The Winslow mail., 1911-04-29
ARRESTED ON
CRAVE CHARGE
MEN CHARGED WITH DYNAMIT-
ING LOS ANGELES TIMES
BUILDING CAUGHT.
BRIBERY is ATTEMPTED
UNION OFFICER TRIES TO BUY
FREEDOM WITH LARGE SUM
OF MONEY.

Chicago.-The blacklist page in the
history of organized labor was turned
when high official of the Interna-
tional Association of Bridge and
Structural Iron Workers, was arrested
on the charge Of having engineered
the dynamiting of the Los Angeles
Times building last fall.
At almost the same moment the Of
ficial, John J. Mcnamara, secretary
treasurer of the union, was arrested
in his Indianapolis office, sinister
little party slipped out of Chicago on
special train bound for Los Angeles,
bearing with them the secrets of the
long and disastrous war against the
open shop. For two of the men, the
unions chiefs of staff in the war, the
shadow of the gallows turks at the
other end of their transcontinental
journey.
One of the prisoners in the party
that left Chicago was the mysterious
"J. B. Bryce" to whom the dynamit-
ing of the Times building had been
traced and who has been held re-
sponsible by grand jury for the MUIR
der. of the twenty-one persons who
perished in the explosion.
He proved to be none other than
James Mcnamara, brother of the la
Dor official, who for years has been
head of the secret, red-handed wreck
ing crew." in the employ of Secretary
Mcnamara.
The other prisoner was a Chicago
man, Ortise E. McManigal, whose home
is at Ala South Sangamon street, and
who is member of Local 5, of the
iron workers Chicago branch.
Both men were arrested in Detroit
April 18th, as they were making
ready to destroy the new $2,O00,000
railroad terminal there.
Following the arrest of Secretary
Mcnamara in Indianapolis, his private
vault was searched and 100 quarts of
nitroglycerine were removed.
That John J. Mcnamara, who is de-
clared to be the brains of the open
shop war, might be taken into custody
at the proper moment, their arrest
was suppressed. They were tricked
into allowing themselves to be taken
to Chicago from Detroit without legal
resistance and since then have been
held there.
On the way from Detroit. the detec-
tives assert, Mcnamara attempted to
win freedom through bribery. He is
said to have offered first $4,000 and
then 100000 to be allowed to slip off
the train with his companion.
Los Angeles.-Labor union circles all
over the country a-e deeply stirred by
the arrest and hasty eXtradition from
Ohio of the three Los Angeles sus-
poets, and frequent comparisons of
this case and that of Meyer, Hay
wood and Pettibone in Colorado have
been made by leaders.
Los Angeles authorities, fearing
further violence either by friends Of
the suspects or by indignant citizens
in whose memory the horrors of the
Times explosion remains firmly fixed
are taking great precautions to keep
secret the routes taken by the prison
ers and their guards and the time of
their arrival on the coast.
Further evidence, said to be con-
vincing beyond possible doubt, has
been unearthed by Detective William
J. Burns and Indianapolis officers
Books of the Iron Workers Associa-
ton have been seized and another
"plant" of dynamite has been discov-
cred and confiscated in Ohio.