The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-12-28

holding out" on the pay Of the dy :
uamiters: II was he who was said to
have caused quarrel In the ranks :,
of the McNamaras and McManlgal' :
and il was he who finally was
charged with "betraying for his ow"
gain those with whom he once
associated and with whom he was
lhlated in the iron workers union
| Graz haired and old beyond his
years sat Frank NJ. Ryan, president
Of the iron workers union. by vir-
tue of which office he was a leader
IA national labor circles. with sea-
IN the councils Of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor.
i McManigal. the self-confessed dy
} ramiter, for weeks occupied the VIII
! ness stand, relating, calmly, decis-
lively and without any apparent con-
c,rn for himself a narrative OF Vio-
: !cnco seldom eQualled.
E and what were the antecedents
: of this trial?
i. Back in the summer Of 1905 dy-
I Mantle was found at New Haven
: Conn. on a job on which nOn-union
J. vorkmen were employed. Later the
!. iron workers union called strike
i on several contractors. and the
strike became general. That was
ID the beginning. according to the gov
t. eminent, and it spread until NC
lie Samara organized a "dynamit'ng
in rev" Altogether 100 explosions
,e occurred, those at Los Angeles be'ns
ls. II ong the number
m Two striking condolences attend
OF ,t. The trial.
at One was that on Oct. l, 1911, ex'
actly one year after the Los Angeles
Zines building was blown up with
or loss Of twenty-one lives. the fedora
Is authorities at indianapolis first con
ni sidcred the possibility of prosccn
lie tions for illegal interstate shipmeh
cf dynamite and nitroglycerin OF
passenger trains. Ortie McManigaI
confession, obtained after he and tn
.dy Mcnamara brothers had been arrest
IT. cd, implicated others as having nc
ri,. tually carried explosives In suitcase
ON trains. or as having entered INT
ON a conspiracy This Indicated,
ore district Attorney Charles w. Miller
do opiniop. the necessity for gran
,yy iary investigation. Indianapolis W;
ness the headquarters of John }. McN
ms. nara. secretary Of the iron worker
an union, and The point at whlch,
tion was charged, the conspiracy was
vii tered into and from which the G
and tloeives were carried.
s,,J Another coincidence was that t
lis trial began on Oct. |, lal2. the 81
thc ond anniversary of the Times
= of rlosion. The federal grand ju
An otter several months investigate
returned indictments against nr
;, , four union labor oflicials. Bef
,arv the defense began its case this nu
I,rs ter had been reduced to forty-'
o,vv on account of various eliminate
, no. As a motive for the crimes char
ms. the government referred to
s,v strike against employers of n
: the rnion labor, consisting of brio
r.,od yiaduct and building cOntrac
yis. who maintained an "opcn shop
< in Icy, employing workmen regard
,n,rv ct whether they belonged to
rs. rnion or not. This strike never
With been called OF. It was alleged
ia. warfare waged by the VI
those spread all over the country
,ings. violence was resorted to. or. as
rela- stated. "picketing spread to
rows ging, slugging to dynamite, and
10 de- Mantle to nitroglycerin."
,f at Mcnamara, at the headquarte
,ictur- the union in Indianapolis. alth
build, lated named by witnesses as tn
s,udi- tive perpetrator of the explo!
Y fill was then unsuspected by the
testi- tractors. But the advent OF Nc
pn the igal and James B. Mcnamara.
,tacled er Of the union secretary, as
omar larly hired dynamiters. workin
Tveit- der John Us direction, and. a
Manigal charges. with Ho
m the leadership. the explosions beca
strayed bold as to arouse suspicion tha
I apart were the work of an organized
of the Detectives already had been
ded by ing on the case when the kill
uld not tw enty-one people in Los Ange
$ Hook a bomb set OF at 1 o'clock
no pro- CONTINUED on Page ~
xxxaxs s6-A-
-. t..zsse. :. e Z - : = -