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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1911)
TITE MORXIXtf OREGOSIAH. itkiuat, UKUJKJIUKK 8, 1911, h LABOR Smart, man-tailored suits in juniors sizes are selling at half price ORIGINAL CONFESSOR. WHOSE TESTIMONY IS NOW MAIN RELIANCE Or PROSECUTION IN COMING FEDERAL PROBE. Acts of McMamaras and of Detectives Who "Kidnaped" Them Denounced. FEDERATION con us cuts V BURNS IS ALSO CRITCISED rt that they I f liratlon which I urta mar un- I I Apart From Spirit of Humantarlan- Hm. Statement 6a;a Iollcy Forbid Adoption of Violent Method. WASHINGTON. IVc 7. Branding: mu H and John J. McNamara ' aa "recreant to tha ood name and high Ideala of labor." and expreaslng- tha aatlafartlon of onranlsed labor that tha "mlortta bara been commeneurately nuntahad for their Crimea. tha Mc Namara wijri and meana committee of tha American Federation or LaKor. ait er a two dara' conference, laaued atatament today la;oroualy condemn Inr the MrNimtnl for "their lnhu manlty." and declaring that organised labor ahould not be held "either leiral It -or morally reaponalbla for the rrimea of an Individual member.' Tha labor leadera aaae "will welcome any Inveatlira either Federal or atate Co dertake " The atatement la aliened by every member of tha McNamara committee, except F. M. Ryan, preeldent of tha In ternational Aaaoclatton or nrKige ana Structural Iron Worhera, of which J. J. McNamara wn eecretary. Mr. Ryan returned to IndlanapoUa today. Ueapen Jtaeaka far Ryan. "Had he remained, however." Bald President Oomoera. Doattlvelr. "I sure Mr. Ryan would have affixed hla name. He waa called back to Indlan- aoolla br pressure of business. He did not aee the atatement. but I ant aura ha la in hearty accord with Ita sentl menta." As to their knowledge of tha crime to which tha MN'amara confesaed. the committee. In their atatement. assert: -We here and now. individually and collectively, declare that the first knowledge or intimation of their frullt hi conveyed by the presa In their confessions of Kullt. "From the outset we assured all con trlbutors and the public generally that we would make an accounting of the moneys received and to whom paid. A report in full will be made first to tha executive council of the American red eratlon of Labor at Ita meeting to be Held at wasningion. January . in I .a bar Maveasrat Nat Reepraatale. Further than thla Mr. Gompers would Mr nothing In regard to tha defense fund money. "Organised labor of America." tha statement continues, "has no desire to cordons the crimes of tha McNamaraa. It Joins In the satisfaction that the ma JMv of the law has been maintained and that the culprits commeneurately were punished for their Crimea. partly condoning tha crime of tha McNamaras. however, the statement says In the following breath: "... and yet It is an awful com nientary upon tha existing conditions when one man among all tha million! of workers ran bring himself to tha frame of mind that the only means to secure Justice for labor la In violence. outrage and murder. "It Is cruelly unjust to hold the men of the labor movement either legally or morally responsible for tha Crimea of an Individual member. No such moral code or leral responsibility Is placed upon anv other association of men In our country. lavewttsratta la Weleasaed. "In ao far aa wa have the right to peak In tha name of organised labor. we welcome any Investigation which either Federal or state courts may undertake. The aesslona of the Ameri can Federation of Labor are held with open doors that rn.ll may hear and sea what la being aald and done. Tha books. accounta and correspondence of th Federation are open to any competent authority who may desire to make study or an Investigation of them. "The men of organised labor. In com mon with all our people." the committee affirms, "are grieved beyond expression In words at the losa of Ufa and tha de struction of property, not only in the rasa under discussion, but under any rase which may have occurred. We are, however, humiliated to think that any man connected with the labor mov ment should have been guilty of either. The lesson this grave crime teaches. however, will have Ita salutory effect. It will demonstrate now mora than ever the Inhumanity, aa well as tha futility of resorting to violence In the effort to right wrongs or to attain lights.' "Kldaaalac" la Cradeeaae. While not defending tha crime of the Mr.Vimiri). tha committee de nounced the "kidnaping" of the Mo Namaraa. who. they say. were ar rested in Russian style, not Ameri can." The method of arrest they find Mgn-naoded Irregularity and tyran nicaJ lawlessness." and W. J. Burns, the defective In tba caae. Is severely criticised. Organised labor properly expressed its condemnation or violence on hear in- of the Los Angeles disaster. It is asserted. I na universal condemnation of a murderous deed In labor circles ought in pe a race so rar oeyond question. toe statement proceeds, "so easily ascertainable irora accessible records. -that n- man with regard for hla repu tation tor veracity could .deny It. Vio lence, brutality, destruction of life and property are foreign to the alma and method of organised labor of America and no Interest la more severely In jured by the employment of such me thods than that of the workers or a-antsed in the labor movement. rwlk-y rarblda Vlelewee. Therefore, quite apart from th spirit or humaQltarlanlsm and Justice which prompts the activities of the organised labor movement, policy and hopes for success forbid the resort to violence. The labor movement and its men are loyal Americans and seek to obtain the abolition of wronga and the attainment of their rights within the law." The statement Is signed by Samuel Gompers. president of the Federation and chairman of the committee; Frank Morrison, secretary of the Federation committee and six of the seven remaining - members of tha committee. -' . .. (f r ..... v ; x '.J. .." : ( " I . JT r: & 1 , C -!:. f 1 : f- -y v : ( i L . , ... . .. . . .w-J An Important Sale ORTIE M'XAXIOAU Of Our Women's and Misses' Suits BOAS TIS UNDOING McNamara Angers McManigal, Confession Resulting. STORY IS TOLD BY CAPTOR Informer Is All-Day Witness Before Grand Jury, bat Brothers Arc Xot Called More Indict menta Expected. M'mt!mil preni Flrt Pas. Tariret Range to Be Parrhased. OREOXIAV NKWS BI REAU. Wash ington. Dec. T. First Lieutenant Clyde K. crusan today was ordered to Fort land for a conference with Adjutant- General Flnser. of the Oregon Na tional Guard, relative to the purchase of land for a target range near Clate- kanta. Ha and General Flnser will then make a personal Inspection of the land which It la proposed the Gov ernment shall purchase. he went down town with his wife and went to the Hibernian Bank. Our office happened to be rlfrht acrosa the street and j told Mr. Burns that If ha wanted to g"t a good look at McMan igal here was his chance. 80 Burns went north on Clark street and doubled back as McManigal came out of the bank. Ha got - a good look at him. McManigal. then went to the headquar ters of tha Ironworkers' - Union and finally went home. Wife Ala Shadowed. "We trailed McManigal and his wife the next day again as they walked with their children, looking- Into shop windows and finally visiting a shoe store next to the Palmer House. I had been In McManlgal's neighborhood for several days and was afraid his children, who had aeen me. might rec ognise me and call their father's at tention to me. I saw McManigal buy a pair of shoes.- which ha Is now wear Ins;, and I remember he waa amaxed after I arrested him when I told him the else shoes he had on. how much he paid for them, and who was with him when he bought them. "McManigal left home carrrlnv a suitcase and I took a Lake Shore train witn mm to Toledo, keeping well awav from his sight all the time. When we arrived hi Toledo, -James B. Mc.N'a- nara waa waiting; for McManigal at the station exit.. They shook hands ami aat down in the atation for Mcjutniai puiiea out a map. wnicn 1 aaw was or retroit as I passed by them. They -traced over It with a lead pencil, but finally wena off to tne aieyernorr Hotel.- J. J. regis tered aa F. Caldwell and McManlaral as U. f oster. Teleda Pail VBersspatbetle. 1 oiq rvceiveo instructions to ar rest J. B. as soon as I had located him. ao I called up Chicago on the long distance telephone far instructions and got Raymond Burns on tha other end. He toW me to call In a half hour and In the meantime got Into communica tion over the telephone with hla father, who was In Boston. "Raymond Burns came on from Chi cago with Detective gergeanta Bid dinger and Reed. Wa stopped at 1 hotel on tha opposite side of the street, but as tha police In Toledo were not In sympathy with us. wa were afraid to risk aa arrest there and de termined to follow them to tha next place. he next morning at 10:10 o'clock McManigal left the hotel with J. J. Mc Namara. The former had a suitcase and at tha atation, while he bought the tickets. J. B. a-ot a small grip front the check stand. They bought tickets for Detroit. We felt happy as we boarded a train at 11 o'clock that morning for Detroit. . McManigal and McNamara t five seats ahead of us In tha same day coach. Arreat Made Waiver Slsraed. We reached Detroit at noon and they went . to the Oxford Hotel. We decided to make tha arrests there. We did so at that hotel and took them to the depot, buying tickets for Chicago. J. B. kept hollering about being kidnaped and finally attracted the at tention of some police officers so wa all had to go back to the police ata tion. The rest of tha afternoon we worked hard trying- to get them away. nd finally McManigal. who had his money In Chicago, persuaded UeX's- mlra they would be better off In his nome town and J. B. signed a waiver to proceedings In Detroit. We left tha night of April IS In a drawing-room. Ban Johnson. Charlie Comiskey and other baseball magnatea were on tha same train coming from tha opening; of tha American League aeaaon at De troit. Of course, they knew the de tective sergeants with ua, and. natur ally, we had to tell them who wa had. Wa aald they were 'a couple of yeggs' whom wo had gotten for safe-cracking-. "Mrs rpetalre Mratloaed. "Later, on James B. resented that re mark, which he overheard, and aald to ua In tha drawing-room that ha had never blown up a aafe or robbed one In his life, and that every dollar had , been paased to him by tha man up stairs.' "Ha got a bit talkative then and said: 'I'm another Vincent Altman. I am. It took $30,000 to clear him. and I ve got hundreds of thousands of dol lars and the American Federation of Labor back of me. Clarence Darrow will be my attorney. They didn't con vict Altman, and they never can con vict me. Yon fellows don't want me for no safe-Mowing; you want me for that job In Los Angeles.' "Hero It was that McManigal grasped McNamara by the hair, say ing, 'fay. fellow, do you know what you are talking about? 'I know what I m talking; about, you pin head. awered J. B. and McManicfel dropped back Into his berth with the remark, All right. If you do, go ahead. Bribe of B3o,ooo Offered. "McManigal had nothing- more to say. Also towards morning; J. B. took a different tack. 'All you fellows,' he said to us. have your price; now what Is It Biddings told J. B. It would take great deal, as therecsVere a lot of us. "J. B. finally offered $30,000 If we would let him off before reaching Chi cago, and give him 30 hours to reach tho man upstairs, of whom he had spoken. 'Remember, I've got a lot of backing.' he added, 'and If you fellows don't come across we 11 get you and you and you.' He pointed to each of us threateningly. "After we reached Chicago, Burns talked to McManigal and J. B. sepa rately. McManigal was the more litrely of the two to give up, as he had family, whereas J. B. didn't. Burns talked to McManigal all afternoon, giv ing him details of what we had on him. how we had trailed his movements and knew everything he had done for some time. Then Burns told McMan igal to send for him when he got ready to give his answer and left. Family Ties Impelling. "I had a long- talk with McManigal, too, and told him that I had seen him say cood-bye to his wife and children. I described how he had kissed them. and Informed him that there was good chance that he never would see them again as a free man and that It waa his duty to save them. "That night at 9 o'clock he sent for sir. Burns ana in tne presence or secretary gave my chief a long state ment until 4 A. M. That was how the confession was made and of course the real details of It never have been made public. We had prepared to have him tell It on the stand in the trial, but now the Federal Government can use it. "I have been with him ever since that last April and brought him to Los Angeles. I have talked a great deal with him. He Is a good fellow at heart, but reckless. He never would hurt any body, but took his pay for the dyna miting Jobs and did what he was told. He was on the Inside In all that hap pened and learned from J. J. how the whole thing was planned. Assistant District Attorney Ford, to whom had been delegated the task of handling- the evidence and crosa-exam- lnatlon of witnesses for the state, dis cussed McManlgal's revelations tonight. Ceafeaalea Caaaraaa McLaren. "All that McLaren says Is so," he : marked, "for McManigal corroborates all of It Of course when McManigal made hnt first confession In Chicago, time did not permit him to go into very much detail. Since he came out here we have taken him out nearly every day and have written down each day the new things he remembered, until today wa know all that he possibly could recall. "Hla story vrss valuable, not only for the facta themselves, but for tha clews It gave us to work up other cases. Wa ran down all hints and clews, and In every way his atory was corroborated by ua. We made a aearch of hotel reg isters, rrcorda of express shipments, railroad tlcketa and many other things which I am not at liberty even now to disclose on account of tha Federal Investigation." From the District Attorney's office today Deputy Hill accompanied Mac Laren to the Federal building, carrying aultcaaes or evidence, including- books. papers and data of many kinds. When the Federal aa-ann Jury adjourned Mac. Laren walked back to the Hall of Rec ords, where Mr. Lawler has a room In tha District Attorney's office. aeope ef Inquiry Llsulted. McManlgal's story. It wss believed. will form the basis for any Indictments returned, but aa the only persons who could he Indicted would be thoie who could be shoan to have been Implicated In conspiracies within the Jurisdiction of the court, or to have transported dy namite unlawfully to points within the Jurisdiction of the court. It is said that the Investigation here can extend only to those conspiracies that are alleged to have resulted In the explosion of the Llewellyn Iron Works and the I.os An geles Times. John J. McNamara plead ed guilty to havlnsr directed the explo sion of the Llewellyn plant. McMani gal, who confessed to having placed the dynamite, alleges that John J. paid him the money. McManlgal's mention of other persons who talked to him about the Llewellyn plant, or of the persons whom J. B. Mc Namara may have told him wanted to see tha Times destroyed, are possible salient subjects of Investigation. Samuel L. -Browne, chief investigator for State District Attorney Fredericks y Tailored by men Worthy in fabric Correct in style. $25.00 Suits selling for. . . 12.50 $42.50 Suits selling for. $30.00 Suits selling for .$15.00 $50.00 Suits selling for. $37.50 Suits selling for -. . .$18.75 $57.50 Suits selling for. Blues and Blacks only excepted. Shown on the Third Floor Please Take the Elevator. ..$21.25 ..$25.00 ..$28.75 BEN LLIN Leading Clothier Morri-som aft F ua'ir ft In 5 ft r e e ft I. , K - vr VT u m r- trl1 wavered todav nAmrr r rr f iMn a Ran VranClSCO With possible arrests in view, and finally did not go. "The next arrest In this case will be 'huh.- tm' Vi I rl . "and a man well known in tha labor world, and It will come soon. NEW CEREALS ARE TRIED HARDIER VARIETIES SOUGHT BY GOVERX5IENT. first time, experiments with grains under Irrigation have been undertaken. These experiments are conducted at points where It Is possible to compare the results obtained with similar varie ties under dry-farming conditions. "The grain sorghums are proving- In creasingly Important as stock foods for dry-land areas. The dwarf and early varieties, such as Dwarf milo. Dwarf Blackhull kaflr, Sudan durra and the kowllang-s which have been bred and distributed by this department are giving- surer yields under conditions of greater drought than were formerly possible. They also permit tho exten sion of these grains into more north ern, states, as South Dakota, Idaho and Oregon." Dry Land Investigations Extended to Oregon and Idaho Grain Sor ghums Are Important. OREOONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, Dec. 7. The breeding; of hardier and more drought-resistant cereals has been one of the Important works car ried on by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. Discussing tni topic, tha Secretary says: 'The superiority of many of the drought-resistant cereals was markedly ahown In localities where drought was severe. The Turkey and Kharkof, varletlea of Winter wheats old especial ly well, while Swedish Select oats and Ghlrka Spring- wheat showed much superiority over less resistant varieties. The total production of the Kharkof wheat In the United States must bs t least 40.000.000 bushels. Durum wheat -continued to be the leading grain crop In the dry whear-produclng sec tions of the West and Northwest, where Winter varieties are not yet depend- ble. The use of durum wheat flour Is steadily Increasing, and this product can now be purchased In a number of Eastern cities. The season's work has furnished some good results with proso millets, particularly under Irrl gatlan. but also under dry-land condi tions. Eramer. because or its petter adaptation, still gives evidence of being a valuable crop In localities a little too dry for other stock food, such as oats and barley. For the work in dry-land grain in vestigations two new experiment farms have been added, one at - Burns. Or., and one at Aberdeen, Idaho. These farma will be managed In co-operation with the experiment statlona of these states. Purine; the year, for the Ribbon Sale 5c and 8c values, yd. . 4 9c and llo values, yd. . 5? 12c and 15c values, yd. . 7 18c and 20c values, yd.lOfi Glove or Merchandise Orders to any amount. Handsome Neckwear, Hosiery and Umbrellas, New "Waists. F.P.Young 323 Morrison St. , Opposite Hotel Portland. 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