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 Cy CASES CONVICTED
Almost Entire Executive Staff of Iron Work CTS Hear Verdict of Guilty in One of Most Remarkable Trial in History
 of American Courts

Indianapolis, Ind, Dec. 2S.-The United States government with stern and decisive SwiftnesS today took into it's possession thirty-eight union labor of promoting explosions on nOn-un- ion work throughout the land of aid ing in the destruction which brought loss of life at Los Angeles, Cal, and of carrying on reign of terror de clared to be unparalleled in the his tory of the country
 Almost the entire executive staff of International Association of Bridge & Structural Iron Workers was convict ed Only two officials of this union now remain out of jail. The head of the list of those convicted stands Frank M. Ryan, the President.
 McNamara Treasurer.
 It was in this union, with 12,000 members, that John J. McNamara was 5ecretary-treasurer while he conduct ed the dynamitings out of which the present convictions grew.
 Today's convictions, coming on a scale unprecedented in a federal court, were an aftermath of the killing of twenty-one persons in the blowing up of the Los Angeles Times building October 1, 1910. McNamara and his brother, James B., the Times dynamlt- CT, are convicts in California; Ryan and his fellow officials, former aSSo- ciates of McNamara, are federal pris- oners here, awaiting sentence.
 Two Not Ironworkers.
 TIo of those convicted were not af- flifd with the iron workers union, bue|hey were found guilty of joining with khe iron workers officials in pro- moting the conspiracy. One of these is Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Francisco, a recognized labor leader on the Paci- fic coast, the testimony against whom was that he aided in causing explos ions at LosAngeles, wrote letters about them and referred to them as"Christ- mas present" ts"after the fatal explosion at Los Angeles, and that he aided in concealing evidence wanted in Cali fOrnia. He is secretary of the Cali fornia Building Trades Council.
 Second is Carpenter.
 Hiram R. Kline, Muncie, Ind, the other member of another union con- victed was formerly an organizer for the United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners in Detroit.
 Another token of the Los Angeles explosion came in the conviction of J. B. Munsey, who was charged by the government with harboring James B. -McNamara for two weeks in Salt Lake City, while that dynamiter was fleeing from the scene of the crime.
 Many of those convicted were charged with knowing only of local explosions on the work of contractors who refused to recognize the union, but were tn T brought into the gen. eral conspira z.
 Alleged Money Paid.
 {. Ryan, John T. Butler, the vice president of the union, Buffalo; Flu gene a Clancy, San Francisco; Frank c ~ ebb, New York; Michael I. YoNns, Boston; Phillip A Cooley, Denver, and Charles N. Beum ,Minne apolis, were all convicted as having appropriated out of the unions funds S1 1000 a month, with which McNa- mara paid for explosions.
 Herbert s. Hockin who resigned as secretary of the union only a few weeks ago, who was branded as the '1ago'' of the conspiracy, in having helped to instigate the plots and em- ploying Ortie E. McManigal to carry them out, while afterwards "betray ing his fellow conspirators" to pro- mote his own interests, stands among the most prominent of those convict ed. He figured almost daily in the testimony.
 In Quick Time.
 Sixteen minutes was all the time
 
 jury, read it's verdict of "thirty-eight guilty and two not guilty" and dis miss the jurors.
 That verdict brought to an end the historic three months dynamite con- spiracy'' trial. It meant, except in the cases of Herman c. Seiffert, Milwau- kee, and Daniel Buckley, Davenport, Iowa, who were the two men out of forty to be adjudged mot guilty" that the governments charges about dynamite plots extending over six years had been sustained. It meant also that thirty wives many of whom, with their children had patiently sat through the long drawn-out ordeal, were at last to be separated from their husbands.
 Be Sentenced Monday. Important details yet remain in consequence of the verdicts. Punish ments are to be imposed on the 3S men by Federal Judge Albert B. An derson Monday at 10 a. m. Prisoners who receive terms longer tAAn one year are to be taken to the |