The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Final Act in Three Months Dynamiting Trial Came With Unprecedented
 Swiftness
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Indianapolis, December 2S.-lhe United States government, with stern and decisive swiftness, today took into it's possession 3S union labor of- ficiaIs convicted of conspiracy, of pro- noting explosions on non-union work throughout the land, of aiding in the destruction which brought loss of life at Los Angeles, and of carrying on reign of terror" declared to be un- paralleled in the history of the hls- tory of the country.
 Almost the entire executive staff of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers was convicted. Only two officials oi that union now remain out of jail. At the head of the list of the convicted stands Frank M. Ryan, the president.
 1t was of this union, with 12,0OO members, that John J. McNamara was secretary while he con 5 ducted the dynamitings out of which the present convictions grew.
 Today's convictions, coming on scale unprecedented in federal court, were an aftermath of the killing Of q persons in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building on October 1. 1910. Me Nanara and his brether. James B., the Times dynamiter, are conviets in Cali fornia; Ryan and his fellow officials, for mer associates of McNamara, are fed eral prisoners here, awaiting sentence. 
 Two Not Iron Workers
 Two of those convicted were not affil- iated with the iron workers union, but they were found guilty of joining with the iron workers officials in promoting the conspiracy. One of these is Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Francisco, a recognized labor leader on the Pacific coast, the testimony against whom was that he aided in causing explosions at Los An seles, wrote letters about them and re- ferred to them as Christmas presents" after the fatal Times explosion, and that he aided in coneealing evidence wanted in California. He is secretary of the California Building Trades Council.
 Hiram A. Kline, Muncie, Ind, the other member of another union convicted was formerly an organizer for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners in Detroit.
 Another token of the Los Angeles ex- plosion came in the conviction of J. F.. Munsey, who was charged by the gov ernment with barboring James E. Me- Namara for two weeks in Salt Lake City, while that dynaniter was fleeing from the scene of his crime.
 Many of those convicted were charged with knowing only of local explosions on the work of contractors who refused to recognize the union, but were thus brought into the general conspiracy. Ryan, John T. Butler. vice president of the union. Buffalo; Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco; Frank c. Webb, New York, Michael J Young, Boston: Phillip A. Cooley, New Orleans; Henry W. Leg leitner, Denver, and Charles N. Beum. Minneapolis, were all convicted as hav- ing appropriated out of the unions funds 5000 month with which McNamara paid for explosions.
 Herbert S. Hoclzin, who resigned as sec- retary of the union only a few weeks ago, who was branded as the Iago of the conspiracy in having helped to in-
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