The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-09-23
Alleged against Fifty One
Men in the Famous Dy=
Mantle Cases.
NATION WIDE p I Q I
VIII Be Gone into before
Judge Anderson Sitting
in indianapolis.

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Sept. 30
charged with. compl!ciy in the so
calpsd .dynamiting conspiracy" fifty
one men, present or former officials
Of Ia55r unions, are to appear for
trial before Judge Albert B. Ander=
son and a jury in the federal court
Of this district on october l.
t1nd5csed under federal statute
forbidding the transportation Of ex-
plosfves on passenger trains, the de-
feudants are alleged TO have been con-
cerned In natiou=wide plot to des-
troy the property OF contractors em-
moving non-union ironwOrkers, cul-
.minating IN the explosion in the Los
Angeles Times building, which cost
twenty-one lives.
Fifty-four were indicted by the
grand jury in it's report OF February
6 last, but Of this number John J. and
James B. Mcnamara are in San Quen-
tin prison. Cal, and ], J. Nlccray, a
former member OF the executive
board OF the International Associa-
ton of Bridge and Structural Iron
workers, has net been found BY the
federal authorities.
Most OF the defendants are or have
been connected with the ironworkess
association, which since 1905, has
been engaged in a struggle with the
National Erectors Association, an or
Eanization of structural steel and
iron contractors employing non-union
workmen. Members OF This employ
ersr association suffered loss from
more than one hundred explosions
from 1868 to 1919.
Following the arrest of John J. Nc
Nanara, ecretary-treasurer Of the
ironworkers' association, at its head
quarters in this city and the arrest
of James B. and ortie E. MECHANICAL
in Detroit, in connection with the
Los Angeles Times explosion. present
ments were made to the federal grand
jury OF this district that officials of
the ironworkers' association and 9TH
er labor unions had been concerned
in a conspiracy to intimidate employ
ers Of unorganjzed labor by a syste-
matte destruction of their property.
ortie McMan5gars confession. il
which he related that he had beer
employed by the Mcnamara brother.
and Herbert S. Hcck:r, acting secre
:ary-treasurer of the ironwoI kers
association, to dynamite bridges ant
buildings in course of constructio.
by non-union contractors, was thu
basis of the governments inquiry. H
is to be the principal witness for tn
government in the forthcoming trial
a mass of letters and other records
seized in raid on tho Offices of tn;
'-onworkers' association, also viii
BE offered as evidence of genera
conspiracy secretly to convey sdyna
mite and nitro-gTycerine from coas
o coast in a campaign against EN-
2loyers Of unorgaEized ironworkers
Most prominent among the defend
ants are Frank NJ. Ryan, president OF
The International Association OF
Bridge and Structural IroDworkers;
Herbert S. Hockin. acting secretary
treasurer and the alleged head of the.
-dynamiting crew.; John T. Butler
of Buffalo. first vice president, and
Michael J. Young. of Boston, and Phil
lip A. Cooley. of New Orleans. mem
Sers of the executive board.
Business agents and secretaries OF
local ironworkers unions throughout
the country, alleged 20 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 X. Benson, former president
OF the Detroit Federation OF Labor;
Clarence E. Dowd, organizer for the
International Association OF Machin=
lists: Hiram Cline. of Nfuncie, Ind,
organizer for the Association of Car.
penters and Joiners, and Sturgeon p.
Meadows. business agent for the car
2enters and joiners' unions Of In
dianapolis.
United states Senator John W.
Kern Is to be chief counsel for the de-
Sendants and the government viii be
represented by District Attorney
Charles W. Miller and his assistant,
Clarence Nichols. who conducted the
grand jury investigation.