The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-12-06
INION LtBOR'S SOFFTCIAL WORD.
HAS suffered Temporarily. hut Has Not
Been Beaten.

ISpIASAPoLGS. Dec The executive
officers Of the national labor organizations
that hav" headquarters in this city met
to-day A. the call Of James VI Lynch.
president of the International Typo
graphical Union. and issued "A long state
ment in relation I" tho Mcnamara dyna-
hitting case.
The statement declares that the mem
hers Of the conference are assembled "to
express condemnation Of crime and vio-
lence, whether developing in trade unions.
in commercial enterprises or in the CON
duct Of daily newspapers. and sayS that
they believed John J Mcnamara was tho
victim Of as foul a conspiracy as was ever
hatChed that that belief was fostered.
matured and grew into conviction largely
because Of the manner IN which McNa-
mara was spirited from Indianapolis and
hurried To city hostile To organized
labor. and that the Judge Of the police
court, the Mayor Of the city and m" Gov
ernor of the State lent their aid Ia il in
violation Of law.
The crime to which the McNamaras
have pleaded guilty is declared to be-
heinouS and revolving, but It is said that
organized labor came TO their defence IN
the light of these circumstances and
did only their duty as conditions then
existed. The statement closes thus:
Despite the shrieking. the hostile
press, despite the insane rejoicings Of
the enemies Of labor and despite the
great addition that has been imposed on
labors burden by those who are recreant
10 it's cause the full import Of this tre-
mendous development in the relations
between capital and labor will finally
assert itself and the criminals who cannot
be reached hy law will not go unwhipped
Of IN" scorn Of public opinion.
"To the millions Of trade IN ionists
throughout the continent we convey this
message: II cannot be denied that labor
in its organized and unorganized form
has suffered temporarily. but as II has re.
covered from many reverses, as il has
arisen after many defeats. SO will il rise
again, more powerful compact and de-
termlned Tor i's cause IL just and its meth
DDS are correct. The storm Of villifCatiOn
AT present raging Will Subsde and in the
clear sunlight ot better day the causes
and the reasons and the impelllng motives
that have brought about the most re-
grettable events to which we make refer
ence will be Understood of all men. and
those moral criminals. those criminals of
the literary engines Of destruction used
10y them at every opportunity at their
command, will stand forth stripped of
their Sleeps clothing and will he held m
in their true colors TO the gaze Of all man
kind
TO those critics who have 40 avidly
accepted this opportunity To rail against
the officers of the trades union NOV emenL,
we again say. as We said on May 10: We
are thankful to our critics for their good
advice. but we believe we know ourbusi-
ness, and we propose to conduct ourselves
in accordance with the dictates of our
hest Judgment, The trade unions of this
country, not the present critics Of the
trade union movement, have built up
that movement to the tremendous force
that il is to-day. A. representatives of
that movement, We believe We under
stand it, aims and its aspirations. We
believe We understand the desires of its
members and we will endeavor To make
these aims aspirations and desires effec-
tive through the channels that we select"