New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-27
UN|ON|SM OR DYNAMITE,
ALLEGED LABOR WARNING
"You'II Find 1t a Great Deal
Cheaper to Yield, Contractor
SWearS He Was Told.
BUFFALO PLANT HEARD
Non Union Firm Suffered Three
Explosions, Says Official,
After Admonition That
1t Would Be Sorry"

indianapolis. Nov. 26.--As tending 10
show the implication Of labor union Of
/ ficials in plots the government introduced
at the trial Of the alleged dynamite con-
spirators to-day testimony that explO-
sions on non-union iron work followed the
refusal Of contractors to unionize their
jobs after personal visits by some of the
defendants.
Before two charges of dynamite eXplod-
ed on a bridge In st. Louis on August 9,
1908, John T. Garrett, president of q con-
struction firm, testified that he was visited
by John II. Barry Of the local ironwork-
ers union. Barry wanted me TO union
ize the job" asserted Garrett You'll
find It great deal cheaper, for you know
what will happen, he said. 81 told him
suspected he was going to dynamite the
/ job and he had better be careful. 1t was
/ blown up later"
Examined by Chester Krum, counsel for
Barry, Garrett said that the union official,
referring to dynamting, declared The
didn't do that kind OF business"
Wallace Marshal testified that in putting
UP a job at French Lick Ind. he had
bttH FiSlltu ny IIFb Dllfl man. ulilOIl
business agent. Sherman told me had
better unionze the job said Marshal,
but ! lost my temper and told him ]
would have nothing to do with the MUIR
derous dynamiting ironworkers. An ex-
| plosion occurred In March, 1911"
Says Explosions Followed Warnings.
+. ]. Mccain said that his firm suf-
! fered three explosions on jobs at Buffalo
! in 1909 and one in Erie, Penn, in 1911,
after he had been visited by John 7. But
| Ter. vlce-president Of the international As
ISOLATION Of Bridge and Structural Iron
workers. Butler told us we would be
sorry when we refused to deal with the
union" said Mccain.
| Senator John W. Kern, chief counsel
! for the defendants, cross-examined Nc
Manigal with the intention of showing
| that the dynamiter kept as secluded as
/ possible while on his trips Of destruction
When went to Boston to see Michael
J. Young. the Jronworkers' business agent
about blowing up the tower in the mu-
nicipal building at Springfield, Mass, in
April 1911, Young called me down. said
McManigal He said he had told J. J.
Mcnamara / was not TO stop at Boston ;
that Young didn't want to be seen with
me-"
Didn't Mcnamara tell you always to
see as few people as possible, and didn't
/ YOU receive your instructions from Nc
| Namara alone?" asked Senator Kern.
| From Mcnamara and Herbert 5. Hook
! in. Once, when Hockin instructed me, /
told him il I was caught We all would
| be caught"
Before two explosions on viaduct at
! Springfield, Ill. on March s. 1911, when
! $4,000 damage was done. Patrick F.
Murphy testified he was visited by Fred
I Spears. A union official and told by Spears
that if the job was not unionized II would
| be put on the bum"
When the defence objected District At
torney Miller said 1T has been shown
that Spears, though not indicted, was a
co-conspirator, and ought to have been
! indicted"
| The court overruled the objection, and
| the witness said he understood Spears
threatened the use Of dynamite. Mr..
Miller said j. 3. Mcnamara actually blew
! up the job