Arizona republican., 1912-09-30
INDICTED UNDER
 FEDERAL STATUTE
John J. and James B. Me Namara Are Also Ac- cused, But Cannot Be Brought From San Quen- tin Prison for Trial
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 INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 29.-Many of the fifty-one defendants in the cases charging conspiracy to trans port explosives in violation of fed eral laws and involving scores of eX- plosiOns where a structural steel work was in progress throughout the country, arrived here today, The cases will come up Tuesday before United States District Judge A B. Anderson. The defendants were ac- companied by more than a dozen attorneys from Chicago. Kansas City, New York and other cities.
 It was the first time that many of the men had met since their arraign- ment last March Frank NJ Ryan, president of the International AssOci- ation of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, with Herbert s. HOckin, act ing secretary and treasurer of the union, also a defendant, held a con ference at which the plans of the de- fense were discussed with William H. Harding. one of their counsel
 It is expected that tomorrow United States Senator Kern, retained by the indicted union officials, will take charge of the case. only four of the men so far have not been arraigned. They are Ortie E. McManigal, con fessed dynamiter, assistant to the Mo Namara brothers; Eugene A Clancy and Olaf A. TVietmOe, of San Fran cisco; and J. E. Munsey, of Salt Lake City. McManigal will be witness.
 The pleading of these men will be the first move at the opening of the trial. District Attorney Miller and Clarence Nichols, his assistant, who had active charge of the governments evidence before the grand jury last winter, said the prosecution would op- pose any requests for delay One and possibly two defendants. may be un- able to appear because of illness.
 Indicted under federal statute for bidding the transportation of explo- sives on passenger trains, the de- fendants are alleged to have been concerned in d nation wide plot to destroy the property of contractors employing nOn-union ironworkers, eliminating in the explosion in the Los Angeles Times building. which cost twenty-One lives
 Fifty-four were indicted by the 54 anu Ju+ III llS ItIOIl OI r eDTudGN last. but of this number John J. and James B. McNamara are in San Quentin prison, Cal, and J. J. McCray, a former member of the executive board of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, has not been found by the federal authorities
 Most of the defendants are or have been connected with the iron workers association, which since 1905. has been engaged in a struggle with the National ErectOrs' assocfa- ton of structural steel and iron con tractors employing non-union work men. Members of this employers as sociation association suffered loss from more than one hundred explo- sions from 1905 to 1911
 Following the arrest of John J. McNamara, secretary treasurer of the ironworkers' association, at it's head quarters in this city. and the arrest of James B. McNamara and Ortie E. McManigal in Detroit, in connection with the Los Angeles Times expIo- sion, presentments were made to the federal grand jury of this district that officials of the ironworkers as sociatiOn and other labor unions had been concerned in a conspiracy to intimidate employers of unorganfzed labor by a systematic destruction of their property
 Ortie McManigals confession. in which he related that he had been employed by the McNamara brothers end Herbert $. Hockin, acting sec retary- treasurer of the ironworkers' association, to dynamite bridges and buildings in course of construction by non union contractors was the basis of the government inquiry He is to be the principal witness for the gov ernment in the forthcoming trial. A mass of letters and other records seized in a raid on the offices of the irOnWOrkers's association, also will be offered as evidence of a gen eral conspiracy secretly to convey dynamite and nitro -glycerin from coast to coast in a campaign against employers of unorganized ironwork- CTS.
 Most prominent among the defend ants are Frank M Ryan, presiden; of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers: Herbert $. HOckin, acting secretary treasurer and the alleged head of the "dynamiting crew." John T. Butler of Buffalo. first vice. president, and Michael J. Young of Boston and