Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-12-05
RUIN BLOODSHEO AND OUTRAGE MARK THE
MOLOCH-LIKE COURSE OF THE NAMITERS
Records Show That Within Past Four Years Almost $50
Explosions Have Occurred and it is Possible ALI
of Them Were Result of Gigantic Conspiracy
in Which the McNamaras Are Said
to Have Been Involved

John J. Mcnamara. secretary treas
urcr of the Structural Iron Worers
and Bridge Builders union. self con
fessed dynamiter of the Llewellyn
Iron works. i'm Los Angeles. was ar
rested last April after the Burns de-
tcctive agency had been slowly weav-
ing a flawlcsS chain of evidence
about him for months. During q
period of over four years. there had
been one dynamite explosion after
another on big jobs where the union
Of which Mcnamara was secretary
treasurer did not control the work
open shop jobs they were called
Then came the wrecking OF the Los
Angeles Times building, October l.
1910. and the killing of y employees
followed shortly after by the dyna-
hitting of the I.lewellyn Iron works
in Los Angeles on December 3.
The same chain Of evidence that
had been tightening about the secre-
tary-treasurer of the Structural Iron
Workers. strengthened by the con-
fession of Ortie McAIanigaL one al
the conspirators, becahe SO taut that
The officials felt warranted in arrest
ling him: with him they arrested his
brother. James b. a union printer.
Both men We're hurriedly taken from
indianapolis. their headquarters. Ia
Los Angeles. for trial
The evidence was strongest against
James and he was selected for trial
first. the specific charge being that
he caused the death of James Hag-
acrtv. IN omploye Of the Times. by
Wrccking the building with dyna-
mite.
Friday afternoon. after their coun-
sci had made them see the fatal
weight of evidence against them, the
two men confessed. James To the
crime of wrecking the Times plant
i'm which 4 men met death. and
John ] To- the crime of wreckinG the
I.Icwcllyn Iron Works.
James insisted that he confessed
only To save john. 1t has been the
contention that John, secretary
treasurer of the union. was the man
who planned the mischief. and that
James was the man who had exc
cutcd most of it,
DYNAMITlNG OUTRAGES
The various dNnamiting ouraSeS
that have been committed against
open shop" jobs in the past four
vears-all of them being fought by
AIcNamara's Structural Steel Work
ors' union-includes a list Of nearly
1870 The principal ones follow:
October y. l9o6-American Bridge
company Copon shop viaduct being
built Tor the PittsburE. Virginia *
Charleston railroad. at Clarion, Pa
Derrick car 80. POI used i'm the work
was dynamited. one of the watch
men employed by the American Bridge
company was decoyed away from the
Job and assaulted by the men who
blew up the car.
From May l, 1907. dates the aG-
gressive policy of the National Free
tors association in regard to the de-
Tense Of the open shop At first the
only incidents Of note were some few
fist fights among union and nom
union men. Incidents of determined
violence were at first infrequenL
DYNAMITE ENGINE
September l4-American Bridge
company (open shop At the plant Of
the American Steel and Wire COM
panv at Cleveland. O.-Hoisting en-
CINE dynamited and completely de-
stroyed. The deed was done under
cover of darkness and at time when
the Waterman had gone to another
portion Of the plant TO attend to other
duties.
October 3O-Youngstown Con-
struction company (open shop on the
Baltimore * Ohio bridge. at Youngs-
town. O.-Early in the morning an
attempt was made To wreck the above
bridge. The bridge. however, was not
nut out of commission by the eX-
plosiOn.
October 3O-American Bridge com
pany (open shop at bridge being
erected for the Pennsylvania railroad
over Newark Meadows. near Newark,