The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-30
Labor Union Officials to Ap- pear Before Judge An
 ders0n This Morning
ARGUMENTS MAY
 DELAY SENTENCES
Entire Responsibility of Fixing Pun ishment Rests With Court-De- fense Confident of Reversal of Decision by Supreme
 Court

Indianapolis. December 29.-The Ss labor union officials, convicted of con- spiracy and of promoting the McNa- mara dynamite plots throughout tho country. tomorrow will face the pros- peet of receiving prison terms rang ing from any minimum to a possible maximum of S9la years.
 From their temporary cells in the county jail, the prisoners, handcuffed between deputy marshals, will be taken before Federal Judge Albert B. An derson at 10 a. m.
 Meanwhile United States Marshal Edward Schmidt has arranged for a special train to leave by secret route for the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. To prevent possible demonstra- tions on the way to Leavenworth no details as to the time of departure are to be announced. but it is known tho train is to be ready to start as soon as possible after the court pro- nounces Judgment upon the sS men unless some of the prisoners are al- lowed their liberty on bonds pending appeals.
 May Delay Sentence
 Motions for setting aside the verdicts and arguments may delay the impos- ing of sentences until Tuesday. District Attorney Charles w. Miller first will ask for judgments on the verdicts and the motions for setting them aside may require a full days session.
 The entire responsibility for fixing the amount of the punishment rests with the court. AS each of the men were adjudged guilty on all tho of- lenses charged, there being one offense carrying a maximum Imprisonment of two years and 25 offenses each carry ing a maximum punishment of IS months, the court may in it's disore- tion impose any penalty up to 39h years Imprisonment. Any minimum" also leaves the 4osrt the right to- give liberty 10 any prisoner by suspending sentence or a money fine may be inn posed.
 Prisoners, who receive less than one year terms are confined in county jails, but those who receive longer terms must be taken to federal prison. The federal prison at Leayenworth Is the one used by this district.
 Try to Make Bond
 That every effort would be exerted to regain liberty on bonds while an appeal is pending for some of the labor union officials now on bail, including Frank M. Ryan, president of the Iron Work CTS International union, Olaf A. Tveit- moe, a labor leader on the Pacific coast; Hiram R. Kline, a former official of the carpenters union, and some of the many business agents from score of cities, was announced by Chester II. krum, counsel for the convicted men.
 MT. Krum has taken active charge of arrangements for appeals to the United States circuit court of appeals since Senator Kern left for Washing ton.
 The question of bonds pending ap- peals is to come up after sentences are imposed The amounts of the bonds are fixed by the court. Unless the pris- oners are able at once to furnish the bonds they must remain in prison. 1t was stated that the soonest any appeal might be argued would be next April.
 Confident of Reversal
 "We certainly will appeal in the case of each man. said MT. Krum. There are about 90 errors upon which we shall base the petition and We are confident of an ultimate reversal"
 "This trial never will be reversed and the men will serve out the punish ments imposed by fhe court" said Dis trict Attorney Miller.
 Confined to two tiers of cells, four prisoners to cell the men the gov ernment charged engaged in the most widespread conspiracy for the destruc- ton of property in the history of the today remained within four blocks of the place in which it was charged the conspiracy originated. 1t was in the offices of the International of Bridge and Structural Iron worker not far from the coun- ty jail where John J. McNamara, sec retary of the union, formed the plots and in which dynamite and nitro elyeerin were found at the time of his arrest. It was this office from which he was charged with sending out Ortie F. MeManigal and Herbert $. Hockin as paid dynamiters and with starting his brother James E. McNamara, to carry on the destruction at Los An geles. cal, with the loss of life there.
 It was also in the ron workers of- fees that many of the men now con yicted were declared to have met 10 discuss the conspiracy and to appro- priate the unions funds for the pur- chase of explosives.
 All but two of the officers of the union, brought from cities scattered from Boston to Los Angeles, are now in jail.
 Besieged by Visitors
 McNamara's former office was desert ed today, but the gray stone county pris- on bearing over it's portal in black let ters the words Jail Entrance" was be- sieged by hundreds of visitors. The scenes among the women relatives of the prisoners clamoring to be admitted were similar to that enacted In the court room on Saturday when by the verdicts about 30 wives were separated from their husbands. Only those who had permits were admitted but the entrance to the iail was filled with baskets of food tag ged with the names of certain prison CTS.
 Up until 10 D., m., when the doors were closed to visitors. people streamed in and out of the little jail. Now it was Hockin, termed the "Iago of the con spiracy," in having started McManigal into the dynamiting business, and then ;@af,;,, f.r, bip, who was calle1 att