Las Vegas optic., 1912-09-23
HEARING in INDIANAPOLIS.
JUDGE ALBERT 2. ANDERSON
WILL ACT AS THE TRIAL
JUDGE.
ARE MOSTLY UNION men
MANY OF THE DEFENDANTS ARE
FORMER cHUMs OF THE
M'NAMARAs.

Indianapolis, Ind. Sept. 2S.--E Eharg
ed with completely in the so.called
'dynamiting conspiracy" fifty-one
men, present or former officials OF
labor unions, are to appear for trial
before Albert B. Anderson and a
jury in the federal court Of this uis.
trict on October j.
Indicted under feueral statute for.
bidding the transportation Of explo-
sives on passenger trains. the defend
ants are alleged to have been con
cerned in a nationwide plot to de-
stroy the property of contractors en-
ploying non-union ironworkrs, culmi-
mating in the explosion in the Los An
geles Times building, which cost
twenty-one lives.
Fifty-four were indicted by the
grand jury in its report Of February
6 last, but of this number John and
James B. McNamara are in San Quen-
tin prison, Cal, and ]. ]. McCray, a
former member of the executive
board Of the International Association
Of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers,
has not been found BY the federal au-.
thorities
Most of the defendants are or have
been connected with the ironworkers
association, which, since 1905. has
been engaged in a struggle with the
National Erectors' association, an Or
ganization Of structural steel and
iron contractors employing non-union
workmen. Members of this employ
err association suffered loss from
more than one hundred explosions
from 1905 to 1911.
Following the arrest of John J. Nc
Namara, secretary-treasurer Of the
ironworkers' association, at its head
quarters in this city, and the arrest
Of James B.. Mcnamara and Ortie E.
McManigal in Detroit, in connection
with the Los Angeles Times expo.
sion, presentments were made to the
federal grand jury Of this district that
officials Of the ironworkers' associa-
tion and other labor unions had been
concerned in conspiracy to intimi
date employers Of unorganized labor
by a systematic destruction Of their
property
Ortie McManigal's confession, in
which he related that he had been EN-
ployed by the Mcnamara brothers
and Herbert s. Hockin, ACTING secre
tary treasurer Of the Ironworlzers' as
sociation, to dynamite bridges and
buildings in course Of construction by
non-union contractors, was the basis
Of the governments inquiry He il
to be the principal witness for the
government In the forthcoming trial
A mass Of letters and other records
seized in a raid on the offices Of ths
Ironworkers' association, also will bs
offered as evidence of a general con
spiracy secretly to convey dynamite
and nitro-glycerin from coast to coas
In q campaign against employers q
linorganized ironworkers.
Most prominent among the defend
ants are Frank M. Ryan, president o
the international Association o
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
Herbert s. Hockin, acting secretary
treasurer and the alleged head Of th'
adynamiting crew; John 7 Butler
Of Buffalo. first vice president, an'
Michael Il Young, Of Boston, anC
Phillip A. Cooley Of New Orleans
members of the executive board.
Business agents and secretaries Q
local ironworkers unions throughou
the country. alleged to have been i'm
plicated in the illegal transportation
Of explosives from state to state
make Up the greater part Of the lis
Of defendants but officials of othe
unions also are indicted. They ar
Olaf A, Tveitmce. secretary Of tn