New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-09
No MONEY FOR BOMBS,
LABOR CHIEFS DEFENCE
aIobs" Meant Work for Union
Men, Not Explosions, Coun-
sci Declares to the Jury.
duplicates ABOUT THREE
Those Who Used Dynamite
Have Pleaded Guilty, Says At
torney-McManigal's Child
Played with Explosives.

Played with Explosives.
indianapolis. oct. s.--what the defence
vii be I'm the trial Of the forty-hve men
ACCUSED by the government OF completely
IN the alleged dynamite conspiracy was
outlined before the jury to-day by Will
lam n, Harding, their attorney,
Mr. Harding said II would be shown
that the executive board Of the Interna-
,,onsl Association of Bridge and Struct-
uysl Iron Workers never appropriated
dollar for dynamiting. lie asked the jury
,o suspend Judgment until after the Wit
nsssss had testified. II would be shown
hs said, that II any one connected with
the union diverted It's funds 10 any NE
raj purpose the guilty persons were not
among tho present defendants,
"When you have heard all the testl-
nony." said Mr.. Harding. tive think you
viii have concluded that about three men
we're engaged IN the nefarious work OF
avnamlting. and that those three men
already have pleaded guilty.
Says "Jobs" Meant Work
referring to letters written by FRANK
" Ryan, president OF the iron WORKERS.
union 10 various business agents. when
ths government quoted az showing tnA'
n,oh.n was the term used to designate
,,nlo.lons against employers OF nom
,,rion labor, Mr. Harding said IT wonid
:, shown that 'tobs" meant only ne"
~o-k which offered opportunity for union
s,ar 10 get employment He added II
.,ou,d bs upon the very letters when me
.rrment quoted In the indictments
that the defence expected to rest lts case
e,os Mr.. Harding became 50 Veheheh'
a, answering Charles w. Miller the
,,,,,sa states Attorney, that Judge A %.
Anderson interposed; Inc eou'' VA"
v,aks Allowances for your enthusiasm ZOE
n. defendants, but It Is not neces'1,'
,or you to split the ears OF the jurors III
an opening statement. 49,,
Tbs limited States Attorney hao JUS.
ootnpleted an address to the jury o.
,.,.n,y.three hours, covering nVe days.
"a concluding, he described the arrests OF
Ii. Mcnamara ana ortie T. McSiaiiisAi
At Detroit, saying that while IN ui0
hands Of detectives Mcnamara mao Oh
,s-sI frat 1900 and then $So0U IL thcy
xould Tree him. Mcnamara SAD II was
NJ u.e 10 arrest him. for behind him no
ho6 the iron workers union, ana oehihu
ne union the American Federation o.
,.horn naid Mr.. Miller He SAID ne
would raise $4,000 and employ C'a'
barrow TO defend him. But McSlAiii'
On, e,nIes.ed, and Mcnamara old not
get of"
Claney's Alleged Admissions
KILLER charged that Eugene A Clancy OK
san Francisco, a former member OF the
executive board Of the ironworkers UNION
and a prominent labor leader on the Pa
eiac Coast, had admitted to government
agents that he assisted in arranging LOT
EXPLOSIONS at Los Angeles. Clancy state
nent. as read to the jury, was:
Before the Los Angeles Times" dis
Aeter met J. 3. Mcnamara al SeStIie IN
fesponse TO a telegram sent from Indian.
apolis by ]. ]. Mcnamara, secretary OF
the union 81 thought you were IN the
printing business" / said to j. b. He re-
Piled, mo; you know what l am mere
Miller said It would be shown that J. y.
proceeded TO do the Los Angeles Jop'
With the assistance Of Clancy and oar n.
Tveitmoe, also on trial here. The federal
attorney said Tveitmoe had acted as
''paymsst IN handling the money Tor
NeNamsrs's expenses and later with
Clarence Darrow in handling the dyna-
miters defence fund.
Miller asserted that Herbert 3. Hockin,
acting secIetary-treasurer Of the Interna-
tional Association Of Bridge and Struct-
ural Ironworkers, I'm ''betraying' his fell
low Defendants had delivered to govern
nent agents the keys TO the Office OF the
union headquarters and had permitted
telephonie spy system 10 be installed
under the desk Of Frank NJ. Ryan, the
president
Explosions about Chicago and Spring
tad. H., were described by the prose-
sutor, He said that when James b. Nc
Ssmara and Ortie z. McManigal arrived
In Chicago in February. 1911. they found
the dynamite which they had carried on
passenger train from Indianapolis had
frozen. McManigal. at his home In Chi
cago, put the explosive on radiator to
thaw out, and when he returned from
looking over the IroQuois steel plant at
South Chicago he saw his little girl on
the floor playing with the dynamite, de-
CARED Miller.
When the South Chicago plant was
blown Up, on February "a, 1911, Miller said.
Mcnamara wanted to kill night watch
m Man because he was in the way out