The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-01
Many Present and Former
Union Officials Must Elk
plain Their Activities.
ECHO LOS ANGELES CASE
y. s. Senator John w. Kern
Will be Chief Counsel for
the Defendants.
Associated Press Dispatch.

Associated Press Dispatch.
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 3O.--The
accused dynamite plotters" Will
face trial tomorrow.
AS an echo of the blowing up o.
the Los Angeles Times building
shortly after / o'clock on the morn
ing Of Oct. /, 1910, when 21 personf
were killed, fifty-one men will be
brought into court 10 determine be-
fore federal jury whether as the
government charges they partici
pated in widespread dynamite con
spiracy which continued for more
than FIVE years and of which the
Los Angeles explosion was only q
part.
ALTHOUGH the Mcnamara brother
were included among those indictei
they will not appear, as they al
ready are serving sentences in E
prison in California. But many Of
their associates, including Frank M
Ryan, president Of the Internationa
Association of Bridge and Structural
Ironworkers and Herbert S. Hockin,
who has taken John J. Mcnamara =
place as secretary-treasurer of the
union, viii be tried.
Ironworkers' 0ffic ais.
Most Of the defendants are pres
ent or former officials of the IRON
workers union, which maintains in
Indianapolis the headquarters fro
which the McNamaras and Others
are alleged To-. have carried on the
conspiracy to blow UP bridges, Via
ducts and buildings under construc-
tion by nonunion men.
John T. Butler of Buffalo, N. Y,
first vice president of the union, and
Michael j. Young, of Boston, and
Philip A. Cooley, of New Orleans
members of the executive board, are
among the most prominent of the
other defendants. The list also in
cludes William X. Benson, former
president of the Detroit Federation
of Labor, and local officials Of two
other unions.
Letters, already embodied in an
indictment and made public, are tt
be used by the government to sup
port its contention that the officials
at Indianapolis carried on an exten-
sive correspondence in locating
@'jobs" that were to be blown up and
to which dynamite or nitroglycerine
was to be carried.
The governments charges do not
directly involve the question Of
crime in committing the explosions
but concern the transportation of ex.
plosives on passenger trains or 9th
ersise In violation of the interstate
regulations.
United States Senator John w
Kern is to be the chief counsel fol
the defendants. District Attorney
Charles w. Miller and Clarence
Nichols, his assistant, who prepared
the case before the grand jury. vii
appear for the government, Judge
Albert B. Anderson will be on The
bench.
Defendants Busy.
For several years prior to the Lo!
y Angeles disaster detectives had beer
at work on more than 100 explosion!
which were scattered from Massa
chusetts to the Pacific coast. Th'
explosions were directed agains
work finder construction by EN-
ployers of nonunion labor and chief
ly against members of the Nationa
Erectors' Association, which hat
broken off relations with the union
Outside Of this list of explosions
the government alleges it has Sc
cured evidence among others from
three chief sources. These are
From great bundles of correspond
ence taken in a raid on the iron
workers international headquarters
covering the period when John j
Mcnamara was active secretary
treasurer and when he is alleged Il
have been voted $1,000 month 70
expenses for which he was require,
to give no accounting.
From the confession of Ortie Z
McManigal, confessed dynamiter an,
accomplice of the McNamaras, VIII
is to be witness for the govern
ment.
From a record of conversational IL
Ryan's office, secured by stenog
raphers who were concealed in an
other room and had a telephone In
Btrument hidden under Ryan's desk