The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1913-01-01
Only Two Escaping Arm
Of the Law.
END OF A REIGN OF TERROR
Official Force of Structural
IrOnWOrkerS' Union al
most Obliterated.
HEAVY SENTENCES POSSIBLE

United States. Government, with
stern and decisive swiftness, to-day
took into it's possession thirty-eight
union labor officials convicted of
conspiracy of promoting explosions
on non-union work throughout the
land, of aiding in the destruction
which brought loss of life at Los
Angeles, CAL, and of carrying on a
"reign of terror" declared to be I'M
PARALLEL in the history of the coun-
try.
Almost the entire executive staff
of the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
was convicted. Only two officials
of that union now remain out of
jail. At the head of the list of
those convicted stands Frank M.
Ryan, the president.
1t was in this union, with $4,000
members, that John j. Mcnamara
was secretary-treasure while he
conducted the dynamitings out of
which the present convictions grew.
To-day's convictions, coming on
a scale unprecedented in 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 dynamiter, are con-
victs in California; Ryan and his
fellow officials, former associates of
Mcnamara, are Federal prisoners
here awaiting sentence. 1f
Two of those convicted were not
affiliated with the ironworkers' gun-
ion, bat they were found guilty of
joining with the ironworkers' soffi-
cials in promoting the conspiracy.
One of these is Olaf A. Tveitmoe,
San Francisco, recognized labor
iCouCi vi inc dSihS Sodol, TIC tco-
timony against whom was that he
aided in causing explosions at Los
Angeles. wrote letters about them,
and referred to them as Christ
mas presents after the fatal ex-
plosion at Los Angeles and that he !
aided in concealing evidence want
ed in California. He is secretary |
Of the California Building Trades !
Council.
Another token of the Los Ange-
les explosion came in the conviction
Of ]. e. Munsey, who was charged
by the Government with harboring
James b. Mcnamara for two weeks
in Salt Lake City while that ..dyna-
inter was fleeing from the scene of
his crime.
Many of those convicted were
charged with knowing only of local
explosions on the work of contrac-
tors who refused to recognize the
union, but were thus brought into
he general conspiracy.
John T. Butler, vice president of
he union. Buffalo; Eugene A. Clan
~. San Francisco; Frank C. Webb,
New York; Michael J. Young, Bos-
on; Philip A. Cooley. New Or
cans; Henry w. Legleitner, Dem
FER. and Charles N. Beum. Mime
lpolis. were all convicted as having
out of the unions
unds 1000 month with which
Mcnamara paid for explosions.
Herbert S. Hockin, who resigned
is secretary of the union only a
ew weeks ago, who was branded
IS the Iago of the conspiracy" in
having helped to instigate the plots
nd employing Ortie E. McManigal
o carry them out. while afterward
betraying his fellow conspirators"
o promote his own interests. stands
Imong the most prominent Of those
onvicted. He figured almost daily
n the testimony.
Sixteen minutes was all the time
equired by the court to receive the
ury, read its verdict of thirty
light guilty and two not guilty"
nd dismiss the jurors.
That verdict brought to an end
he historic three months "dyna- I
lite conspiracy trial. 1t meant. h
kept in the cases Of Herman, Get
eiffert. Milwaukee; and Daniel 9
buckley. Davenport. Iowa. who 9
'ere the two men out Of forty to I
Q adjudged mot guilty. that the 9
overnment's charges about dyna-
lite plots extending over six years
cd been sustained. ga ~
II meant also that thirty wives. Q
amy Of whom with their children y
Atiently had sat through the long .
aWn mt ordeal wora M lat -