Arizona republican., 1912-10-01
Fifty-one Men Will Be Brought Into Court To- day to Face Govern ment's Charges of Con- spiracy.
MOSTLY OFFICIALS OF IRONWORKERS' UNION
The M'Namaras Were Also Indicted But Will Not Appear As They Are AL ready Serving Prison Sentences.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Sept. 3O.-The accused dynamite plotters" will face trial tomorrow.
 As an echo Of the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building shortly after 1 o'clock on the morning of Oct. l, 1910, when 21 persons were killed. fifty-one men will be brought into court to determine before a federal jury whether as the government charges, they participaed' in a wide spread dynamite conspiracy which continued for more than five years and of which the Los Angeles explosion was only a part.
 Although the McNamara brothers were included among those indicted, they will not appear, as they already are serving sentences in a prison in California But many of their asso- ciates, including Frank NJ Ryan, pres ldent of the international association of bridge and structural iron workers, and Herbert $. Hockin, who has taken John J. McNamara's place as secreta- ry-treasurer of the union, will be tried. Most of the defendants are present or former officials of the ironWorkers' l union, which maintains in Indianapolis | the head quarters from which the Me Namara's and others are alleged to | have carried on the conspiracy to blow
 up bridges, viaducts and buildings un- 1 der construction by non-union men. John T. Butler, Buffalo, N Y, first vice president of the union and
 Michael J. Young. of Boston. and Phil l ip A Cooley, of New Orleans, members
 or the executive board, are among the
 most prominent of the other defen- dants. The list also includes William
 K. Benson, former president of the De- | troit federation of labor, and local of ficials of two other unions.
 Letters, already embodied in an in- dictment and made public, are to be
 used by the government to support its | contention that the officials at Indian | apolis carried on an extensive core | spondence in locating jobs that were
 to be blown up and to which dynamite
 or nitroglycerin was to be carried | The governments charges do not di-
 rectly involve the question of crime ir
 committing the explosions, but concerr l
 passenger trains or otherwise in vio- | latiOn of the interstate regulations. ! United States Senator John w. Kerr
 is to be the chief counsel for the de dendants District Attorney Charles w. Miller and Clarence Nichols, hi:
 assistant, who prepared the case be-
 fore the grand jury, will appear fol
 the government. Judge Albert B. An. derson will be on the bench
 | For several years prior to the To: | Angeles disaster detectives had beer ! at work on more than 100 explosion: which were scattered from MaSsachu setts to the Pacific coast. The eX | plosions were directed against Worl under construction by employees O. nonunion labor and chiefly agains members of the national erecOrs' as
 sociation, which had broken off re1a
 tions with the union.
 l Outside of this list of explosions, th'
 dence among others from three chic | sources. These are:
 From great bundles of cOrrespon dence taken in a raid on the ironwork
 CTS international headquarters, cover | ing the period when John P. J. Nc l Namara was active secretary treasur | CT and when he is alleged to have beer voted s1,O00 a month for expenses fol
 which he was required to give no ac | counting.
 | From the confession of Ortie E. Nc Manigal, confessed dynamiter and ac complice of the McNamaras, who is t | be a witness for the government.
 From a record of conversations il
 Ryan's office, secured by stenogra phers who were concealed in anothe
 room and had a telephone instrumen | hidden under Ryan's desk.