NEWS BY CABLE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 152, 23 December 1911, Page 9 (Supplement)

NEWS BY CABLE.

LABOR INDIGNATION. BREAKAWAY Ob' CANADIAN UNIONS. (From the Australian Press). Toronto, December 14. Tlir Labor men of Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal arc. threatening to break away from the International Unions as a result of the McNainaras' confession. One of their complaints is that despite the fact that thousands of pounds have been sent for the defence fund, all the leading officers of the union live in the United States. There is a growing feeling of diiscontent among the Canadian workers over this outside control. The Canadian unions, it is stated, will make an attempt to recover the money that lias been sent for the .McNamaras' defence.

One leader said: "I predict a complete break with the American unions inside a year." Washington, December 14. Ait a special session of the American Labor Federation a vote of censure was passed branding the McNamaras as "Recreant to the gortd name and high ideals of Labor," andl expressing the satisfaction of organised labor that the culprits had been commensurately punished for their crimes. The McNamaras' ways and means committee of the Labor Federation, after a two-days' conference, issued the following statement: —"That organised labor should not either legally or morally be held responsible for the crimes of an individual member." , Labor leaders assert that they will welcome any investigation that either the State or Fedieral Courts may deem it desirable to undertake.

This statement was signed by every member of the committee except Mr. Ryan l , president of the International Bridge Ironworkers, who had returned to Indianopolis. Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of the Federation,, lias positively declared that had Mr. Ryan been able to remain he would 1 have signed the committee's statement.

Mr. Gompers said: "We who are here now, individually and collectively, declare that the first intimation of the McNamaras' guilt was conveyed to us by the press in publications containing the confessions. It is an awful commentary on existing conditions when one man among all the millions of workers can bring himself to that frame of mind that he thinks the only means to secure justice. for Labor is by violence, outrage and murder."

McNAMARA'S BOAST. "DOLLARS AND THE FEDERATION BEHIND ME." Los Angeles, December 14. Detective McLaren, a member of the W. J. Burns' force, states that James B. McXamara made the following statement while being taken on the train from. Detroit to Chicago on the night of April 12: —■ "I have got hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the American Federation of Labor at the back of me. It took only .10,01)0 dollars to clear Vincent Altaian, of Chicago, and if they couldn't convict him they can't convict me." The boast angered McManigal, and he called his companion indiscreet. This caused the first break between the two, and eventually brought about McNamnra's confession.

McMANIGAL'S CONFESSION. Los Angeles, December 14. AlcMunigal's real confession will be heard by the grand jury to-day. It is stated that, when all the information regarding the explosions has been given by McManig al, his attorney will recommend his release for services rendered. Detective McLaren, waiting outside the grand jury room yesterday, gave the representatives of the Associated Press the details of Detective Burns' shadowing of the McNamaras. The detectives traced McManigal to his home in Chicago, when lie returned from Springfield 1 , where he had blown up the municipal tower. lie had stopped en route from Indianapolis and collected 40 dollars from John McXamara for the explosion. Next day the detectives shadowed him when he placed the money in the bank, and later Burns was with him in a boot shop. The, detective followed McManigal with a, suit case to Toledo, where he again met, .Tames B. McNamara. They sat in the railway station looking over a map of Detroit. Later the pair registered at, an. hotel under assumed names.

Acting under instruction received by long-distance telephone, Hums did not arrest his qua.rry, as the Toledo police were not sympathetic.

Detective Hums rode next (lay ill the same car with McManigal and McXamara to Detroit, and arrested them at noon. McXamara made as much noise as though he were lining kidnapped. All had lo fro to the police station, where the charge was laid. On the train Burns told a guard they had two safe-blowers in charge. McXanrani, resented thisj and said, 'T have never hlown a safe in my life. You fellows want me for the Los Angeles business." McManigal, from the upper berth in the state-room, grabbed McXamara. by the hair and told him angrily that lie didn't know what lie was talking about.

The arrested men offered the detectives ."0,(1(10 dollars if allowed their freedom and ,'if> hours' start. That night McManigal told the whole story of the explosions to Detective Burns in the presence of an independent, witness. The story was valuable, as it filled in the missing clues, and continued the entries in the, hotel registers. TRAFFIC TNT EXPLOSIVES. A CALIFOIIXTAX EXQUIKY. Los Angeles. December 1-1. The grand jury has insl il.utcd an enquiry into the traffic, in dynamite and other explosives as revealed by recent disclosures in connection with the destruction of the Times building and other places. Both John McXamara and .Tames McXamara, the two men now undergoing sentences for (he disaster at the Times office, have refused to give evidence. Among the witnesses to be called will be Ortie McManigal, who some time ago made a, confession regarding a number of dynamite outrages. Mam- of the OaliFornian labor leaders are en paying counsel to represent them at Ilm enquiry, as they have reason to believe that indictments will be tiled against tlieni. AUFTIICAX DYKAMTTTC PLOTS. Washington. December IS. Mr. Samuel fiompers. president of the American Labor Federation, says he challenges the world to show that organised labor had any hand in the, destruction of the Los Angeles Times office, or in any oilier dynamite outrages. "Unionism will progress," declares Mr. Hompers, "despite its enemies. Whatever lengths they go to, the enemies of the working people cannot injure the cause of Labor."