Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-01-03

can Bridge company wre stopping at
that hostelry at the time.
} The conspirators, however. did not
confine their operations to attacks
against the American Bridge company.
On May 81 Of the same year a dyna-
mite attack was made against the Pitts
burgh Construction company of New
ark. N. j., and in August an incendiary
fire was started In warehouse the
McClintic-G Marshall company-destined
to be later the particular butt Of the
conspiracy--was putting up at Consho-
hocken, Pa.
| A dynamite explosion at Detroit In
June, 1907 brought to the forefront two
men who afterward were to figure
largely In the labor conspiracy. The
job was engineered by Ortie McMani-
gal, the subsequent informer, and Her
bert s. Hockin, designated by United
States Attorney Miller as the "sptain
Of the dynamite squad" tn outrages
at this point also became more national
In scope, many Of those previously per-
petrated having been the products OF
segregated malcontents among. local
unions.
The Growing Conspiracy.
The four years after the plot took ON
its larger scope saw nearly hundred
L dlldChb .d6diIlSL uOn-u
work. This period also marked the
more prevalent use OF nitroglycerine
the less deadly explosive having prov
ed hardly efficacious enough to satisfy
the fell designs Of the 'conspirators.
The crowning work Of the destruc-
tionists came In thc wrecking OF the
Los Angeles Times building. which re-
suited In the death Of q score. With
this eliminating catastrophe public
oo ALL
men whose operations were becoming
more and more manifest and the Fed
eral authorities brought every force at
their command to bear on the situation.
Investigations resulted IN the arrest
and conviction Of the Mcnamara BROTH
ers and the startling confessions OF the
trapped McManigaL
The forty defendants brought before
the bar at Indianapolis presented
strange spectacle. No effort was made
by any agency for the defence to prove
that no organized conspiracy had ex-
fghtins IS Zach defendant was merely
qiminally connected with f1iiiss 1iisie NOT De
acy.
Among those to whom the eyes OF al
persons In the court room were con-
tinually turned In the course OF the
long trial was Olaf A Tveitmoe Of San
Francisco, secretary treasurer Of the
California Building Trades Council and
the biggest man In the labor movement
on the Pacific coast. The government
charged that Tveitmoe was the guiding
genius behind the bloodiest of all the
outrages-the wrecking of the Times
building.
Leader 10 Sarcastic.
With his 270 pounds OF Drawn COM
posed in q posture of stolid indifference
Tveitmoe sat through most Of the trial
with sarcastic smile playing over his
| face. In fact he was moved from the
counsel table by Judge Anderson be-
cause Of the continual smiles of deri-
sion while witnesses were testifying.
Throughout the trial he took copious
notes which formed the basis Of bitter
articles which appeared from time to
time In Organized Labor, a paper OF
which he Is editor. At other times he
apparently would forget all about the
case at issue and would lose himself
In deep study of the "Rubaiyat" Of
Omar Khayyam
Frank ID. Ryan, who succeed ded Buch-
anan as president Of the Internation-
| al Iron Workers, was another man who
attracted marked attention. AS the
trial progressed his face took on an un-
usual pallor and on the witness stand
i hC piOtCa HiOol CACttdUiC. Wd5 Cau-
| toned again and again by the court
because Of his outbursts OF temper.
A third prominent figure was Hook
In. The government charged that he
induced McManigal to become dyna-
miter and coerced him into continuing
his deadly work. In addition he was
known as the traitor of the cause, the
man who had "double-crossed" his fell
lows and made revelations which led
| to the McNamara trial and the greater
trial to follow. When the court opened
he appeared in the court room on ball.
but later he was sent to jail In default
OF a great increase In bond. When this
occurred Judge Anderson took occasion
to declare that Hockin could not be
trusted by any one on any proposition
at any place in the road or at any time
of the day" ~ -
McManigaPs confession formed one
Of the most interesting chapters in the
trial. Plans which the conspirators had
in view were shown to be even more
fiendish than those which they had
carried out. The informer told how de-
signs were being laid to dynamite the
locks Of the Panama Canal and thereby
strike blow at the McCiintic- Marshal
| and violence Of terrific import were
laid bare by McManigal.
DiseIaims Responsibility.
Papers and letters which the Federal
authorities had seized In the rooms Of
the labor leaders on trial formed an
| important part Of the proof against
them. About one thousand letters were
read to the jury, and many Of these
seemed to carry an import which was
unmistakable. The Federal attorneys
contended that there could be no doubt
about the criminal character of the
correspondence.
Other items called to the attention OF
| the jury included the 81 900 a month
which John ]. Mcnamara drew from
the union from the latter part Of 1909
until hs arrest. There were also many
| other payments to Mcnamara, for
which no other accounting was made
than expended for organization pur-
poses by order Of the executive board"
No money could be drawn from the l..
Golfers Of the ironworkers without the
signature of Frank M. Ryan on the
checks. No denial was made of the
fact that his name was on the checks
used In providing dynamite funds, but
Ryan contended In defence that he
signed the checks in blank without
knowing for what use the money was
| to be put. Every other member of the
executive board who went on the stand
made absolute denial of any knowledge
Of the use to which the funds were put.
Dramatic interest increased as the
trial neared its end. Union men all
over the country were in fever Of ex-
pectancy. Little else was talked Of In
Indianapolis and those cities where the
worst of the outrages had been perpe-
| trated.