The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-01-06
Capital Is Blamed by Presi-
dent GomperS of A. F. L.
for Causes Resulting in
Dynamite Case.
SOCIAL JUSTICE A
GREAT NEED TODAY
Government by Dynamite
Can Be Expected as Long
as Government by lnjunc-
ton Is Permitted.
tNational News Association

(Nlttonal News ASSociatl0n1
WASHINGTON. Jan. s.-Govern-
ment by dynamite. if it ever becomes!
reality. will be the direct result OF
government by Injunction. according
to President Samuel Gompers of the
appeared today before the senate judi
ciary committee TO defend the Clayton
anti-injunction bill and incidentally to
comment on the decision. whereby 80
structural ironworkers were convicted
of shipping dynamite for unlawful pur-
poses.
Mr.. Gompers assailed the PARTISAN
ship of the judge in Indianapolis. be-
! fore whom the dynamite conspirators
were convicted, and argued that even
if they Were guilty they had justifica-
tion in the long oppression which they
had suffered at the hands of organized
capital.
| Must Meet Charges.
I'm commenting upon the bill before
your committee / would call attention
TO the case concluded in its first stage
at least, in which men of a great labor
organization were found guilty of ship
ping dynamite through the states. 7
find ii necessary TO meet the charges
made because Of the insinuation which
has been hurled at organized labor"
After defending the American Fed
Grafton of Labor as force for better
ment of conditions President Gompers
resented the attack made on IL since
the beginning of the dynamiters case.
Though all censure those whom
men may deem guilty or dynamite con-
ispiracy none feel the terrible conse-
quences of the indianapolis trial more
than men OF organized labor There
have been added heartache and sorrow
TO our already heavy burden. The men
accused and sentenced cannot suffer
alone-upon them and all laboring
men fall the suffering and penalty. 4
But what of the conspiracy OF or
ganized capital? The conspiracy 10
murder the liberty of the toflers. to
tear from them the means Of protec-
ton by which they have bettered their
conditions. to leave them bare and de-
fenseless in the competitive struggle.
Capitals Conspiracy.
"Is not such a conspiracy sufficiently
dastardly to incur some odium!
SHOULD oonspirators with their
; hands stained with life blood of mems
,, ambitions, happiness. liberty be accor-
ded nothing but honor. power and res
pectability? ...- ..+ a-r - Z
! Should they be allowed to continue
TO manipulate the powers of govern
ment, the administration of justice un-
til the oppressed find the burden intol-
erable?
More wise il is to seek social jus
tice while yet We may. The Judge who
presided at the trial realized one OF
the issues-government by injunction.
|, lawless. autocratic responsible exer-
else of governmental authority, accord
ing privileges to the strong and deny
ing justice TO the weak
Plot Against Labor.
For six years all of the forces OF
organized society have been used
against the men through organized
business interests brought together to
destroy the organization of labor. You
say these men use elemental and bru-
tai methods. Were the manufacturers
less brutal in their methods toward
their employees? The Judge who SEN
fenced these union men declared that
government by. Injunction is better
than government by dynamite. The
worthy Judge in his blindness refused
2 to see the truth, and the unwarranted
, character of his remarks shows how
far aficld he went 10 take another slap
at organized labor Assuming for the
sake of argument that these men were
> guilty of the crime with which they
were charged. is IL not evident that
government by dynamite is the result
of government by Injunction?
These monster corporations engag-
!, ed in death grinding tactics have fore
ed the union men to use some methods
: of defense. And who would expect
> that in the face of such attack that
some method of defense would not be
| resorted to-"
President Gompers then read reso-
luton adopted by the L.. s. Steel Cor
lporation, in which that company ex-
pressed itself opposed TO the extension
!, of organized labor
| Gompers attacked Detective Burns
and challenged him to produce any ev-
e idence to support his assertion that
/ his trails in the dynamite conspiracy
/ led 10 the Federation of Labor.