Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27
John ]. Mcnamara Sends
Message To All Comrades
keep Up Education and Agitation
Until Workers Are
Emancipated."
STILL ToRTuRING WIFE
OF oRTlE M'MANlGLE
Public Opinion Swinging to Defense
since Detectives Torture
Woman.

Los Angeles, Cal. July 27.-John J.
McNamara sends the following greet
ing through the National Socialist
Pres to the workers who are so deep
ly interested in his welfare and the
progress of the battle on the Pacific
Coast:
"Give a word of greeting to my com
rades in the field. Tell them am
never for moment unmindful of
their kindly interests, their efforts
and their good work. We are all fight
ing for our cause, each in his own
place. At present my place is not
the most pleasant, but know that
much good is to come out of this by
knitting the working class together.
1t is through solidarity that Labor
will win it's battles and come into its
own.
"Tell my brothers to keep up the
work of education, and agitation to
the end that our struggle will result
in emancipation of the workers. Keep
something doing all the time and we
will win in the end"
John ]. Mcnamara looks strong and
robuse. Despite the fact he takes
daily exercise and works to keep in
trim, he and his brother James are
gaining in flesh and are philosophical
ly making the best Of their surround
ings in the county jail.
81 have scarcely written a line to-
day" said John in speaking Of the
constant stream of visitors that pour
ed into the county Jail all day to see
the Mcnamara boys. The secretary
of the Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers Union spends much Of his
time writing and devotes his spare
moments to reading and making
notes. He is closely watching every
r1ove of the attorney for the defense
and the action of the court. No de-
tail Of the proceedings is not watched
and understood by him. He explains
the finer points to his brother, Jim.
1--WE will be ready when the trial
opens and we are eager for the fray.
Tell the boys everything is going as
well as could be expected, but we
must win this fight for labor" was
the final word of the big, handsome
secretary as he turned to greet q
party of friends who had just arrived.
Clarence barrow and Lecompte
Davis of the defense, have gone to
San Francisco, and it is likely the
former will make trip to Chicago
before he returns to Los Angeles. Job
Hartman and Joseph Scott are handl-
ing the multiplicity of details in Los
Angeles and it is believed the defense
will have a much stronger case when
the time for trial arrives.
Tn failure of the district attorney
to get Mrs. Emma Mechanical put In
to Jail or to force her to testify before
the grand jury vas serious blow to
the prosecution.
The woman broke down and came
near dying in the corridor of the
courthouse on Monday, after the
ordeal of hearing the assistant prose
cutor plead to have her sent to prison
for her refusal to answer questions
propounded by the labor-hating mem-
bers of the grand jury. The judges
decision to the effect she need not
testify in cases where indictments
have already been returned, was
based on good law as well as good
judgment. -
Public sympathy took such decid-
ed swing in favor Of the defense after
the facts became public Of the tor
ture of Mrs. MECHANICAL, that the pro-
secutors became alarmed. Mrs. Nc
Manigals troubles have scarcely
ceased moment since size arrived in
Los Angeles. She was tortured into
insensibiIity IL the grand jury ante
room, then while the Frustrated wo.
man was on the way home the brutal
Burns operatives who had given her
the third, degree" contrived 10 cause
collision between their automobile
and the one in which the physician
was taking the woman 70 her home.
On Sunday night q Burns automobile
which had been following the Nc
Manigal party. ran down little Evelyn