The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-12-05
THE LOS ANGELES CRIME.

hitter war between Gen. Harrison
Gray Otis, editor Of &c Los Angeles
Times, and tie labor unions. He has
led the fight against the unions and
was the moving spirit Of the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
fion which prevented the unions hav-
ing the same foot hold in Los An
geles they have in nearly every
other like city. Naturally this
success Of General Otis de-
priyed the union men OF what
they regarded as essential to their sue
cess. They persuaded Mr.. Hearst
some years ago to start q paper in
Los Angeles to fight the battle for the
recognition Of union labor. During all
The years Of the contest bitterness grew
and, as General Otis was the winner,
Ghe labor forces became resentful and
felt that he had induced the heavy
hand OF capital to deny them the
rights they enjoyed elsewhere. This
resentment bred anarchy in the hearts
ct the McNamaras. Losing out in the
fight against their opponents, in
famed by passion and blinded by the
sting OF defeat, these men thought to
win by assassination and arson what
they could not win in peaceable ways.
Their horrible crime shocked the ma
ton, and the authorities properly en-
ployed the best detective force to find
the guilty parties. Never in history
Tot even in the realm Of Sherlock
Holmes-did detectives work SO well
and, in the face OF what seemed in
surmountabEe obstacles. the detectives
found the evidence SO plain that the
guilty parties found That they could not
escape conviction, and made q con-
9ession in the hope OF saving their
Eecks. It seems, By reading between
the lines, that while no agreement has
been made h sentences will be life
imprisonment for n and fourteen
gears for another. The labor unions,
which believed them innocent and
were making sacrifices to help them
IN what the unions regarded a fight
en principle, are demanding that the
death sentence be passed on both OF
the guilty men. It is not probable that
this will be done, but it shows that
many honest labor men are indignant
because by lies they have been put in
the position Of supporting wholesale
gnurderers and anarchists.
Labor unions are often t%yrannous
and SO is capital. When capital has
the upper hand it sometimes Expresses
men in it's power. When labor has the
upper hand it is sometimes most I'M
Just and d~ictatorial.
30, it is excellent to have tnc strength
Of & giant.
It is tyrannous to use it as q giant"
General Otis regarded labor unions as
aictatorial and resented their de-
snands. He determined to defeat them
In Los Angeles. LaW-aDiding labor
men sought to recure recognition. but
when they failed they did not become
anarchists. Gen. Otis had fought their
position in a legal manner and While
resentment toward aim was natural.
the viciousness that caused these men
TO destroy his property and murder
tWenty-one men to get even was the
basest crime in the annals Of the coun-
try. That the authorities and detec-
tives were able to ferret out the cr1Tl1-
nails and insure their conviction IS q
triumph for Justice that should rejoice
every good man in America. IL sucn
g wholesale and helltsh crime couio
nave escaped detection and punish
Enent, other ~assassins, and eonsplra-
tors and murderers would have peen
encouraged to use the boHb TO destroy
property Of men who would not yleic
to their demands. The result In the
Mcnamara case will be a warning tc