Los Angeles Outrage.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 43, 5 January 1912, Page 6

Los Angeles Outrage.

Crime Confessed to by the McNamara Brothers. STRANGE CHAPTER OF AMERICAN HISTORY. The unexpected has happened. The brothers McNamara, arrested and impeached on a charge of blowing up the premises of the Los Angeles "Times," have confessed to the crime, and created consternation in the ranks of organised Labor in America. Until that dramatic announcement was mad-e, Labor throughout the world was prepared to believe in the innocence of the McNamaraSj who hare now been denounced by the American Federation of Labor as recreants to the cause. After the Bcnsation.nl ending of the trial, Mr. Darrow, counsel for accused, said:— "I have saved human life, I hope, for I do not believe the judge will sentence them to death. For six months I have carried a terrific burden. I sought every loophole, and tried my best to grope my way out of the maze. "But two woeks ago I discovered that the State had irrefutable evidence. James will tell all the facts later. The prosecution had a dead open-and-shut case." James 13. McNamara pled guilty to the specific charge of murder in connection with the dynamiting of the

"Times" office, and John J. McNamaia confessed to the destruction of Llewellyn's iron works. The day after the crime was committed, Samuel Gompcrs, president of the American Federation of Labor, said: "Labor docs not stand for such outrages, nor contemplate su-h a crime. I cannot beliero that a union man lias done it, and I deeply hope no one who is connected with tho Labor movement will be found to have dene it. It is inconceivable, that a union man should have done this thing. And yet, if it is found tViat a union man has done it. unionists cannot be blarnfd by fairminded men for the deed of a man devoid of any human feeling, as the perpetrator of (his horrible catastrophe must have been. !t was the swt of a madman. No one with an ounce of sympathy in his make-up could do aught hut contemplate, such a crime with the diepi.st abhorrence." The "'hSiU-Mial facts surrounding the arrest ;>i.d 1ii.,1 oi the men, who, by thei r-oui! u<re adjudged guilty <1 the iniuo. are well knownAfter s< Iμ, ,!.■!•,■ d< d;.nng his innocence to the Hr< t'.icrbi-od di Organised Labor. Jamo J I\'e\art,;.ra pied guilty to a charge- < 1 u:i:vd< r. That fact alone brands L;;i. as ;. liar, a traitor and a coward. TImU <u;-o (f a ;imii:.r nature have been p< i}j'.r;, !.<-d by the agents ol i- ;i, lint." Hut nasuier. legal or illegal, is cue of thf aits ol capitalism. Ai:d 11. lll"ci! 1- t n< ' s ! - S, -' t0 IIUU '" der. A t)i(i.,". ];i' fn iriUi-d 1-y the "Ir-.tor-initK nal S<■< :nlis!," that thf <'(!iife!=s'it.i. hi! , -' i-'ei, uiniig hem the coiide'.iined n:eii Ulider |M( !i.!M> ol jurdoil, if not Wi.Tiannd ly ;. ]-e;i--.ov.i':l ! < , ; i'-r: ol thi' fa< Is. !iU!oV<i,t men ivtiilii never have vi-iili ■■>ed tb'ir j,'iiilt—rave, perhap-. liiider torture, and the McNfniifiCiis \v<'i-i. xoi sul'..ieet-e<l to tor'ure. Tlw" Lid orgiii-i-ai Lal.<'i' beliind '.hcni. aiufilien trml w<.ul<l bay, , l'.:n fought to the I it 1"i < n<l .hiid *iicy tendered a plea, ci n<4 gu.lty. Put m.T'M i< mi . wh'-fh mr.kes cowards c,f us all. wnii! ; " tb*- <-<iiii<'f-sion of guilt from these. ioi.thns. They wok- t!:<j '.voif-t ebi-mns ol Labor, the rolU ijuci-'s in the bones of a mighty and jusl ciinw. w'lii-li has done well to repndinte then. dish aits and crafts of a dii.lM.lii-nl ■;aiutalism which seeks to Jiill b<,tii (In Udies juid .souls of men