The Cairo bulletin., 1912-09-24
81 union MEN
DEFENDANTS IN
DYNAMITE TRIAL
Are Charged With Completely in So
~ .,
Called Recent Conspiracy
Over Nation
TWO OF NUMBER IN PEN
Basis Of Governments Entire Fight
Is Confession Of Or,ie
Mechanical
Associated Press Dispatch.

Associated Press Dispatch.
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 3D.
Charged with completely in the So
called "dynamiting conspiracy
ifty-one men, present or former of.
ficials of labor unions, are to ap.
oear for trial before Judge Albert B
Anderson and jury in the Fedora,
curt of this district on October l.
Indicted under a Federal statute
eorbiddihg the transportation of OK
''osives on passenger trains, the de-
'endants are alleged to have beer
oncerned In a nationwide plot to
destroy the property of contrac tors
Employing nonunion ironworkers
eliminating In the explosion of tn
Los Angeles Times building, which
cost twenty-one lives.
Fifty-four were indicted by the
Grand Jury in its report of February
last but of this number John ]
and James B. Mcnamara are in Sar
uentin prison, Cal, and J. j. Nc
Fray, a former member Of the ex-
ecutive board of the International
Association Of Bridge and Structure
ron Workers, has not been found
by the federal authorities
Most of the defendants are or have
cen connected with the iron work
ers' association, which, since 1905
'as been engaged in a struggle witt
he National Erector's Association
Il organization of structural steel
nd iron contractors employing non.
zion workmen. Members of this
Employers association suffered lose
rom more than one hundred explo
ions from 1905 to 1911.
Following the arrest of John J
J 'cNamara, ecretary-treasure Of
he ironworkers association, at 1T
eadquarters in this city, and thu
rrest of James B. Mcnamara and
rite e. McManigal In Detroit, In
onnection with the Los Angeles
Times explosion, presentments were
made to the federal grand jury o.
his district that officials of the iror
workers. association and other labor
MONS had been concerned in con-
piracy to intimidate employers OF
lnorganized labor by systematic
estruction of their property,
Confession is Basis.
Ortie McManigal's confession, In
which he related that he had beer
employed By the Mcnamara broth
rs and Herbert S. Hockin, actinf
scretary-treasurer of the Iron
Workers association, to dynamite
ridges and buildings in course OF
construction by non-union con
FACTORS was the basis of the govern
nents inquiry He is to be the
ptincipal witness for THE govern
ment In the forthcoming trial. A
iass OF letters and other records,
seized In a raid on the offices of the
ronworkers' association, also will be
onered as evidence of a general con
piracy secretly to convey dynamite
and nitro-glycerine from coast to
;oast in a campaign against en-
,loyers OF unorganized ironworkers
Most prominent among the de-
endants are Frank M. Ryan, presi
lent of the International Associa.
ion Of Bridge and Structural Iron
workers; Herbert S. Hockin, actine
'ecretary-treasure and the alleged
'ead of the "dynamiting crew."
Tchn T. Butler, of Buffalo, first vice
resident, and Michael J. Young, OF
BOSTON and Phillip A. Cooley, of
New Orleans, members of the execu-
i've board.
Business agents and secretaries OF
'ocal ironworkers' unions through
tut the country, alleged to have
'een implicated In the illegal trans
'ortation of explosives from state te
tate, make up the greater part Of
he list of defendants but Officials
II other unions also are indicted
they are Olaf A. Tveitmee, secre
AIRY Of the Building Trades Council
u California; William X. Benson
'ormer president of the Detroit Fed
of Labor; Clarence e. Dowd
organizer for the International AS
'ociation of .Machinists; Hiram
Zine, OF Muncie, Ind. organizer fol
ne Association of Carpenters ant
Ioiners. and Sturgeon p. Meadows
business agent for the carpenters
and Joiners' unions of Indianapolis
United States Senator John w