River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-02-22
OFFICIALS AND FORMER OFF,
GALS OF IRON WORKERS.
UNION ARE DETAINED ALL
OVER COUNTRY.
RESULTS OF DYNAMITE
INVESTIGATION
Prisoners Accused of Conspiring
Against "open Shop Contractors"
Frank M. Ryan and Herbert
Hockin, Chief Officers,
Held in Case.

Indianapolis, The United
States government caused the arrest
Of almost all of the 81 men indicted
in the alleged dynamite conspiracy
cases.
1t took into custody within a few
hours practically the entire staff of
the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Workers, in
Guiding the chief officers, members of
the executive board and about 20 bust
ness agents and former business
agents.
These included Frank M. Ryan, the
president; John T. Butler of Buffalo,
N. Y, the first vice president, and
Herbert S. Hockin, the second vice
president and successor of J. J. Nc
Namara as secretary-treasurer, and
each of these men was required to
give $4,000 bond for his appearance
for arraignment here with all the
other defendants on March IL.
BY it's action the government re-
vealed the identities of the men whom
it charges with being the accomplices
Of the McNamaras and Ortie McMan-
igal in the dynamite plots, embrace
ing almost 100 explosions, which were
begun 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 with loss of 81 lives, and
an attempt to blow up a bridge over
which President Taft, in a special
train, was to pass, near Santa Bar
bara, CAL, last October.
Fourteen of those indicted are each
required to furnish $4,000 bond, and
40 are each required to furnish $4,000
bond, making an aggregate bond re-
CURED of $4,000.
Immediately upon his arrest Presf-
dent Ryan addressed a statement to
union labor men throughout the coun-
try calling upon them to believe in his
innocence and in the innocence of his
co-defendants.
The indictment on which all the
men were arrested was made public
last night. It charges all the "a men
with conspiracy to violate the statutes
forbidding the carrying of explosives
on passenger trains and details At
transportations, charged as overt acts,
and names Ortie e. McManigal, or
Herbert S. Hockin, in each act, but
does not specify the part taken by
the other defendants.
All of the defendants are named in
each of the 80 indictments and accord
ing to District Attorney Miller, SEN
fences may be imposed for each of the
offenses. 1t is the contention of the
government that each of the defen-
dants was guilty in each of the con-
spiracy charges, although his active
participation may have been in one
transportation only.
There are ii indictments charging
overt acts and IA charging unconsum-
mated acts of conspiracy. Another in
dictment of "a counts charges all the
defendants as being principals in the
transportation of nitro-glycerin.
A further Indictment of 81 counts
charges Mechanical and J. b. McNa-
mara with physical transportation of
nitro-glycerin and all the other code
PENDANTS with abetting.
Two other remaining indictments,
with 16 counts each, charge all the de-
PENDANTS with being principals in the
transportation of dynamite and with
having aided McManigal and ]. B. Nc
Namara.
Altogether, the indictments contain
1913 counts against each of the defend
ants and the penalty for any one of
the offenses varies from Is months to
two years in prison.
SMty-five of the explosions consid
cred in the Indictments were on work
of members of the National Erectors'
association, an organization of ''open
shop" employers, and 81 explosions or
attempts were on work of contractors
who were not members of the erectors'
association.
More than 800 witnesses from Bos-
| ton to Los Angeles and from Duluth to
points IN Tennessee were examined.
The investigation was directed to the
matter of conspiracies to commit of
| lenses against the laws of the United
States and the transportation of dyna-
mite and nitro-glycerin as defined
and made punishable by the various
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