The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-02-15
LABOR LEADERS
Are ARRESTED
OVER FIFTY MEN ARE NOW IN
CHARGE OF UNITED STATES
OF c ERS.
oo"os OF Leaders Placed at $4,000 in
several cases-Two Charges Made
IN All Observation-Disclosures IN All
sections of Country, g

washington, Feb, 1.-Two score or
iaoof leaders were arrested todav ,n
.he most sweeping federal action of
us kind ever attempted. The arrests
LOOK place in cities Of the Middle Wesf
ana East. The prisoners are accused
VI having acted as units in a giant
conspiracy to ship dynamite through
Out The country. The explosive il ,x
charged by the federal grand iurv thar
entered the charges, was used to blow
up open shop" work under construc-
ton.
All OF the executive officers of the
international Association of Rridee
ana structural Iron Workers were
arrested, while some members of the
executive committee who are declared
70 nave had knowledge of the blast
ing operations carried on by the Nc
Namaras were jailed.
ball was Immediately fixed IN most
cases, and the men moved in attempts
to obtain bondsmen.
Among the first arrested was Frank
M. Ryan, president of the Interna-
tlonal Association of Bridge and
structural Iron Workers. He was
taken in indianapolis, where the iron
workers international Headquarters
are located, and from which 7 J.
mcnamara, the convicted dynamiter,
was arrested last April.
E1pVpD
workers, four Or five officials and
some members of the executive board
VINO are charged with knowing what
mcnamara did with money used to
buy explosives are among those in
dicted.
Spurgeon P. Meadows, a business
agent of the District Council of the
international Order of Carpenters and
Jolners, also was arrested in Indian
apolis. He represents one of the
three labor unions alleged to be i'm
pllcated in the conspiracy. The Off
Gals of the iron workers. together
With c. w. Dowd, who is official head
OF the carpenters, were taken into
Ny IL ' al lCuS CLUES.
Dowd Figures Prominently.
Dowd figures prominently in the
case of Ortie McManigal, the confess
ed dynamiter. Webb of New York,
and Farrell, also Of the iron workers
executive committee, were held in
$4,000 bonds.
Before night, it is expected the ma
Jority of the fifty or more men in
dicted will be apprehended and the
government will reveal the facts, all
the men being under arrest.
john T. Butler, Buffalo, N. Y. first
vice president of the International
Iron Workers, second vice president
and acting secretary-treasurer and
Fred Sherman, local business agent,
We're arrested in Indianapolis after
Ryan was taken. Hockin succeeded
j. j. Mcnamara, now in San Quentin
prison California, as secretary treas
urer.
McManigal, in his testimony, it was
said had given the names of all the
men taken today.
1t is charged in the indictment
that Hockin went to Detroit in June,
1907, and induced McManigal to take
up dynamiting.
The bonds of Ryan, Hockin and
Butler have been fixed at $4,000 each,
and those of Sherman and several
others at $4,000 each. 1t was said
they would soon furnish bond
McNamaras Were Agents.
In the indictments it is held that
the McNamaras and McManigal were
merely the agents of a cast conspir-
acy and that they were connected with
blowing up structures being erected
by "open shop" firms. 1t was also
stated that the dynamiting had been
going on for years.
Five others indicted were members
of the executive board when j. ]. Nc
Namara was directing his dynamiting
operations from his office in Indian
apolis and when he was receiving ST.
900 a month from the iron workers
union, for which he was not required
to make any accounting and which
the government charges was used 10
purchase and ray for the transporta-
ton OF explosives. These executive
board members were present in Nc
Namara's office when he was arrested
last April.
TWO Charges are Made.
The charges in the indictment are
divided into two groups. The first