The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-01-09
GOMPERS PLEADS
IF0R DYNAM|TERs
Says Violence Was Reply to ''ln-
justice and Tyranny"
HITS RULE BY INJUNCTION
Labor Leader Attacks Presiding Judge
of Bomb Trial in Address Be-
fore U. S. Senate Com
mittee.

Washington, Jan 7.-Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, speaking before the
favor of the Clayton anti-injunction
and contempt bills, gave answer to
criticisms aimed at the organization
Of workers which he heads because Of
the trial and conviction for dynamit-
ing of officers of the structural iron
workers union.
If ever the time shall come" said
Mr. Gompers in the climax of his ad.
dress, when government by dynamite
shall be attempted land let us. hope
and work that it never shall Gomez. it
will have as it's main cause the theory
and policy upon which is based gov
eminent by njunction-personal gov
eminent foisted upon our people in
stead of government by law"
Not to Repudiate Union.
Though all censure those whom
men may deem guilty of a dynamite
conspiracy the federation leader con-
tinued. none feels the terrible con-
sequences of the indianapolis trial
more keenly than the men of organ
lied labor. There have been added
heartache and sorrow to our heavy
burdens. The men accused and SEN
fenced cannot suffer the penalties
alone-upon them and all workingmen
fall the suffering and penalty.
But what of the conspiracy Of or
ganized capitalize Conspiracy to
murder the liberty of the toilers, to
tear from them the means of protec-
ton by which they have bettered their
condition, to leave them bare and de-
fenseless in the competitive struggle?
Is not such conspiracy sufficiently
dastardly to incur some odium?
Should the conspirators. with their
hands stained with life blood of mems
ambition. happiness. liberty, be &C
corded nothing but honor, power, re-
spectability? Should they be allowed
to continue to manipulate the powers
Of government. the administration Of
justice until the oppressed find the
burden intolerable?
Refers to Judge at Trial.
More wise it is to seek social JUS
tice while yet we may. The judge
who presided at the trial realized one
of the government by injunc-
ton, lawless, autocratic, irresponsible
exercise of governmental authority.
according privileges to the strong and
denying justice to the weak"
Judge Anderson, who presided over
the trial of the ironworkers, was re-
ferred to particularly by Mr.. Gompers.
when he declared that "our whole So
cial organization seems to be on
trial"
Even the judge who tried the case.
smugly assured Of personal irrespon-
siblity," Mr. Gompers said. "fatuous-
ly declared that the evidence in this
case will convince any impartial per-
son that government by injunction Is
infinitely to be preferred to govern
ment by dynamite
"The worthy Judge had blindly
CHANGED upon one of the causes, but
had failed to realize casual relation
conventional epigram-he does not
know that there is a law OF life just
as immutable as the law Of gravita-
ton; of attraction and repulsion, a
law of life which meets tyranny and
injustice by resistance. The inapt-
ness. aye, the unwarrantable charac-
ter, of this utterance OF the judge DIS
closes how far afield outside the case
he went to take another slap at
labor"
Defends Federation of Labor.
Mr. Gompers defended the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor as force for
the betterment Of conditions and re-
sented the attacks made upon it since
the beginning of the dynamiters' case.