The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-02-08
80 INDICTED IN
|. DYNAMITE CASES
Forty to Fifty Labor Chiefs to be
Arrested.
NAMES ARE KEPT A SECRET
Investi cation at indianapolis Ends in
! Wholesale Charges Against Union
Leaders-March IL Is Ar
/ .... raisnment Day.

indianapolis, Ind, Feb. THE fed
eral grand jury which has been. in
yestigating the Mcnamara bomb out
RACES returned thirty-three indict-
ments before Judge Anderson.
Summonses are being prepared for
the arrest of forty or fifty labor lead
ers scattered throughout eighteen
states.
The courtroom was packed when
Herbert Nj. Glessbrenner, foreman or
the grand jury lugged the indictments
in from the jury room in two bullying
suit cases. The names Of those In
dicted were ordered suppressed.
The number of indictments does not
indicate the number OF men indicted,
as many are charged with the same
offense in blanket indictments. 1t Is
known that the history OF the McNa-
maras has been traced from the time
they exploded their first bomb. and
practically every person connected
with them in transporting dynamite,
who paid them for their crimes or had
knowledge OF their operations, has
been indicted.
Arrest All Same Hour.
March II was set as arrangement
day and clerks began the Work OF
making certified copies of the indict-
ment and preparing summonses. An
effort will be made to arrest every
man named at the same hour and
nearly every defendant is now known
to be under surveillance in different
parts of the country.
Many of the indictments center
around the activities of Ortie McManl-
gal. confessed dynamiter, and those
who went to Detroit in June, 1907, and
induced him to become a member OF
the ravaging band have been in
dicted.
Among those it is believed were
named in the report of the grand jury
are: j. j. Mcnamara, former secre-
tary treasurer of the iron workers
union: ]. b. Mcnamara and Ortie Nc
Manigal, the dynamiters; o. A. Tveit-
moe, secretary of the California Build
ing Trades council; 4. A. Clancy OF
San Francisco, former member OF the
executive board of the iron workers
union, and J. E. Munsey, business
agent Of the Salt Lake City local
union, these men now being under in
dictment in Los Angeles as result
city.
Basis of Implication.
IMPLICATED by the evidence which
the government has spent months in
examining are believed to be many
men active in the iron workers local
unions in various cities, who, although
we'll known among members OF their
own craft, are moi widely known in
the country. The list of men who will
be obliged to stand trial here, how
ever, Is thought to include several
prominent officials or ex-ottictals OF the
iron workers who are widely known In
labor union circles.
The names of the party of labor
leaders who went to Boston with Nc
Manigal in March, 1909, and showed
him how to place the deadly alarm
clock arrangement where 1t would de-
stroy an opera house were told to the
grand jury, and all are said on good
authority to have been indicted. The
same party is accused of taking Nc
Manigal to Springfield, Mass, where
they dynamited municipal building.
Peoria Explosion Investigated.
The Chicago situation was re-
hearsed before the grand jury. and the
men who dynamited a bridge at
Peoria and several pieces Of new con-
struction in Cook county are expected
to be arrested. In this connection a
conspiracy charge is made against Of
fcials of a Chicago union said 10
have pointed out the places to be dyn'
amited and TO have aided in the trans
portation of dynamite.
Names Kept Secret.
Milwaukee, Chicago, New York,
Boston, Cleveland, Peoria, San Fran
cisco, Kansas City, Omaha Pittsburg
New Orleans, Buffalo, Detroit, Phila,
delphia. Indianapolis and ST. Louis are
among the cities in which arrests are
expected, although the government has
been making an especial effort to keep
secret the names of the men in
yolyed 1t is said that the possible
connection of numerous men with the
dynamite conspiracy has been inyesti
gated, but that because of lack of sui
ficient evidence 1t was not thought
advisable to indict these men.