are attempting to make amends by
encouraging the arrest of the partici-
pants of the kidnapping.
One of those arrested is no less
parsonage than Walter Drew. the
man sent to Duluth by the American
Bridge company to inaugurate the
lockout in the building trades.
He sneaked into the city like
a thief at night, spread his poison
among the members of the CONNER
cial club, and then left the local la
Dor antagonists to work out their own
situation.
Drew's Chief Asset.
Drew is one of those kind of men
who thrive on controversies between
Sopllo1 ollu ldUOl. IL LIlSSc LWO great
factors could ever get together Drew
would be obliged to engage his pur-
suits in some other direction. His
chief asset is in discrediting the or
ganizations of labor.
kidnapping Outrage.
The brazen manner by which Nc
Namara was kidnapped out of the
state of Indiana has divorced public
sympathy from the prosecutors of
labor. If he is guilty of the crime
charged against him no punishment
will be too severe,-hut- if he is inno-
cent he IS a ruined man. and no ac-
quittal by jury will restore him to
his place among men.
l know Mcnamara we'll. From my
knowledge of the man he is as in
capable of committing the crime
charged against him as would be our
good friend DR.. Rice of the First
Methodist church. 1t is unthinka BILE
that any official of a labor organiza-
ton would be guilty of wilfully de-
stroying building by dynamite, and
numbering innocent men.
Labor Law Abiding.
The trade union movement, under
not thrive upon violence, and none
know this so we'll as do it's learned
adherents. The destruction of the
Los Angeles Times building under
no circumstances could have given
the labor movement any advantage
But we will await the slow process
of the courts in California. Time
alone will vindicate the labor move
1nent. We can now only object to
the means resorted to by the repre-
sentatives of the National Erectors'
association, the private dete ctive,
Burns, and the ready and willing JUS
ttce of an Indiana court in hustl1ng
Mcnamara out of the state without
giving him chance to consult coun-
sci, and to protect his rights.
Due Process of Law.
we hear much nowadays about
due process of law" 1t Is a phrase
readily used by employers in antag-
onlz1ng legislation compelling them
to pay for injuries to their employees,
but 1t seems to be entirely forgotten
when applied to the representatives
of workingmen.
This thing can not go on forever
without an effective and telling pro-
test from labor.
Meyer and Haywood were kid
naped out of the state of Colorado
in a rather unusual manner. and
contrary to the provisions of the con-
stitutlon of the United States, Labor
all over the country was put to much
expense In helping to prove their in
rOcence.
Fred Warren, editor Of the Appeal
to- Reason, was given an unusual
sentence for offering a reward to any
person who would kidnap ex-Gov.
Taylor into the state Of Kentucky
from whence he was a fugitive, and
Just to test the equality Of the law
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison
are now in danger of imprisonment
not for violating the law of the land
but for a technical violation of the
order of a whimsical judge.
After their arrest the records OF
the A. F. of L., for twenty years
past were secured to find evidence
to convict them. And they were
convicted. Only the supreme co1r,
of the United States. stands between
them and imprisonment
Now comes the Mcnamara case
After his arrest the records of the
Structural Iron Workers are searched
to find something that will offer jus
uflcation to the detectives for the
outrage they have perpetrated.
Provoking Resentment.
No this thing can not 20 on for
. ever. Each and every case hereto re-
cited is faggott that may some
time furnish fuel for the complete
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