The Connecticut labor press., 1920-10-02
LABOR RESENTS
 ANIMATION OF
 BOMB COMPLICITY
Objects to New York Tragedy Be ing Used to Support oppres-
 sive Legislation. :,
lJPHOLDS JUST LAWS
Will Gladly Co-0perate to Check Any Unlawful Effort to Over
 throw Government.
By CHARLES M. KELLEY. 1.

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 Public opinion can be depended upon to deal swiftly and effectively with any group that seeks by terrorism and yio- fence to disturb the established order. There is no revolutionary sentiment in this country and very IsH sltuipH- aries, and Attorney General Palmer, who has given practically all his atten- stion to the eradication of extremists, has admitted so much
 And the same public opinion will ex- ecrate any attempt upon the part of de- tectiye agencies to capitalize an unex- plained explosion in New York to their own benefit and to the great detriment of thousands of men and women who are sincerely striving through constitu- tional methods to establish more decent social and industrial conditions.
 The terrible disaster Ia Wall Street remains unexplained. 1here Isr practi- cal1y no evidence, and 1ione worthy of credence, thai 1t was deliberately plan ned and executed by anarchists. News papers seeking the sensational have manufactured a great deal of material that seemingly bears Out. the al1ega- tions of private detective agencies that this explosion was criminal conspir- acy. But analysis of al these conflict ing publications conf generally held opinion that gross careiessness on the part of the ofhcai1s Of New York in permitting high Explosives to be carried through the streets of that city is alone to blame for tfle loss of many lives and the injury of many citizens
 It is disquieting, to say the least, that the attorney general and the haters and baiters of labor have seized their hor- rible incident "a basis for the renewal of propaganda favorilg the enactment of more rigid and oppressive leglslatoln aimed at the workers Of the nation. For 1t must be clear to- all who have follow
 ed the various moves Of the red, hunt CTS that the inspifationsof their activities is desire to check the rising. tides of progressivism if1 the ranks of the work CTS,
 The workers will as who1e-heartedly as the capitalist join in with any pro-
 gram that seeks to check any unlawful effort to, overthrow the government The American labor movement IS not "red.' 1t Is not Feven a faint pink. Ii is sane and poised Many well-rnean- ing citizens may hold 9 contrary opin- | ion. but that issbecause they have beer | Dreiudiced and. misinformed. Private | detective agencies that hire out theif trained gl1n-rnen, the under-cover mer of large corporations and agents of the department of justice have combined te discredit and injure the workers and al l the same time prepare the public tor the acceptance of legislation that IS repug,
 nant to the genius of our institutions and would be instantly rejected by ever.
 right thinking American i'll his sober I senses.
 Attorney General Palmer has capital l.ized the New York explosion as vindi | cation of his demand for new legisla- l ton, and hes can be expected to presen to Congress when 1t reconyenes, the III | iouitous bills that were side-tracked a l the recent session. If 1t Is possible tt establish the impression that there IS [ | nationwide conspiracy of which ths New York incident was the first mani l festation, 1t will be a comparativel. | easy matter to persuade the reactionar, majority of the House and Senate te accept without protest bills that art l aimed incidentally at terrorists, bu l chiefly at workers who are pursuing 1 lawful rnetf ods in behalf of the toilins I masses.
 I ii there was crime in the diseaster
 the guilty should be promptly detected and punished But those entrusted witt
 the enforcement of law and detection o criminals seemingly are more concerned
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