Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-12-28

will act as blighting curse on the
organized labor movement for many
years to come" I'VE have been badly
buncoed," exclaims Albert Hilbert. of
FAN River. Mass, secretary of the
United Textile Workers Union of
America "rhe fact that we OCCASION
ally find iiend incarnate wearing the
badge of union labor" remarks j. J.
Jones, vice-president of the California
Federation of Shopmen, does not in
dictate In the least that organized lab
or stands for violence" John J. Nc
Namara may be thankful for getting
off with fifteen years. He ought to go
up for life, at least" declares Charles
IL. Meyer, president of the Western
Federation of Miners. who figured as
u principal, and was acquitted. in the
famous and somewhat similar Meyer
| Haywood, Pettibone case. To an In
terviewer in Denver Mr.. Meyer goes
on to say of the Los Angeles case:
Organized labor was not on trial
but was only defending men who had
declared their innocence to the world
If the McNamaras deceived the great
family of wasc-workers who believed
labor can not be held responsible
"If capital punishment we're ever
justified, It would be In this case" af-
firms John Williams, national presi-
dent of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron. Steel, and Tin Workers-an
organization quite separate and dis
tinct from the Structural Steel and
Bridge Workers Union. OF which John
J. Mcnamara was secretary-treasurer
Both organizations, however, are mem
bcrs of the American Federation OF
Labor. Traitors to labor" is an ep-
tibet hurled at the brothers from in
Vulnerable labor-union sources. Vie
| tor Berger, Socialist member of Con-
gress. describes the Mcnamara con
| fession as "the greatest blow that has
ever come to the Gompers- Mitchell
school of unionism." He goes on to
say:
"'rhis school never wanted to abol
ish capitalism and To introduce Social
ism. All the pure and simpler wants
| IL to add n few cents to the workers
wages. and not hoping much from the
ballot and independent political ac
ton, the desperate character readil,
turns to desperate acts.
| This case will teach the pure ant
| simplers that the ballot Is iniinitei,
more powerful than the dynamite
bomb"
Mr.. Dcbs goes further and lays
much of the responsibility for the Nc
Namaras' crimes specifically at thu
door OF such capitalists as Genera
Otis and the members of the, Mer
chants and Manufacturers Associa
ton. "who waged with such fierce hat
red the war of determination upon or
gani2ed labor" Violence" says A
NJ. Smons, editor of THE Coming Ma
ton" (SociaiisD, "is n logical resul
of an attempt to wage the class strug
gle without the ballot" Fred ID. War
rem, editor of THE Appeal to Reason
(SocialisU, asserts that had the Nc
Namara brothers understood the phil
osophy of Socialism they would neve
have resorted to deeds of violence II
the hope of beneilting the oppressed
poor"
The effect upon Mr.. Gompers ant
the American Federation of Labor u
the subject of much interesting spec
ulation ut means the end OF TIT
American Federation OF Labor, or, a
any rate, complete revolution with
In the organization. and the Waterlo
of Gompers." declares Dr. George II
/, Lunn, Socialist Mayor-elect of Sche
nnctady. To organized labor as
: ..,., l.,..,,., la thinks thut II will