The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-12-08
(By E. P. MARSH.)

(By E. P. MARSH)
been thorny path the
The battle for existence always fierce In the battle
rights it is no uncommon thing to the weak hamped and
despoled aer the unequal struggle
progress Defeats upon the
dqstra field have left their pang But nothing in all modern
Mcnamara brothers admitted their awful guilt.
1t isn't pleasant impressions
phase of the labor struggle just the word guilty falling from
tails add the burden of heart wearnes AS write thousand
and accusations and accusations flying the
days all the alleged conspiracy
are known They may never be known But this fact stands
out without question denial that high in the councils of
his trade union organization is by his confession, guilty of
aspirations trials and struggles of the who toll daily
bread because know the trade union built
ence and deceit because know that the labor must be
candid and it to be the influence the march of human
is marked out to be- because realize these things
writing this article.
Of James B. Mcnamara little is known by trade uionists
Contrary report he monist did belong
organization far know He is referred the Cn
cnn printer" but typographical union records do not bear his
anywhere He the to execute but the to
plan The crafty cold boodd laying Of plans work for
with more highly developed brains than he possessed.
John j. Mcnamara of totally different stripe
scholar in many senses Of the word man of refined
admitted of be
The organization which he was secretary is COM
posed of who follow stern calling Violent death while at
baG be f s n bE bnIin in 'I that iti th
steady fire the T. corporation
years determination of unonism
How when the idea of destruction of property weapon
the eternal struggle took the brain Of j. Mcnamara
known 1t be that he became obsessed with the uty
opposing the piled up Golfers of the nothing
but the to worand sarve Or he have been
inherently criminal The hardest problem earth
the problem of the inner workings Of the human mind No matter
More than that he became and will be known history the u
thing in the daily press in connec
ton with the affair an nsnuahon that labor sorry mot that
about labor And when say labor average
who holds union card The wrong done labor
when John Mcnamara conceived and caused be executed the
first dynamite outrage Human be attained only
Of to learn the justice and right of contention and
obedience the laws of society When John j. Mcnamara
told him that he doing that which would surely against
the of labor with deadly effect That then his first
do not underestimate the provOcation sometimes
under in this old struggle of the working people know that
capitalism commits fearful that in the
wealth and the uggemau of gold brushes and mains the
souls and bodies of the workers of the world The appalling fig
of disease and death in the cotton mills the coal mines the
admontion thou shalt not applies with equal
Capitalism will its day of reckoning for crimes
and not the province of Jno Mcnamara other
imagine himself the insument of and his mission
wreakng of that with dynamite bomb ncenday
And the questions uppemos in the mind of
every student of the labor 'Why organ
lied labor rush bndy to the defense of the accused from the
of their arest Why did let justice
and await the verdict loudly pocamng their Why
did pour money into the defense fund?"
There answers to those questions The of
such belief The best that the taking of human he
whether directly indirectly absolutely repugan the
rank and file of and utterly with the funda
mental principles upon which the of trade
stands So thing the blowing up of the Times
building that it nconceivable that trade official any
where could have done and asped his brothers. hand
greeting the of
methods which apparently detective though he
all the law and the gospeof illegally sezng and sptng
the continent Because in Los Angeles dwt the
peakabe Otis who for has fought only organized
every with magnancy unparalleled in the
annals labor haters of time Because for year relentless
had been waged Los Angeles between capital
and the air reeked with the poisonous of
ngendeed by the Los Angeles Times
Merchants Association Because the law every
fair trial before the law be he guilty innocent Because of
the apparent bias of the presiding judge there
prospective who inclined the theory while
ing those who favored the dynamite theory Because wealth
behind the prosecution and the only
ense few dollars Think you had thought
guilty would have raised money publicly and frankly
had doneg guilt works dark
steaty silently Had thought them possibly guilty