Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-04-25

who will be charged with the safe
keeping of the alleged dynamite con-
spirators. All maintain that Burns
is keeping his own counsel, and has
not informed anyone of the move
ments of the prisoners.
That they are coming across the
continent by zig-zag routes however
is asserted on all sides. Chief Sc
bastan said he believed the prisoners
would not arrive for two weeks
Sheriff Hammel. who will be directly
charged with the custody of the al
legged plotters. declared that they
probably would not arrive until the
last of the present week, instead of
Wednesday as he expected.
Hammel added that those in charge
Of the McNamaras and McManigal
might change their route several
times during the trip and come by
the way Of the Southern trunk lines
or by San Francisco. In any case one
county motor cars will be sent fifty
or sixty miles out of the city to meet
the prisoners to bring them secretly
to the county Jail.
\ large detail of new men were ex-
amined today by Chief Sebastian. He
declined to say whether additions to
the force are being made on account
of the tense situation, developed since
the arrest of the international secre-
tary OF the iron workers association
and his two alleged confederates.
The iron workers are on strike here
and though there are no belligerent
expressions from the union men. the
police regard the situation as one de
manding alertness and a police force
sufficient to cope with emergencies
Several police officials expressed a
fear that the arrival of the Nc
Namaras and McManigal might be-
made signal for precipitating the
long threatened general strike for
Los Angeles. Such a
strike. coming before or during the
trial of the accused conspiratOrs.
would complicate matters and create
a dangerous condition.
Such fears on the part of the po-
lice are unfounded, however. accord
ing to a statement issued by ]. +.
Timmons. general organizer for the
iron workers, who is in charge Of the
strike here. Timmons said that all
the labor unions wanted was n square
deal He asserted that it was pal
pably the intention of the foes of
union labor To lay at the doors Of
the workingmen,' 5 organizations, re
sponsibility for the Times outrage.
But" he added, 4 have only to
remind the people OF the country how
often such terrible charges have been
made against unions The unions
are not organizations of murderers,"
TimmOns continued, and nobody
would rejoice more to see the guilty
punished than the members Of the
labor unions"
Leaders of the local unions can
tinued their private conferences today
on the subject of the de-
Tense Of the prisoners. and for raising
funds 10 finance the legal battle
which gives every promise Of being
fiercer and more bitter than that
which resulted in the acquittal Of
Meyer. Haywood and Pettibone in
the Stuenenberg case. 1t is reported
here that Clarence Darrow. the man
who defended the Colorado miners
in the Idaho dynamting case will
take the lead in defending the Nc
Namaras and McManigal 1t is also
said that Attorney Rappaport. coun-
sci for the International Iron Work
ers' association, at indianapolis. will
be the personal representative OF John
Job Hartman. the So
cialist attorney was mentioned as a
probable member of labOrs legal ar
ray the trial But nothing author
itative regarding the defense plans
can be obtained
report that habeas corpus pro-
ceedings will be instituted here i'm
mediately upon the arrival of the
prisoners, likewise could not be veri-
fled.