Arizona republican., 1912-12-29
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 INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 2S. - The United States government with stern and decisive swiftness today took into possession thirty eight union labor officials convicted of conspiracy ir promoting explosions on non-union work throughout the iand, aiding IT the destruction of the Times building which brought loss Of life in Los An geles, and carrying on a reign O! terror" declared to be unparalleled IT the history of the country
 Almost the entire executive staft ol the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers was con- yicted. Only two officials of that union now remain out of jail At the head of the list of those convicted stands Frank NJ. Ryan, president Il was this union, with it's 12,OO0 mem hers of which John J. McNamara was the secretary treasurer. while ne con ducted the dynamitings out or Whlcr the present convictions grew.
 T0day's convictions coming on a scale unprecedented in a federal court was the aftermath or the killing oi twenty-one persons in the blowing ul of the Los Angeles Times building or October 1, 1910, of which McNamara and his brother, James B., the Times .dvnamiter. were convicted in Califor- nia. have made of Ryan and his fel- low officials, former associates of Me Namara, federal prisoners awaiting sentence
 lf filiated with the Iron Workers union but were found guilty of joining tho Iron Workers officials in promOune the conspiracy. One of these, Olaf A Tveitmoe San Francisco, is the recog- nized labor leader of the Pacific coast the testimony against whom was tha he aided in causing the explosions II Los Angeles. wrote letters about then and referred to them as "Christma' presents" after the fatal explosion il Los Angeles and aided in concealins evidence wanted in California. He i' secretary of the California building trades council.
 Hiram R. Kline, of Muncie, Ind. tn other member of another union con victed. was formerly an organizer o the United Brotherhood of Carpenter and Joiners of Detroit.
 Another result of the Los Angele explosion came in the conviction O J. E. Munsey, charged by the gov ernment with harboring James B. Me Namara for two weeks at Salt Lax City. while the dynamiterS were flee ing from the scene of the crime
 Many of those convicted wer charged with knowing only of loca explosions on the work of contractor who refused to recognize the unior but were thus brought into the gen eral conspiracy.
 Ryan, John T. Butler. vice. -presiden of the union. of Buffalo; Eugene 4 Clancy of San Francisco, Frank ( Webb. of New York; Michael Young. of Boston; Phillip A. CoOle! of New Orleans; Henry w. Legleitne, or Denver: and Charles x. Beum. c Minneapolis, were all convicted c having appropriated out of the union fund 5000 a month. which McNamar paid for the explosions.
 Herbert s. Hockin who resigned a secretary of the union only a fe' RO. the .Iago of the conspiracy" ahVin helped instigate the plots and em blowing Ortie F. McManigal to carr them out, while afterwards "betrayin his fellow conspirators' to promot his own interests. stands among tn most prominent of those convicte' He figured almost daily in the test mony
 sixteen minutes was all the tim required by the court to receive tf jury, read the verdict, thirty eigt guilty and two not guilty" and dis miss the jurors
 The verdict brought to an end u history of the three months "dynami conspiracy" trial It meant, that e2 cept in the cases. of Herman c. Sci fert, of Milwaukee, and Daniel Bucl ley. of Davenport, Iowa, who are u two men out of the forty to be aC judged mot guilty" that the goverI ments charges about a dynamite pF extending over a period of six year have been sustained. It meant al! that thirty wives, many of whom wi their children patiently sat throus the long drawn out ordeal. are at la to be separated from their husband
 Important details which yet rema in consequence of the verdicts are tl punishments to be imposed on t thirty eight men by Federal Jud Albert B. Anderson, on Monday at
 o'clock.
 The prisoners who receive terr longer than one year will be taken
 
 Kansas. A special train will go by secret route. The details as to th' leaving Indianapolis or their arriN