The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-04-28
LABOR men TAKEN
AS DYNAMlTERS
Charged With Completely in Los
! Angeles Times JOB.

Three detectives have been III
charge at Indianapolis, Ind, of the Of
fees of the international Association
of Bridge and Structural Iron Work
ers since they were raided and all the
books and papers have been removed
to the police station, to be submitted
to the grand jury.
The prosecutor went carefully over
some of the books, and it is believed
that others in the union besides John
J. Mcnamara, secretary-treasurer of
the international Association of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers,
James Mcnamara, brother Of the pre-
ceding and alleged head of the wreck
ing crew Of the Iron Workers union,
and Ortie E. Mechanical, Mcnamara S
lieutenant, the three who have Eeen
arrested, charged with completely in
the wrecking Of the Los Angeles
Times office and are now being taken
to that city, were either actively con-
nected with the dynamite plots or were
cognizant what was going on.
T. F. Jones, in whose stable which
Mcnamara had rented, was found dy-
Mantle sticks, was questioned by the
police and gave a description of three
men who had accompanied Mcnamara
to the stable at different times. He
was not positive as to dates, but the
officers believe that it can be shown
that these trips to the stable preceded
only by few days the explosion that
occurred at other places, and that the
dynamite used in these explosions was
carried away by the man who always
had q large grip. The theory of the
explosives in the basement Of the
Central Life building and just before it
was to be used he would take some of
it to the Jones stable and then supply
the men there with the amount they
were expected to use. They argue
that this would be safer than having
it carried out of the building in the
city. Jones stable is mile west
There is no doubt in the minds Of
the detectives and police that j.
J. Mcnamara is the head of the dy-
namiting organization that has blown
up more than hundred buildings in
the past three years. They are salts
fed that Mcnamara is not only the
head of the criminal organization, but
that he was it's inspiration and has di-
rected all its movements, purchasing
the dynamite and deciding where and
when the explosions should occur
The evidence at hand shows con-
clusively that the movement was not
aimed specially at opponents of the in
ternational union of which Mcnamara
was an officer Such confinement OF
acts of violence would have attracted
attention to the bridge and structural
iron workers alone, and the dyna-
hitting of the Los Angeles Times build
ing, the wrecking of houses in which
nOn-union men were employed and
of structures on which non-uniOu
men of the trades were employed. in
other places was part of the system
to distract attention from the iron
workers as the prime movers in the
conspiracy against life and property
The finding of dynamite in large
quantities in the actual possession of
Mcnamara, both in an old stable
which he had rented and in the base
ment of the American Central Life
building in which he had stored box
of the explosive after having the con-
sent of the custodian, is regarded as
conclusive. If anything had been
wanting to prove that this explosive
was to be used in criminal operations
it was found when a dozen of those
peculiar devices konwn as time locks
fer exploding dynamite were found in
a barrel in the same basement and
near it coil after coil of fuse, all going
to show that the man who owned the
death dealing combination was
equipped for whosesale destruction of
pl cperty.
Ortie Mechanical is said to have
made a confession at Chicago in which
he described how $3,50O,0O0 worth of
property was destroyed and over 100
persons killed through the operations
of the gang.
Samuel Gompers, of the American
Federation of Labor, applied the brand
of infamous outrage to the arrest
in Indianapolis of James J. Mcnamara
on a charge of being implicated in the
dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times.
Mr.. Gompers and Secretary Morri-
son openly state it as their belief that
dynamite was planted in the barn near
Indianapolis and hidden In the store
rooms of the Iron Workers Union
building by opponents of unions
anxious to place them in bad light
before the world