Bisbee daily review., 1911-12-17
LABOR HEADS SUMMONED ID
 LOS ANGELES
Veitmoe and JohanSen Hand ed Papers When They Ar rive in Sacramento
 from East
BOTH DECLARE THEY
 HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE
Heads of Unions Are Willing Witnesses and Will Answer All Questions Put
 10 Them


 SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dec 16.- When Olaf A. Tveitmoe and Anton Johannsen. the San Francisco labor leaders. stepped from the Overland Limited in Sacramento this afternoon 10 get a breath of fresh air, both were served with a summons to ap- pear before the federal grand jury in Los Angeles to testify in connec- ton with the government probe in the alleged nationwide conspiracy to dynamite Elmer Warner, U. s. mar shal, served the summons, which com manded Tyeitmoe and Johannsen to appear in Los Angeles forthwith.
 All right. said Tveitmoe, We will appear forthwith if that means next week But l nave a great deal to do in San Francisco, and cannot go to Los Angeles al once, but shall be there to answer all questions and meet any issue
 Attends Funeral First.
 shall be at liberty to go to Los Angeles tomorrow night" said Johannsen, my little daughter died a few days ago at Corte Madeira, shall have to go home at once to attend her funeral Immediately af- ter that l shal go south and tell the grand jury anything it wishes to know"
 Both Tveitmoe and Johannsen talksd freely, and declared they had nothing to fear from the federal or local investigation as to the relations of labor leaders to the dynamiting of the Times plant.
 Are Willing Witnesses
 We will go into court or before any jury, federal or local, and tell all we know about this or any other matter. but we know nothing that would in the least throw any light on that subject or any other in which violence played a part said Tveit- moe T am not seeking blood, not the blood of the worst enemy I have, nor the worst enemy organized labor has I do not believe in crime. It is an instrument that has never done any good in the struggle for social reform All tabor men deplore the means of destruction the McNamars adopted, we regret it because is cast a great blight upon organized labor, and gives the movement a temporary setback. But this will be forgotten in a short time Industrial unions will and must succeed. even despite the foolhardy feats of which the Mo- Namaras were guilty.
 T never knew the McNamaras at all well. l never met J. B., but met J. J. at labor conventions, and had a high regard for him always, but never had any social or business in- tercourse with him, never met him in San Francisco nor Los Angeles.
 Confession Shocked Him
 'I was the most shocked man in the convention at Atlante, Ca. when I read the confession. always thought them innocent So far as E am concerned, they can probe un- til the end of time. They may call me anywhere. l shall meet any issue they raise. l have nothing to fear. I have no idea why should be called hefore the grand jury can tell them nothing because I know nothing. It is an effort to place me and other men prominent in the labor movement in a bad light. They will continue that sort of thing until the people begin to realize that what has been prosecution has become perse- cution.
 Johannsen dismissed the whole mat ter in a few words. Let them go as far as they like; they have nothing on us. and l have nothing to fear. ] know nothing about the MoNamaras nor about anything else connected with the case. l never met J. B., but met J. J. in the county jail at Los Angeles. I was greatly surprised that they were guilty. l shall be glad to go to Los Angeles as quick as ! bury my little girl I shall tell everything know freely. fully