The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-05-01
Full Strength Of Party
Pledged to Their
Defeuse.
f EDERATI N
4 R4AISING FUND
Leaders Of National and State
Labor Organizations in Secret
Conference Over Dynamiting
Case General Strike Pro
posed on Day Defendants
Are Put on Trial.
.,iow. that C;iroi,,.

b it has helped so n, 3o.-The full
FIT. ". party OF
". B.--lYri!c % J 5.,. et .,5;ir SSshe defense
IId5Sssa l.e'' gp5s. and J. W. Mcnamara. who
are charged with murder in connection
with the explosion at Tie Los Angeles
Times building. by the national exc
cutive committee or the party now II,
(, session here.
a telegram was sent TO President T.
~. Ryan. Of the Iron Workers Union,
reading as follows:
The national executive committee
OF the Socialist party offers the entire
power OF Its 1000 organizations and
lis press consisting OF ten daiies.
over 100 wcckles and ten monthlics
in all languages. to be used in the
defense OF the McNamaras, and any
other help within our power
| ~ communication was also ad :
dressed TO the locals OF the Socialist
party. condemning the arrest Of the
! men as Suggesting a deliberate plot
claiming the prosecution or the men
was inspired by the National Manu-
facturers' Association" and that the
whole affair was "a. ida stardly con-
tfpiraey on the part of organized cap
tital In this country to. crush organized
labor by crime and Violence"
The Communication calls upon the
locals 10 raise money for the defense
of the accused and for carrying on
of an aggressive campaign for so.
cialism in California. and particular
ly In Los Angeles.
Among the members of the national
executive committee in session here
is Congressman Victor l.. Berger, of
Milwaukee,.
VIII Raise nefenne Fund.
indiana roiis,f Ind; April 30
Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation of Labor, arr
rived to-day and Immediately went
Into secret conference with forty labor
leaders OF national and State organ
izations. After the conference Mr..
discussed and that the executive
| council OF the American Federation OF
Labor. would take charge of defense
fund, which would be raised by con-
tributions from the various labor or
CARNATIONS of the country
a meeting of the executive council
is to be called soon by Mr.. Gompers.
who said the session probably would
| be held here.
Later Mr. Gompers discussed the
case. saying:
o "Hoie tHihG is q deprecated
! frame-up 1t is an outrage. and The
American Federation of Labor viii
leave nothing undone in defending the
men now imprisoned in Los Angeles.
| No means Will be spared in defending
| our men leGany.
we purpose also to press the Kid
mapping charge to the fullest extent
Mcnamara was secretly taken from
this State without an opportunity of a
hearing And l am not sure that he
may not be brought back to Indiana
Tor tTial. The American Federation of
LABOR purposes to go to the bottom
suner the consequences
AT the conference this afternoon q
was the consensus that the exeu
i've council OF the American
Federation of Labor should take COM
plete charge of the cases, in the rails
ing of funds, the employment of coun.
sci. in fact, everything In connectIon
with the trial."
Besides the local la Dor mon pres
ent, William j. Spencer, secretary Of
the building trades. depa rtment OF the
federation, and Frank L. Mulholland,
| of Toledo, attended. Mr. Mulbolland
is en- attorney for the national orgam.
| ization and probably will be one of
the lawyers chosen for the defense
OF the three labor men now in iail in
Los Angeles. In connection with the
explosion in the Los Angeles Times
building
Detective Burns, who brought about
the arrest of the three men, is Still IN
| indianapolis. seeking evidence against
the men. He said there were no de-
velopments to-day. and that he ex.
pected to start for Los Angeles to-
| morrow.
Propose General Strike.
st. Louis, April addressing a
meeting of laboring men in union
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