The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-09-26
Alleged against Fifty : One
Men in the Famous Dy-
Mantle Cases.
NATIONWIDE PLOT
Will Be Gone into before
Judge Anderson Sitting
in Indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Sept. "a
Charged with completely in the so
called "dynamiting conspiracy" fifty
one men, present or former officials
of labor unions; are TO appear for
trial before Judge Albert b. Ander-
lson and jury in the federal court
OF this district on October'1.
indicted under federal statute
forbidding the transportation of ex-
plosives on passenger trains, the de-
PENDANTS are alleged to have been con-
cerne1 ~ nationwide plot to des-
troy the property of contractors em-
ploylng non-union ironworkers, cul-
lminating in tile explosion in the Los
Angeles Times building, which cost
twepty.one lives.
Fifty-four were indicted by the
grand jury in its report OF February
6 last, but Of this number John i. and
James 3. Mcnamara are in San QUEEN
tin prison, CAL, and ]. ]. Mccray, q
former member of the executive
board ofa.the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
workers, has not been found by the
federal authorities.
Most of the defendants are or have
been connected with the, ironworkeTs'
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-unlon
workmen. Members of Fhis employ
efs' association suffered loss from
more than one hundred explosions
from 1905 to 1871.
Following the arrest of John j. Nc
Namara, observation-disclosures of the
ironwor1ers' association, at its head
quarters in this city and the arrest
of James B. and ortie q. McManigal
in Detroit, in connection with the
Los Angeles Times explosion, present
mehts were made to the federal grand
jury OF this district that officials of
'the ironworkers association and 9TH
er labor unions, had ,,heen. concerned
IN conspiracy to intimidate employ
ers of unorganized labor by syste-
matte destruction of 5their property.
ortie McManigals confession, in
(which he related that he had been
employed by the Mcnamara brothers
land Herbert S. Hockin, acting secre-
stary-treasurer. of the tronwol kers
association to dynamite bridges and
buildings in course of construction
by non-union contractors, was the
basis of the governments inquiry. He
Is to be the principal witness for the
government in the forthcoming trial.
a mass of letters and other records,
seized in raid on the offices OF the
ronworkerS association, also will
be offered as evidence of a general
conspiracy secretly to convey ,dyna-
mite and nltro-glycerlne from coast
o coast in campaign against EN-
ployers of unorganized ironworkers.
Most prominent among the defend
ants are Frank NJ. Ryan, president Of
the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Iropworkers;
Herbert s. Hockin, acting secretary
treasurer and the alleged head of the
"dynamiting crew.; John r. Butler,
Of Buffalo. first vice president, and
Michael j. Young, of Boston, and Phil
lip A. Cooley of New Orleans, mem
hers of the executive board.
Business agents and secretaries of
local ironworkers unions throughout
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 list
OF defendants, but officials of other
unions also are indicted. They are
Olaf A, Tveitmoe, secretary of the
Building Trades Council Of California;
William K. Benson, former president
OF the Detroit Federation of Labor;
Clarence e. Dowd, organizer for the
International Association of MachIn-
lists; Hiram Cline; of Muncie, Ind,
organizer for the Association of Car
penters and Joiners; and spurgeonaP.
Meadows business agent for the car
penters and ioiners' unions Of In
dianapolis.
United States Senator John w.
Kern Is. to be chief counsel for the de-
PENDANTS and the government will be-
represented by District Attorney
charles W. Miller and his assistant,
Clarence Nichols, who conducted the
grand jury investigation.