The bee., 1912-12-31

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In the name OF organized labor. ]
| will not believe that organized labor
lapproves of such practices.
i IAN organization that approves
and adopts the methods of these de-
PENDANTS is an outlaw and will
meet the fate which outlaws have
met since civilized society began. /.
"The evidence shows some OF these
defendants to be guilty of murder,
but they are not charged with that
crime, and this court cannot punish
them for 1t, nor should IL be infiuenc-
ea by such consideration in fixing
the measure of punishment for tile
crimes charged.
ITS SEVERITY.
| "Ihe certainty Of punishment, not
It's severity, is the important con-
alteration in the administration q
criminal justice. Such punishment
should be meted out as shall warn
others that even if they desire to ac-
complish lawful ends they must not
Violate the law in the attempt to
realize them. Keeping the con-
alterations in view, the court must
repress that Indignation which
every lsw-abiding citizen naturally
feels at the crimes which the evil
dence in this case discloses in ad-
dition to those for which the de.
PENDANTS have been found guilty,
and as near as may be possible. con-
fine the punis hment within it's
proper scope.
Referring to the Iron Workers
strike which began in 1906 and
which the government charged was
the motive which prompted John J..
McNamara to use dynamite as
weapon, Judge Anderson said the
strike was attended by picketing,
then by sluggings and riots. He ad-
ded.
"But In 1905 a campaign by dyna-
mite was inaugurated and beginning
with explosions in the East and ex-
tending from the Atlantic to the
Pacific continued until the arrest of
the McNamaras and McManigal In
April, 1912. The evidence in this
case shows that almost 100 explo-
-sstns damaging and destroying
structures in process of erection by
and machinery Of, open shop con-
Germs took place eliminating on the
fist day Of October 1910, ia the des-
truction of the Los Angeles Times
Building and the murder of twenty
one people. Every one of these ex-
plosions was upon the work of5open
shop concerns, and no explosisn Is
shown TO have taken place upon any
closed shop job. Since the arrest
of the MeNomaras and McManigal
these explosions have ceased.
REIGN OF TERROR.
"This system OF destruction was
not carried onfor revenge or in ODE.
dienee to any other human passion,
but for the deliberate purpose by
veritaole reign of terror, to enforce
compliance with the demands OF
the iron workers upon the open and
closed shop question.
Tveitmoe the Clancy Of San Fran
cisco and Munsey of Salt Lake CITY
were repeatedly charged by the Dis
trict Attorney during the trial with
nj
than those upon which they were
being tried.
Tveitmoe the man who paid the |
dynamiters for work on the Pacific |
Coast who asked for more explosions
even after the twenty-one persons
were killed, ought not to be here on |
trial for dynamiting. He ought TO |
be out there on the coast on trial for |
murder" was one of District Attor-
ner Miller's statements In the court |
records. $50 ought CLANCY, and so |
ought Munsey, the man who for
two weeks harbored James b. Nc
Namara IN Salt Lake City. These
men ought to be in San Quentin
prison In California along with the
McNamaras right now."
MOTIONS ovERRULED
Judge Anderson Then Proceeds to Question
Prisoners.
BY Associated Press -
Indianapolis, Ind. Dec, 30.-All
motions for new trials for the thirty
eight labor union officials convicted
in the dynamite consparicy cases to-
day were nverruled by Federal
Judge Albert b. Anderson. M
Motions for arrest of judgment In
behalf of the men also were over
ruled.
Fine Record Made By Darlington Metho.
dists In Rev. Brandon's Last Year.