The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-07
Returned by Federal Grand Jury
at indianapolis
LABOR UNION MEN IN LIST
Defendants Include Not Only Members
of the Mcnamara Crew, but Men
Who Know What Mcnamara
Did with Union Funds.

indianapolis, Feb. I. Thirty three in
dictments, most OF them said to bt
against labor union officials, were re
turned by the federal grand jury yes
! terday afternoon as a result of the gov
ernment's investigation of the dynamite
conspiracy.
! The defendants names were ordered
! Kept secret pending arrests. 1t Is UNI
! derstood that warrants will be issued
Immediately. Not only members OF the
Mcnamara dynamiting crew, but also
OF men knowing what Mcnamara did
with the union money are believed to be
among the indicted.
District Attorney Miller later an
bounced that 32 indictments pertained
to the dynamiting conspiracy, and that
enc true bill was in another case.
Some of the indictments name more
than one defendant, possibly 40 men
being accused. All are supposedly un-
ion labor officials and agents, held Grim
inaIly responsible with the Mcnamara 5
and McManigal in perpetrating over 100
dynamite outrages throughout the coun-
try during the past six years, All the
indicted persons viii be arrested on a
day secretly fixed by the government,
undoubtedly within week of March
r.. the date set for the arraignment.
Fully one hundred explosions of dyna-
mite, at points scattered over II states,
and covering a period from the summer
of 1905 to October l6, 1911, when dyna-
mite was found beneath a bridge near
Santa Barbara, Cal, just before Presi-
dent Taft's special train passed over it,.
were inquired into by the grand jury.
It has been the theory of the govern
.mcnt that all Of these explosions were
intended to intimidate employers and
non-union workingmen with the general
intent to abolish the so-called open
shop" and certain labor organizations,
more particularly the international Tn
ion of the Bridge and Structural Iron
Workers.
The states in which explosions oc-
Cured were Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Penn
svlvania. New York, New Jersey, Mary
land. Connecticut, Massachusetts,, Mich-
gan. Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Ne
braska, Utah, California and Washing
ton. Ohio. with twenty explosions, had
roore than any other one state. IL
I;nois, Indiana and New York follow in
order, in respect of the number of the
explosions.
There were two explosions in 1905;
nine in 1906; six in 1907; twenty-six
in 1908; twenty in 1909; twenty five
in 1910, and thirteen in 1911. These
figures are exclusive of the explosion
which wrecked the Los Angeles Times
plant, and resulted in the confessions
and Imprisonment of the brothers, John
j. and James b. Mcnamara. John j.
Mcnamara was secretary treasurer OF
tho International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers.
The preliminary exhibit of facts and
allegations about the explosions and
their supposed origin was gathered and
presented to the federal authorities by
tho National Erectors' association, an
organization OF iron and steel manufac-
turers and contractors who had declared
for the "open shop" After the ex-
plosions in 1906 the Erectors' associa-
tion was formed, and in May, 1906 after
declaring as an organization for the
"open shop" engaged detectives to seek
out the identity of those responsible
for the explosions.
One of the first instances of the find
ing VI HluueH tApibHlNtc Ne
fore the erectors organized and followed
an attempt to blow up a building in
East Twenty-third street, New York
City. Two men were convicted. One
OF them confessed to having received
$50 on one occasion for a lob" and
500 for cutting cable. He told OF
the location of 100 one-pound sticks Of
dynamite, which subsequently were
found in the Jersey Meadows and in
the sands at the foot of East Twenty
fourth street.
The erectors continued their investi-
cations until the spring of 1911, but !
while the detectives were working in |
one place, the explosions occurred with !
more frequency in others. More than |
a dozen yiaducts, bridges, buildings and |
other construction work. all being erect !
ed by firms employing non-union labor,
had been blown up before Ortie f. Nc !
Manigal appeared on the scene, and be- |
fore he began to work with John j. and |
James B. Mcnamara as a professional
dynamiter.
The investigation of the dynamite
after the pleas of guilty
had been made by the Mcnamara broth
srs was continued to ascertain who I
Else. if anyone, participated in or gave
financial support to the crimes.