Arizona republican., 1912-12-31
Judge Anderson
 Says Detendants
 Gully Of Murdey
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INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 3O-Federal
 Judge Anderson's statement about the
 trial, in which he said there was levi dence which showed that some of these defendants are guilty of murder was read by him from the bench. He said:
 Tn 1905 there was a contest between the American Bridge Co a corcern en- gagged in the erection of structural iron and the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers. of which all but two of the defendants in this case are members. ever the open and closed shop question, the bridge company having declared it's purpose
 to conduct the affairs on an open shop
 basis. In August 1905. the Information al Association declared a general strike
 against the Bridge company through
 out the United States and thls later eA-
 tended to all the open shop concerns
 in any way connected with. or allied
 with or subsidiary to the bridge com
 pany. The strike has never been settled.
 Early in the period of it's existence.
 the strike was attended with the usual
 incidents Of picketing, sugging and , rioting; but in 1906 campaign by dy-
 namite was inaugurated and beginning
 with explosions in the east and extend
 ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific. continued until the arrest of the Me
 Namaras and McManigal in April 1911.
 The evidence in this case shows that about 100 explosions, damaging and destroying structures in the process of
 erection by open shop concerns took
 place, eliminating on October 1, 1910. in the destruction of the Los Angeles
 Times building and the murder of
 twenty one people. Everyone of these explosions were upon work of open shop concerns and no explosion is
 shown to have taken place on any
 closed shop job. Since the arrest of
 the McNamaras and McManigal. the
 explosions have ceased.
 This system of destruction was not carried on for revenge or in obeyance
 to any other human passion, but for
 the deliberate purpose by veritable reign of terror. to enforce compliance with the demands of the Iron Workers upon the open and closed shop ques- tion
 "The evidence discloses an appalling list of crimes in addition to those charged in the indictments. The crimes were all committed in the name of organized labor. l do not believe that organized labor approves of such prac- tices. Any organization that approves and adopts the methods of these de- fendants is an outlaw and will meet the fate outlaws have met since civil ized society began.
 ''The evidence shows that some of these defendants are guilty of murder, but are not charged here with that i crime The court can not punish them for it. nor should it be influenced by such consideration in fixing the meas ure of punishment for the crimes | charged
 The certainty of punishment, not its severity is the important considera- tion in criminal justice. Such punish ment should be meted out as shall warn others that even if they desire to accomplish lawful ends they must not 1 violate the law in an attempt to real | iZe them.
 Keeping these considerations in view the court must repress that in dignation which every law abiding ci- tizen naturally feels at crimes which the evidence in this case discloses in | addition to those for which the de- 1 fendants been found guilty and as near 1 as may be possible, confine the pun ishment to the proper scope