Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-02-22
OFFICIALS AND FORMER OFF,.
GALS OF IRON WORKERS,
UNION ARE DETAINED ALL
OVER COUNTRY.
RESULTS OF DYNAMITE
INVESTIGATION
Prisoners Accused Of conspirinu
Against "open Shop Contractors"
Frank M. Ryan and Herbert /,
Hockin, Chief Officers,
Held in Case.

Held in Case.
indianapolis, Feb. Is The United
States government caused the arrest
Of almost all of the 81 men indicted
In the alleged dynamite conspiracy
cases. Bits @a
1t took into custody within few
hours practically the entire staff of
the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Workers, in.
GLIDING the chief officers, members of
the executive board and about 20 bust
ness agents and former business
agents.
These included Frank M. Ryan, the
president; John T. Butler of Buffalo,
N. Y.,Ysthe first vice president, and
Herbert S.. Hockin, the second vice
president and successor of j. j.. Nc
Namara as secretary treasurer, and
each OF these men was required to
give $4,000 bond for his appearance
forF arraignment here with all the
other defendants on March IL.
BY it's action the government re-
vealed the Identities of the men whom
1t charges with being the accomplices
Of the McNamaras and Ortie McMan.
gal in the dynamite plots, embrac
ing almost 100 explosions which were
begun in Massachusetts in 1905, which
were scattered over the country for
six years, and which resulted in the
wrecking of the Los Angeles Times
building with a loss of 81 lives, and
an attempt to blow up a bridge over
which President Taft, in a special
rain, was to pass near Santa Bar
oara, CAL, last October
Fourteen of those indicted are each
required to furnish $4,000 bond, and
10 are each required to furnish $4,000
bond, making an aggregate bond re.
quired of $4,000.
Immediately upon his arrest Presi.
dent Ryan addressed statement to
lniOn labor men throughout the coun-
Try calling upon them to believe in his
innocence and in the innocence of his
codefendants.
The Indictment on which all the
men were arrested was made public
last night. It charges all the 81 men
with conspiracy to violate the statutes
torbidding the carrying of explosives
On passenger trains and details Al
Iransportations, charged as overt acts,
and names Ortie 3. McManigal, or
Herbert S. Hockin, in each act, but
does not specify the part taken by
the other defendants.
All of the defendants are named in
each Of the 80 indictments and accord
ing to District Attorney Miller, SEN
fences may be imposed for each of the
! Dffenses. It is the contention of the
government that each of the defen-
lants was guilty in each of the con-
spiracy charges, although his active
participation may have been in one
transportation only
There are IA indictments charging
Dvert acts and IA charging unconsum-
mated acts of conspiracy. Another in
dictment of "a counts charges all the
defendants as being principals in the
transportation of nitro-glycerin.
A further Indictment Of "a counts
charges McManigal and ]. B. ,McNa-
mara with physical transportation Of
| nitro glycerin and all the other code
| PENDANTS with abetting.
| Two other remaining indictments,
| with 16 counts each, charge all the de-
PENDANTS with being principals in the
transportation of dynamite and with
having aided McManigal and J. B. Nc
Namara.
Altogether, the indictments contain
! 1873 counts against each of the defend
ants and the penalty for any one Of
the offenses Varies from Is months to
two years in prison.
| SMty-fve OF the explosions consid-
cred in the indictments were on work
Of members of the National Erectors'
association, an organization of "open
shop" employers, and 81 explosions or
attempts were on work Of contractors
who were not members of the erectOrs'
association
Mare than 300 witnesses from Bos.
L ito Los Angeles and from Duluth to
| i eirts in Tennessee were examined.
= he Investigation was directed to the
matter c. conspiracies to commit Of.
lenses against tie laws of the United
States and the deportation of dyna-
mite and nitro 5ly Germ as defined
and made punishable by the various
acts Of congress of 1886, 1908 and 1909.
| HERRICK rs APPROVED
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