Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-01-18

historic thTeC months dynamite con
SplraCy trial. 1t meant. except in the
cases of Herman G. Seiffert. Milwau
kec. and Daniel Buckley, Davenport
Ia, WHO were the two men Out OF
forty 10 be adjudged mot guilty" that
the governments charges about dyna
rite plots extending over six wears
, had been sust aimed.
1t means also that 80 wives, many
Of whom with their children, had pa
! t!"ntly sat through the long drawn
! CIT ordeal, were at last TO be Separat,
Cd from their husbands.
+ lNDIANOPOLIS, Dec. 30.-FederaI
! Judge Anderson's statement about the
trial, in which he said that the eyi-
dence shows some Of these defendants
to be guilty of murder, was read by
him from the bench. The statement
in full follows:
In 1908 there was a contest ON be-
tween the American Bridge company
! a concern engaged in the erection of
structural iron, and the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, of which association all
but two of the defendants in this case
are members, over the open and closed
shop questions, the bridge company
having declared its purpose to conduct
ltc affairs on the open shop basis. In
August, 1905, the International associ-
atiCn declared a general strike against
the bridge company throughout the
United States, and this latter was ex.
| tended TO all open shop concerns in
any way connected or allied with, or
subsidiary to, the bridge company
This strike never has been settled.
In the early period of its existence
the strike was attended with the usual
incidents of picketing, smuggling and
rioting, but in 1906 a campaign by dy-
Mantle was inaugurated, and begin
ming with explosions in the east and
extending from the Atlantic to the Pa
cific, continuing until the arrest of the
McNamaras and McManigal in April,
1911. The evidence in this case shows
that almost 100 explosions, damaging
and destroying structures in process
of erection by, and machinery Of, open
shop concerns took place, eliminating
on Ehe first day of October, 1910, in
the /destruction of the Los Angeles
Times building and the murder of 81
people. Every one of these explosions
was upon the work of open shop con-
Germs, and no explosion Is shown to
have taken place upon any closed shop
job. Since the arrest Of the McNa-
maras and McManigal these explo-
Sions have ceased.
Reion of Terror Inauourated,
This system of destruction was not
carried on for revenge or in disobedi-
ence to any other human passion, but
for the deliberate purpose, by a Verit-
able reign of terror, to enforce COM
pliance with the demands of the iron
workers upon the open and closed shop
question.
For a number of years the interna-
tional has published an official journal
known as the Bridgemen's Magazine.
The constitution of the international
shall make monthly report OF all mon
eys received and expended and publish
the same in the official journal. Early
in the conspiracy the defendant Ryan,
president of the international, wrote
letter to J. J. Mcnamara, the .secre-
tary, advising that from that time un-
til the strike was oyer, this provision
of the constitution be not observed.
Mcnamara, by letter, called the presi-
dents attention to the fact that this was
in violation of the constitution, but that
he would lay the matter before the ex-
ecutive board.
In February, 1906, the executive
board resolved to omit the publication
Of expenditures and recapitulation I'M
til further instructions are given. The
monthly report shall consist Of re-
ceipts alone"
Notice. of this official action was
zine each month down 10 the present
time. Letters Of the various defend
ants and records of the association
and other proofs demonstrate beyond
question that each member OF the eX-
ecutive board was a party to this
scheme or plan for violation of the con-
stitution of the association and knew
the purpose and object of it.
Funds Pay for Internal Machines.
1t is further shown by indubitable
proof of papers and records of the in
ternationa1 association that the dyna
mite and nitroglycerin, the batteries,
clocks and caps out of which, with in
genious deviltry, the Internal machines
were contrived, and the work Of set
ting the explosions, we're all paid for
out of the funds of the international
association; and that these funds we're
drawn from the association upon
checks signed by the secretary-treas-
urer, John J. Mcnamara, and by the
president, the defendant Frank NJ.
Ryan.
Two of the defendants in this case,
and Clark, have pleaded
guilty and testified to their pa-ticipa-
ton in and knowledge of the consplr-
acy and its execution. The principal
of these is McManigal, whose story Is
testified TO upon the witness stand [
was given in such manner as Of itself ,
10 carry conviction Of its truth. But
in addition to this, his testimony is
rOrroborated by letters of various Of !
he defendants, by the records Of the
ocC0ciatiOO ny tho re-