The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-11-12

were blown up. l vas to send a tele-
gram to l.. A. Noel. 2oS Vermont
Detroit, saying stock had
been sold in Boston and Hoboken and
signifying the dates OF the explosions
anu signing Ping
An Opera House.
at Boston | checked the dynamite
at the station, went to a labor hall
and met Young. He took me out
and showed me where they were
erecting a new opera house and said
put a she in there thatll raise hell.
"At night on March 81, / put the
suit case containing twenty-five
pounds of dynamite in the building
and after lighting a fifty-foot fuse
went to the station, out finding | had
missed my train | went to a hotel
for the night after sending a souvenir
spoon to my wife, as l did at each
city.
9Th next day went to New York
and called at a labor hall in 42nd
street. From a man there [ learned
that Webb lived in 123rd street. |
saw Webb at his house and said Ping
sent me here He replied Yes. |
thought you were the man.
Webb and | the ext day went to
Jersey City.
There was a job there. he said. he
WOU1u AdlIlCf Tx Wv"
the Hoboken job. but | told him
Hockin's orders were for Hoboken
and I would do nothing else. Webb
aid the boys there had $1,000 in h
treasury they would like to use up.
We returned to New York and the
next day he went to Brooklyn to look
over some work there. Then he went
to HobOken. On the ferry going over
Webb handed me $50. saying it was a
present from Mike Young. l told him
I needed just that much
"In Eoboken Webb pointed out q
.viaduct he wanted me to blow up. I
took q good look at it and returning
to New York got the dynamite n
went back to Hoboken. I put the
bomb at the best place I could find
and took the train West. At Pitts
burg I sent a telegram to Noel. Sold
stock Boston p. Hoboken 81
Took Away His $50.
when Hockin in Chicago handed
me $3.50 for the Jobs. he said he
would take out $50 Young had
given me, for the executive board had
charged it up. 1 old him l thought
You ng had made me a present Of that,
h n l informed him what Webb
had said about my doing work for
the New York union, as they had
money they wanted to spend. Hockin
said that vas not to De thought Of
as ! was working for the executive
board Of the international union and
for no local unions.
I'm June, 1908, While | was work
ing at Evanston, H., Hockin appear
ed, saying he had a new invention
He said hereafter they were going
to use nitro-glycerino with an alarm
clock and battery attachment so yol
could set a bomb eleven hours ahea(
and be hundreds Of miles away whe1
the explosion came and thus prov,
an alibi.
HE wanted me to put nitro-gly
cerine in the concrete foundation 0
a job I then was working on sc tina
If later a %non-union firm did the Stee
construction we might easily blow
up. l refused. Hockin said the.
had tried out the new invention q
~Steubenville, Ohio, where they IA
success with five explosions had an
Cincinnati and Indianapolis. It was
great success, he said.
drove to Albany. Ind. where w
bought 100 quarts OF nitro-glycerine
telling the man 1t was to be used t
blow up bitches.
A "Good Job"
when we returned to Indianap poll
I had a talk with ]. B.. MCNAMARA
He told me he had done the Green
Odyp WIS.,, JOD. AdlcI LII ApIl1 / IIAe
him in Chicago. He said he was o
his way to blow up the Utah hOte
then under construction in Salt LAX
City. On his way back from Sa
Lake City he showed me a newspape
> account OF the explosion on April i
!, 1910, and giving a picture Of the de
> stroyed plant Of the structure. H
: said the union had had q lot {
= trouble out there and he had made
good Job Of it.
!, About this time they were arrang
: Ing for me to blow up a job at Mou1
\ Vernon, but I told them I knew notf
ing about nitro-glycerine.
Anyway j. J. Mcnamara had II
come to h iron workers headQua1
, , ters in Indianapolis where he bruugl
q out two four-quaIt cans from q cuI
= board n began to explain how cas-
il vas with the new clock inventio,
I went to Mount Vernon and did tt
Job April 49,"
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