The Sentinel=record., 1912-02-15
DYNAMITERS
 ARRESTED
FORTY OF FtFTY.FoUR CHARGED WITH coMPLictTY IN DINA
 HITTING ARE ARRESTED.
International Union Refuses 10 Make Bond and Some of Them Are un-
 able to Make the Surety Re. quired by the Court.

Indianapolis, Feb. Within a few hours today federal government rep resentatives in cities from New York to Denver arrested at least 40 of the 54 unita labor men indicted in con- nection with the gigantic dynamite conspiracy.
 t is said all indicted would he un- der arrest within the next IS hours
 Practically the entire official staff of the International Association Of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers including the chief officers. members of the executive board. gnd about 20 business agents, and former busi- ness agents, were taken into custody.
 Those included Prank NJ, Ryan, president; John F Htrtfft- rf--f'-ffalo, N, r., first vice president, and Her bert s. Hockin, second vice president and successor of J. J. McNamara, as secretary-treasurer, and each of these mon were required to give si0,000 bond for his appearance for arraign. ment here with all the other defend ants on March l2.
 By it's action the government reveal ed dhe identities of the men whom it charges with being the accomplces of the McNamaras and Ortie McMan- igal in the dynamite plots embracing almost 100 explosions which were be. gun 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 and an attempt to blow up President Tafts special train at santa Barbara Cal, last october
 Fourteen of those indicted Ike each required to furnish sI0,06o ho2ds and 40 are each required to fl/nisih s5,- 000 bonds, making an aggregate bond requffed of s240,OO0. Some of those whom the government was unable to find today were reported to have dis appeared through fear of inability to get bond. It was intimated that the iron workers association would be unable to furnish security for its in. dicted members.
 Ernest c. w Basey, former busi ness agent of the Indianapolis Iron Workers union, and Edward Clark, former business agent of the Cincln- natl unica, who were brought here following their arrest at Cincinnati, were unable to obtain bali and were taken to jail When Clark appealed to Secretary Hockin of the Iron Work ers' association for aid, Hockin ad. vised the United States marshal te ln- form Clark the international assoeia. ton could do nothing for him and re- ferred him to his local union.
 Hockin said it would be impossible for the international association to take the burden of supplying bail for many of the men arrested
 Immediately upon his arrest, Presi dent Ryan addressed statement to union labor men throughout the coun- try calling upon them to believe in hfs innocence and in the janoeeuce of his co-defendants.
 United States District Attorney Charles W Miller intimated tonight ahe federal grand jury which return ed the indictments might be recalled to resume investigation of the con. spiracy
 After the defendants are arraigned on March 12 and the trials proceed. said Mir. Miller we have reason to anticipate new aspects. Information Is expected to develop at the trials indicating the complieity of many more than those indicted now We do not assert that we already have all those implicated This is, however. a beginning"
 The indictment on which all the men were arrested was made public tonight It charges all tho 54 men with conspiracy to violate the stat utes forbldding the carrying of ex- plosives on passenger trains and de tails 47 transportation charges as overt acts and names ortle E. Me Manigal, the McNamaras or Herbert s Hockin in each and they specify the part taken by ots;sr defendants.
 All defendants are named in each Of the conspiracy charges although his active participation may have been one of transportation only,