New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-31
Ryan's Sentence Of Seven Years
the Heaviest; Others Get
from Six Years to a
= Year and a Day.
TEARS AND SONGS MINGLE
Prisoners, Manacled, March to
Jail Chanting ION the Banks
of the Shannon" Followed
by Wailing Wives-Judge
Charges Murder.

day on tmrty-three TABOR uiiloii oiii'i'
y. convicted of having engaged in the de-
struction of property by dynamite from
Boston to Los Angeles.
AS the head of the organization
whose strike was given as the motive
for promoting the dynamite plots
Frank NJ. Ryan was sentenced TO serve
seven, years, the heaviest sentence OF
all. He is the president of the iron
workers international union.
OF the thirty eight men convicted as
. conspirators in the Mcnamara dyna-
hitting schemes eight were given prison
terms of six. wears each. These eight
. prisoners were all affiliated with Ryan
Two men each were given four years
twelve men each were given three
wears. four men each were given two
wears, six men each were given one
wear and one day, and six men, includ-
ing Edward Clark, Of Cincinnati,
dynamiter. who pleaded guilty, were
allowed their liberty on suspended SEN
fences.
The elimination Of those who received
suspended sentences left thirty-three
who are 10 go to LeavenWorth' where
the shortest sentence will be one year
and one day.
BY the liberation OF Hiram r. Kline,
n former official Of the carpenters
union Olaf A. Tveitmoe, of San Fran
cisco. remained as the only labor union
official among the prisoners not related
8 with the ironworkers' union. But it
was Tveitnioe who was charged by the
: government with having connived with
President Ryan and the McNamaras
for the destruction of life and property
on the Pacific Coast 1t was Tveitmoe
who. was again and again referred TO
bv the government before the jury as
murderer. who ought 10 be in San
Quentin Prison along with the Nc
a.: - sr,S e.vs.r t. .,... 81
e.. Gaflty Of Murder, Says Court .
Judge Albert b. Anderson read from
the federal bench statement, IN which
ne said:
"Tbe evidence shows some Of these
.defenda nts to be guilty Of murder, but
as they are net charged here with that
crime the court. cannot punish them
for IT,"
The court, referring TO the dynamit-
ings, declared that the evidence in TINS
case win convince any impartial per-
son that government by injunction Is
. Infinitely TO be preferred TO government
by dynamite" Judge Anderson ADDED:
This scheme. or campaign, of dynamite
Vas sntfred. into and carried or through
ont the country, from the Atlantic TO the
Pacific. The evidence discloses an ap-
paIling list Of crimes in addition TO thOse
charged in the nn nCit,ad ~ Tho name
of organized labor. l Will not beDeVe
that organized labor approved such pTac-
tees. Any organization that aPpropdSs
and adopts the methods or these oeIetu-
ants is an outlaw and Will meet the
fate which outlaws have met since CIVIL
lied society began. ...... -.
The certainty or punishment nov Jus
severity is the important consideration
IN the administration of criminal Justice.
such punishment should be meted out
as shall warn others that, even II they
desire 10 accomplish lawful ends they
must not violate the law in the attempt
TO realize them Keeping these conslo-
erations in view. the court must reptess
that indignation which every law sblo-
ing citizen naturally feels at the crimes
which the evidence in this case as
closes ia addition TO those for which the
defendants have been found guilty and,
as near as may be possible, contine the
punishment within its proper scope.
Referring TO the ironworkers' strike,
which, the government charged, was
the motive that prompted John j. Nc
Namara to use dynamite as weapon,
ssdxe Anderson said that the strike
was attended by picketing and then by
sluggings and riots He continued:
Rut in 1905 a campaign by dynamite
was inaugurated. and beginning with ex-
plosives In the East and extending from
the Atlantic TO the Pacific continued
until the arrest of the McNamaras and
McManigai In April. 1911.
The evidence in this case shows that
almost one hundred explosions damag-
ing and destroying structures IN process
OF erection by, and machinery OF, open
shop concerns took place. eliminating on
Octo5er /. 1910, In the destruction Of "The
Los Angeles Tines building and the
murder OF twenty-one people. Every one
pf these explosions was upon me WORK
Of open shop'tconeerns, and no explosion
a. shown to have taken place upon any
flosed shop Job Since the arrest OF the
MCNdmardS ana hCmdDiBdl inc tApiS-
This system OF destruction was not
tarried on for revenge or obedience 10
any other human passion. but Tor the
deliberate purpose. by verltaoie reign
of terror, TO enforce compliance with the
xlemands Of the ironworkers upon the
open and closed shop question
/ Hockin and Tveitmee Unmcved.
Z The sentence OF Herbert s. Hockin,
sermed the Iago of the conspiracy,
and the sentence Of Tveitmoe was re-
. &eiyed by each Of them without an ex-
spression. Eugene A. Clancy, OF San
Trancisco, and J. E. Munsey. OF Salt
Make City, both Of whom were charged
with assisting in the escape Of James
fB. Mcnamara from the scene OF his
crime at Los Angeles. also received
their sentences in silence. >
When the court issued a general in
Mutation TO any of the men to state
what reasons they had. II any. why
sentences should not be pronounced
Ryan, zoo. remained silent.
s Steps toward appeals to the United
States Circuit Court Of Appeals In be-
1half OF all the prisoners already have
tbeen taken. Chester II. krum, with
sother counsel, appeared before Judge
Henderson late to-day to arrange for