DYNAMITE AND STRIKES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1218, 29 August 1911, Page 5

DYNAMITE AND STRIKES.

MINERS' COTTAGES BLOW* UP, By Telegraph-Press Assoctatton-Ooprrigst Ottawa, August 27. Cottages occupied by Austrian miners in Alberta were dynamited following a striko. for better conditions in the coal mines. ' Two arrests have been made. ALLEGED LABOUR OUTRAGES.,- -' ! -ce tho arrest of tho three Labour umoi ts accused of dynamiting the nonunionist Los Angeles "Times plant a year ago there has been much looso ana violent talk in the United States, and both sides in the industrial warfare have been 'accusing each other of organising a "gigantic conspiracy." Now apparently dynamite is beginning to figure m Canadian labour disputes. A press corrcsspondent writing recently of tho situation after the Los Augcies arrests, said: "The state of affairs is altogether singular. Unionist officials, from the highest to the least, eminent, excitedly denounce the arrest of the M'Namara brothers and Ortie M'Manigal as the culmination of a plot to assassinate organised labour. On their part, the officials of employers organisations, such as the National Erectors' Union, chargo that the Iron Workers' Union, of which John ,T. M'Namara is secretary and treasurer, is the instigator of some fifty or more dynamitmgs during the last two years, involving the sacrifice of manv lives and the destruction of millions of dollars' worth of property, because non-unionists had been employed in connection therewith. With nccusalions and counter-accusations, of this nature flying back and forth the relations between capital and labour have becomo moro strained throughout tho country, and the prospects are that many strikes will bo called during this year. The suggestion made by Socialistic agitators that a universal strike be declared is, however, strongly . disapproved by unionist leaders^

"Despite the apparently damaging case that has been made out against the alleged dynamiters, trades unionists .throughout the United State's. nre' ; absolutely unanimous in their prejudgment of tho case in favour of (heir fellow unionists, and in declaring that tho whole prosecution rests on 'manufactured evidence'."