The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-02-21
ARREST Of LEADERS
MANY LABOR UNION Mel! Men ARREST,
Ed BY GOVERNMENT
IN DIFFERENT SECTIONS

Almost the Whole Iron Workers
staff, Including the President, Vice
President, Secretary, Treasurer,
and Many Members of the Execu-
tive Committee are Non Prisoners.
A dispatch fros Indianapolis, Ind,
says the United States Government
Wednesday arrested almost all Of the
ffty-four men indicted there in the
dynamite conspiracy cases. It took
into custody within few hours prac-
tically the entire official staff Of the
International Association of Bridge
and Structural Iron workers, includ-
ing the chief officers, members of the
executive board and about twenty
business agents and former business
agent.
These included Frank NJ. Ryan,
president; John T. Butler Of Buffalo,
n. Y, first vice president, and Her
bert S. Hockin, second vice president
and successor to ]. ]. Mcnamara as
secretary-treasure Each Of these
men was required to give $4,000
bond for his appearance for arraign-
ment here with ali the other defend
ants on March 12.
More than forty OF the men, chief
~ labor union officials, who are
charged with conspiring to destroy
by dynamite or nitroglycerine the
property Of employers of non-union
labor. were under arrest by Wednes-
day night. and it was declared the
apprehension Of all the others would
follow within forty-eight hours.
By its action the government re-
vealed the identity Of the men whom
it charges with being the accomplices
o. the McNamaras and Ortie McMan-
igal in the dynamite plots. embrac-
ing almost one hundred. explosions
which, begun in Massachusetts,, in
1908, occurred in various places over
the country for six years and which
resulted in the wrecking of the Los
Angeles Times building and an at
tempt TO blow up President Taft's
special train at Santa Barbara, Cal.,
last October.
Hiram Cline, national organizer
for the International Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners, was ar
rested at his home at Munc1e Cline
is the third agent Of a union other
than the iron workers to be involved
il the conspiracy The others are
Clarence E. Dowd of Rochester, n.
Y, formerly an agent for the inter-
national Machinists' union, and Spur
geon P. Meadows of Indianapolis, an
agent of the Carpenters union.
All, It is alleged, were concerned
in dynamiting depredations against
contractors who employed nonunion
carpenters and machinists as we'll as
iron workers. Meadows, Ernest W.
G. Basey, former business agent OF
the local Iron Workers union, and
Fred Sherman, Basey's successor, are
alleged to have been concerned in
four explosions which occurred at
midnight of October 25, 1909, in Ia
dianapolis.
They caused loss Of $4,000 to
Albert Won Speckelsen, contractor
who had been employing nonunion
men of all the building crafts. A
branch telephone exchange and
brancl public library, under con-
strlction by Won speckelsen, were
damaged and his planning mill and
the garage destroyed. The explos-
ions in four parts of the city were so
executed that they occurred simul-
taneously Among those arrested
were:
Rochester, n. Y.-Clarence E.
Dowd, Machinists' union.
Syracuse, N. Y.-E. E. Phillips,
Iron Workers union; John Carroll,
Iron Workers union.
cago-Richard H. Foulihan,
VIM. Schoupe, Iron Workers union;
James Cooney, Iron Workers union;
James Coughlin, Iron Workers IN
ion.
New York-Frank C. Webb, Iron
Workers union; Patrick Farrell,
Daniel Trophy.
Indianapolis-Frank Ryan, Iron
Workers president; Herbert O.
Hooking, second vice president; John
T. Butler, first vice president Iron
Workers union; Fred Sherman, Iron
Workers union (three latter when
RYAN was arrested); Spurgeon Mead
ows. Carpenters union.
Cincinnati-Edward Clark, Iron
Workers union; Ernest G. W. Basey,
Iron Workers union.
Detroit-Charles ". Wachmeis-
tein, Iron Workers union; Frank ].
Murphy, Iron Workers union.
St. Louis-John Barry, Iron
Workers union; Paul Merrin, McNa-
mara agent.
Kansas City-W. Bert Brown, Iron
Workers union; w. J. Mccain, Iron
Workers union.
Milwaukee-W. E. Reddin, Her
man G. Seiffert, Iron Workers union.
Denver-Henry W. Legleitner,
Iron Workers union formerly OF
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