The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-24
DETECTIVES UNCOVER CONSPIRACY
 CAUSING ENORMOUS DESTRUCTION
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tors association, worked with the local police and detective department.
 The erectors' association, it is stated. represents in its membership 80 per cent Of the structural steel and iron contrac- tors of the United States. Against them in their efforts to operate "open shop" it is alleged, explosions of dyanmite under
 bridges, viaducts and buildings from Springfield Mass, to the Pacific coast have been directed.
 It was after the most serious of the explosions. that which wrecked the Los Angeles Times building, costing the lives of 21 persons, that the indictments were returned by a grand jury upon which
 were arrested here J. J. McNamara, and in Detroit. J. B. Bryce, alleged to be James McNamara, brother of J. J. Me Namara, and Ortie E. McManigal
 Rumors were many tonight that moro arrests here were impending, but the po- lice refused to discuss them. President Ryan and other officials of the Bridge and Structural Iron Workers consulted in their headquarters all day.
 Fight Over Safe
 Daybreak this morning found the off, cials of the association and their counsel in controversy with William J. Burns and his operatives, the local police and Attorney DTeW TOT tue eTeclOTS dSSOc1d- tion, as to whether a search warran.
 held by Burns vested in him power to seize the books of the association. Su- perintendent of Police Hyland finally de- termined to remove the books to police
 headquarters, where 1t was stated a transcript will be made of receipts and expenditures made by authority of Sec retary McNamara during the last two years. Mr. Drew said these entries would 11D oRf Ax,;la rxhnr 1A caJ were brought to trial at Los Angeles. The books were taken from safe in the offices of the association after an ex- pert had cut the locks. President Ryan and other officials of the International union declared that McNamara, who had teen taken from the city immediately after his arrest late yesterday, was the only official that knew the combination of the safe. After five hours work the safe locks yielded and over protests of the officials of the union and their coun- sel, Detective Burns, Attorney Drew and Assistant District Attorney w. J. Ford of Los Angeles began an examination of the books, which continued for sev- eral hours, when 1t was decided to take them to police headquarters. The custo- dian of the building in which are the offices of the Iron Workers association told the police today, they said, that McNamara had asked him for permission to build the compartment in the base ment in which explosives were discovered last night. Here the police found among old books and letter files of the associa- tion, piled indiscriminately about, four bundles of dynamite.
 Explosives Guarded
 A police sergeant guarded the dynamite all of last night and today pending its removal Business men whose offices are In the building or in neighboring build- ings made indignant protests to the po- lice against the great quantity of ex- plosives being permitted to remain in the business center of the city, but the police had difficulty in determining on saee method of disposing of 1t.
 Detective William J. Burns, who as- sisted in the graft exposures of San Fran cisco that sent Mayor Eugene F. Schmitz and Abe Reuff to jail, is the man who un- covered the conditions in the Illinois Cen tral railroad which led to the indictment Of several officials of the road, and off, cials of the agency with which he is con- nected in Chicago tonight told of the events leading up to the capture of tho men charged with the dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times.
 He was in Los Angeles at the time of