The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-12-31

tarins, or having entered into a.
conspiracy, This indicated. IN Dis
trlct Attorney Charles ". Miller's
opinion, the necessity for a grand
Jury Investigation. Indianapolis was
the headquarters of John j. Nc
NaMara, secretary Of the Iron Work
ers union, and the point at which. it
was charged, the conspiracy WAS en-
tered into and from HE til. ,xDlO-
SlVeS were carried.
Another coincidence Hasthat IN. tria,
Dc gan on October /, 1872, the second
anniversary of the "Tines' explosion.
me federal grand jury, after several
months Investigations. returned IN
ulcllnents agalnst "a union labor ofi-f
Gals. Before the defense began its
cASe this number had been reduced to
81 on account Of various e~liminatiOnS.
As a motive for the crimes charged
the government referred to the strike
asalnst employers Of ~non-union labor.
consisting Of bridge, viaduct and
tullding contractors who maintained
an open shop policy, employing
Norklnen regardless of whether they
belonged TO the union or not. This
strike never has been called eff. 1t
was alleged that a warfare waged by
the union spread all over the country
until violence was reSorted to, or, as
was stated, "plcketlng spread 10 slug
glng, smuggling to dynamite, and dyna-
mite to nitroglycerin."
Mcnamara, AT the headquarters of
the union in indianapolis, although
later named by witnesses as the active
perpetratOr OF the explosions, was
then u~nsuspected by the contractors.
But the advent OF MECHANICAL and
James -. Mcnamara. brother Of the
union secretary, as regularly hired
dynamiters, working under John Us
direction. and. as NcNTanigal charges,
with Hockin's leadership, the explo-
SiCnS became so bold as to arouse Sus-
piciOn that they were the work OF an
organized band.
Detectives already had been work
iEg on the case when the killing Of p
PEOPLE in Los Angeles by q bomb set
of at ! O'Clock in the morning, show
ed that the desperation Of The dyna-
I,iters had reached the murder stage.
Much of the evidence that was pre-
clude at Los Angeles by the pleas of
guilt by the Mcnamara brothers came
out here. Federal Judge Albert b.
Anderson ruled that while the specific
charges were illegal Transportation
all other evidence relative to cxplo-
sions might be offered as showing a
p%,otiNe. Me testimony was that the
destruction Of the .'Times' building
was not strictly 4 part Of the am
paiSn against n~On-uniof iron and
steel work, but%was done in an effort
to unioniZe various trades in Los An
gelcs. James b. Mcnamara, Vic set
the bomb, was a printer. Witnesses
stated that Mcnamara afterwards ex-
pressed little regret that y people
were killed, and, in fact. expressed
disappointment that he had not kill
ed Gen. Harrison Gray otis, proprie-
tor of the Times hat the GynanliteI
Was sent to the coast at the soilclta-
ton Of TNeitlnCc, a recognized union
- --1 +l~-+ - So.
nished David Caplan and NJ. A
J Schmidt. who were also indicted foI
| murder, but who never We're captured
I All the 100 explosions came n fol
5 scrutiny by the jury here, and ths
field Of operations extended from Bos-
!, ton to Los Angeles.
! who caused those explosions.
vas the question before the jury.
Broadly the charges We're hat j. j
McNamara began them and though,
them an effective means OF fighting
! "Open shop" contractors. Make the
damage as heavy as possible NcMan-
iyal said always We're his Instructions
! Hundreds of thousands OF d"liaTs
! worth of property was said to have
:, been destroyed. Finding the main.
t.rance Of a hired ~"dynamiting crew
: cost money. Mcnamara IS alleged t
have appealed TO the union for lands
ana in his way. the government
: charged. others became lnlhlcdted
For instance. the government set gu
that the union executive boald de
cided at last 70 ALLOW McNalnar:
$1,000 q month, for which he Woult
e be REQUIRED to give no accounting
Letters also We're Written which. IN
= government asserted, showed certain
business agents. recognizing the 'uy
: r:njtine crew as q regular iilStltu
u ton. sent word as TO what Jobs Snoul'
: b. blown up. Al the indlcted ON
> oials were declared by then letters I
l. be "linked together IN guilt.
That WAS the case the goNernmenl
! at the opening Of the trial. }sserte
y it had to place before the Jury
IS i vas stated that the trl"i, !
tho npnlber Of defendants, j
i the fact that the defendants WEI
/, allied With labor unions. n II
/ nationwide extent q n. tohspiTlS
and in its ramiications Was uhpTete
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