New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-25
s290,000 DEFENCE FUND.
Western Miners Ready to Raise
II, Says President Meyer.
"EASY TO HIRE '0RCHARDS'"
Defendant in Boise Trial Says
Labor Must Go Through An
other Great Siege.

Denver, April 24--Thc Western Feoera'
ton OF Miners stands ready to levy an rs,
sessment Of IS upon each Of fifty thousa"o
members as a defence fund for SecretaiS
J. J. Mcnamara. Of the Structural iro'
Workers Union.
| This statement was made TO-DAY W
Charles Fl. Mover. president Of the western
| Federation of Miners. Mr.. Meyer SAID
81 consider the entire affair 'frame-"p
similar to the one and my associates we'e
victims Of some years ago In connec''on
with the death of former Governor Steune"
berg of Idaho. The arrest OK McNaha''
shows on Its face that 1t was frame-up
He was treated exactly az we were. ne
was not given single show either by the
Governor Of Indiana or the courts OK Mar
| ion County.
THE charge that dynamite was Kept Dy
Mcnamara in the headquarters OF MS or
Cenization lie silly. II he was In the piow'
ing I'D business he would have too mucf
sense to keep dynamite around the head'
quarters 1t Is very easy to hire 'Orchards
to plant dynamite where the detectives VINO
paid them to plant 1t can find 1t.
The persons instrumental in McNa'
msra's arrest will have to produce good evil
dence to show why he wanted to blow ur
THE Los Angeles Times" when ne Is
member OF the structural ironworkers' or
ganization.
Their case might have looked better had
they arrested member Of the typograph-
| ical union. The Western Federation o'
Miners went through Just such siege. II
f. hard on the Individual, but It strength
tns the organization and also solidihes
| union labor
"All unions came TO our support, and now
the Western Federation will reciprocate.
We, will take official notice OF tho arrests
as Soon as it is necessary and We stand
ready to levy and pay willingly an assess
ment OF IS each on membership OF fifty
thousand or more to help defray the ex-
penses Of this, the second great fight that
has been started by the enemies OF organ
| lied labor.
Detective Burns has simply taken a
| number OF explosions that have occurred
over the country, employing a few Ut
chards,' and worked up a case"
Washington. April N-Representative
Frank Buchanan. OF Illinois, former presi-
| uenI OF the <S"'NiobN' -
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. In
statement to-day denounced as "a con-
spiracy against organized labor" the arrest
Of J. J. Mcnamara, Of indianapolis. secre-
tary treasurer OF the organization. Mr.
Buchanan paid a high tribute TO Nc
Namara. whom he said he knew well. and
declared his implicit faith in the latter
innocence OF any connection with the blow
ing UP OF THE Los Angeles Times"
| New Haven. April 2i.-E. l.. Warden, OF
this city, former International vice-presi-
dent OF the structural iron workers union,
| to-day declared II his belief that the arrest
OF ]. j. Mcnamara at Indianapolis on a
charge OF completely In the dynamiting OF
| the plant OF THE Los Angeles Times" was
part OF plot to harm labor unions
| throughout the country. He said he knew
Mcnamara. and did not believe he would
countenance violence in labor disputes.