Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-28
NOATTEMPT TO ASSASS|NATE UN|ONLABOR'
LABOR LEADER STRIKES BACK

indianapolis, lnd.-A new angle In
the McNamara case developed whom
w. J. Ford, assistant prosecuting at
torney Of Los Angeles, Walter Drew,
president of the Ereetors association,
Frank p. Fox, taxleob proprietor who
drove the machine that took John ].
McNamara away, were arrested on
warrants charging kidnapping Of the
secretary and treasurer of the struc-
tural iron workers. They furnished
bond in the sum of $1,000 zach fur
nished by w. A. ksteham Of the
Brown keteham Iron Works Of this
city. The warrants were sworn out
by John J. keeean, local labor
leader, acting for the executive board
of the International Association Of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers.
II was said that w. J. Burns would be
arrested as soon az he can be found
by officers, a warrant having been
sworn out against him.
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guided me in pointing the finger of con-
demnation at these labor leaders.
II beg the i. n. S. to accept my assur-
ance that the statement of President
Gompers of the American Federation of
Labor that picking out of these men has
been part of an attempt to 'assassinate
union labor is absolutely untrue and un-
warranted. The bare, unadorned facts
will convince all honest uion labor men
that these men are guilty and unworthy
of sympathy"
Tells Secret of Workings.
you ask me to tell the secret of the
methods by which ! and my men solved
the mystery of this succession of astound-
ing crimes after the Pinkerton agency had
worked on 1t for months without glim-
mer of success. Well. I can only say tina,
the solution of the mystery was due In
part to an intuition. After working a long
time on the Peoria, Los Angeles. Miiwau-
kee and American Bridge Co. cases. II
came to me suddenly that all of these
crimes were part Of q labor union war
against certain firms in the structural
| iron business. The establishing of the
| surprising condolences in the kind OF
nitroglycerine and dynamite used in the
! similarity of the clocks, copper wire and
other apparatus furnished other strong
clues. When scores OF my men shadowed
! the labor union suspects day and night
| for months in succession, never leaving
| them, never firing. never losing hope. al
lowing them, IL Is true, to go their way
| even when they saw them with bags and
packages of dynamite in their possession
| because they waited to get still more dam
aging evidence. The public can form nc
| idea of the immense amount of evidences
gathered against these men by my agents
who slept for scores of days and night:
at the same hotels with them. followed
| them from place to place, relieving on'
another OF course. SO not to be rec
| ognized, examining hotel registers, visit
ing dynamite and nitroglycerine plants
clock makers and wire factories, attend
| ing meetings of labor unions. keeping
watch on supposedly doomed plants. fac
tories and mills. getting specimens o
handwriting and comforting with the po
lice and with threatened manufacturer
| in many cities. Success was won b.
working and waiting. When we wer
convinced that we had not only the guilt.
men but the right kind of proof. AM
that there was no chance for them 4
escape. we made our coup. How success
full 1t was. and rich 1t was in tangible
discoveries. the events Of the last fey
days speak more eloauently than I cal
| possibly do"