The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-30
THREE ARRESTED
Labor Leaders, Witnesse S in, by
Mantle Investigation,
Are Held for Completely in Nc
Namara Conspiracy.
THE SPECIFIC CHARGE
Is Transporting Explosives
From Place to Place
In Violation of Federal Statutes
on That Subject.
THE SPECIFIC CHARGE


Tyeitmoe. secretary treasurer of the
state building trades council; J. E.
AIunsey, leader of the Salt Lake union
of structural iron workers, and An
tonic Johnson, organizer of the state
building trades council. were indicted
today by the federal grand jury in
connection with the dynamiting con-
spiracy Their arrest followed.
The three labor leaders, who have
been here for some time as witnesses
in the government dynamite probe,
We're arrested in the witness room of
the federal building a few minutes
after the indictments were filed in
Judge Olin Wellborn's court. None of
them expressed any surprise and when
told by Deputy United States Marshal
Albert Sittell that they were under ar
rest for alleged conspiracy with the
NIcNamara brothers, and were wanted
at once in the federal court. they pro-
ceeded there without a word
The charge against the three labor
leaders is the general one of conspiracy
to transport dynamite in violation OF
the interstate commerce law The tr-e
bills under which the trio were taken
prisoners were but a part of packet
containing an unknown number or IN
Cictments- Deputy inarShalS were sent
ogt Immediately and it was said that
other arrests We're imminent, both here
and in san Francisco.
Only one labor leader prominently
connected with the investigation beside
the three under arrest is still in Los
Angeles He is E. A. -tncy. former
business agent for the structural IRON
workers union of San Francisco. who
has been i'll for some time with heart
trouble It was stated today that he
was in bed at q hotel.
Grand jury Adjourns.
Shortly after returning the indlct-
ments the grand jury adjourned until |
next Tuesday oscar LAWYER, the spe-
cial federal prosecutor, was not pres
ent when the true bills were filed in /
r he had gone /
east probably with District Attorney |
John D. Fredericks, who left for In |
diana polls this morning at 4:3O-
Fredericks took with him suitcases
that were supposed to contain evidence |
for the Mcnamara trial. LAWYER how |
ever, was not with F'redericks when I
the latter boarded the train
United States District Attorney A. l. |
Mccormick in charge of the dynamite |
cases and Job Hartman. late socialist |
candidate for mayor and his assistant !
J. H Ryckman. were summoned by the I
indicted men. Clarence S. DarroW. for +
lnerIy chief counsel for the McNamaras
had also been sent for but had not APP /
peared up to nOon-
Too Many Lawyers Already.
The sudden action OF the grand jury I
coming day after 4he special govern
ment prosecutor s1lftd declared there |
probably would be no indictments for |
week or ten days. If at all. had a visible
effect upon Tveitmoe. He was pale
Wneu taken INTO the united states I
marshaTS office. but Johannsen and |
Munsey both accepted their situation
with smile.
Who viii YOU have for your attor-
neys2" Johannsen was asked
Blamed If know; We've had too many
attorneys already" he replied with t
laugh.
II have nothing to say he replied to
This case will be tried in the federal
court. not in the newspapers t Won /
talk. Bail. IL said had been fixed /
at 5000 for each man. and Attorney Har- /
Timan. after a conference with the three |
prisoners left the federal building to OBJ /
tain the $4,000 cash. or $4,000 property |
security demanded by the government.
Judge Wellborn adjourned his court un- /
til TUESDAY before Hartman had returned |
ready to give bail. and arrangements We're /
made to have the prisoners appear either /
before United States Commissioner Van
dyke or Commissioner Williams if they
are able to bring forward the necessary |
security before nightfaH-
So far known today Clarence s Oar
will not he associated in the defense
Of the prisoners
One labor leader made the statement he
would not be retained
The Men Under Arrest.
san Francisco. Dec. 30.-Olof Tveit-
moe, indicted today in Los Angeles, is
the secretary of the state and local
building trades council and president
of the Asiatic Exclusion league. which
spreads over the Pacific coast He also
Is editor of the local building trades
journal of organized labor and a mem
Der of the executive board of the Ma
tional Brotherhood of Cement Workers,
which ne organized.
TveitmOe. who is 2 Norwegian, came
to this country when a young man.
Editing q paper in Minnesota. he be-
came involved in financial transact
tiOn as the result of which he spent a
short term in the state prison at Still
water
Tveitmoe obtained his secretaryship
in tile building trades council n hollr 4en /
years ago
Anton Johannsen served as a model
Tor the hero of a recent labor novel.
He has a more powerful following in
Chicago than in San Francisco. He
was early a leader in the labor move
ment in Chicago. while an officer of
the wood workers union.
His politics was then of a socialistic
turn and he created a sensation in the
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor in Pittsburg by denOunc-
ing Gompers as a progressive.
While in Chicago Johannsen was
gers" advocating peaceful methods of
dealing with the non-uniOnists. He
came to San Francisco five years ago
and for the last two years has been
organizer for the state building trades
Tvemitmoe and Johannsen. We're both
attending the convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor at Atlanta at
the time the MeNamaras confessed.
NIunsey's Wife a Witness.
Los Angeles Dec. 30=AIrs Munsey
er. and her SON. Alfred Goodrich, were
among the witnesses before the grand
e have been practically a repetition of a
public declaration she made some time
ago that her husband had seen or had
communicated with the McNamaras both
before and after the Times explosion.
I'm not going TO talk at all. Munsey
said today "AH I have to say will be
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