The Washington times., 1913-01-06
.GOMPERS VENTS
Walls Of WRATH
!. ON CAPITALISTS
Defends Motives Which
Force Men to Resort to
Dynamiting.
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| been waged by the steel construction
! companies.
Il would have you ponder" he said,
how it is said among people processing
to believe in the brotherhood of man and
| the gospel of love-men and American
citizens come to look upon violence and
dynamite terror as the only defense left
them against the constituencies tyranny
Of those controlling hours. wages. condi-
tons Of work. That is terrible charge
against society.
Counsellors of Harshness.
AS to those who counsel harshness
| and deny mercy, are they the men who
have fought the fight of the world of
| men and conquered without blemish to
| themselves? Are they men who know
the world of work and toll. who have
Alt or know the powers pitted against
the weaker elements, who have felt the
| cruelty and heartlessness of the world
| of profits where men succeed by climb
! ing over and standing upon those they
have struck down and defeated? Do
these self-appointed censors. so positive
! and assured of their own virtue that
| they hesitate not to Judge fellow-men,
J really know this world of toll and
| fight?"
Bitterly reviewing the trial of the
dynamite oonspirators at Indianapolis,
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his alleged partiaIity shown the prosecu-
sentencing the defendants and in in
structing the jury.
Leader Grows Angry.
Regardless of Judge Anderson's as
sumption of impartiality." Gompers
said angrily, "in declaring that the trial
of the dynamiters was not the trial of
organized labor the harpies who would
snatch Industrial liberty from the hands
of the toilers took advantage of this
sentiment they had created, and, filled
with renewed sense of virtue, again be-
gan the cry against those higher up.'"
Quoting Harrison Grey Otis, owner
of the Times, whose building was
dynamited by the Mcnamara brothers,
Gompers dubbed him contemptuously
Common Scold-"
tack" he said,'' referring to Otis's edi-
torial expressing the hope that those
higher up would be caught, lis char
acteristic of the man who owns and
controls the policy of great metropo-
Titan newspaper. With all the power
nation, and the accompanying power
of molding public opinion, how can the
workers get square deal? The press,
the telegraph, the telephone, the cable
all, are under corporation control, and
are used against the workers in their
struggle for industrial betterment."
After sarcastically referring to Detec-
2tive William ]. Burns as the "redoubt-
able detective" and quoting from a
speech of John Kirby. jr., president of
the National Manufacturers Associa-
ton, IN which he expresses the hope
that the "hisher-ups'' will be caught,
Gompers uttered this def:
Challenges His Enemies.
Il have challenged and now challenge
any of our enemies, to show where
there has been any unlawful conduct or
connection. direct or remote, with any
violence in connection with any labor
controversy or otherwise
Though threats assail u.s." he con-
tinued, though detectives may hound
us. though charges and insinuations be
hurled at us from all sides. yet will We
of those who do the worlds work and
their blood and bodies, yea, verify, with
their very SOULS q.
Charges "Frame Up"
Producing correspondence and docu-
ments obtained through President Taft,
as his authority, Gompers accused De-
tective Burns of framing up evidence
in certain land fraud cases In Oregon.