William J. Burns Masked War

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Every possible lie that could be hatched was aimed at me while my net closed on the mena maras and those of the International Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, who betrayed the workers of that union to the Anarchists. Not only were ef forts made to kill me, but every conceivable effort was made to kill my reputation. I am called the arch-enemy of organized labor. The fact is that I believe in organized labor, and believe that it has helped the workingman and will help him more when the unions shall purge themselves of such men as fight for their leadership to graft, to destroy and to kill. The war with dynamite was a war of Anarchy against the established form of government of this country. It was masked under the cause of Labor. This is not figurative at all. It is fact. My re ports of investigations among the Anarchists in this country, written in the terse and simple lan guage of my investigators, will prove it. Person ally, as well as through these reports, I know this, for I spent a part of my time trailing the Anarch ists and living among them in their nest at Home Colony, near Tacoma, Wash., the community which provided two of the men who assisted J. B. Mc Namara in blowing up the Los Angeles Times Building and sending to a dreadful death twenty-one hard-working, innocent heads of families.