Belen news. (Belen, N.M.) 1912-1947, 1913-01-02
LABOR LEADERS CON-
VICTED AND SENTENCED

In the federal court at Indianap-
oils, Ind, the jury in the case of the
government against the forty Struct-
ural Iron Workers, charging conspil-
acy of promoting explosions of nor
union works, and of aiding in the
! destruction of the Los Angeles Times
building, which caused such teri le
loss of life, brought in verdict Isst
Saturday of not guilty as regards two
of the defendants and guilty as re-
CARDS the other thirty-eight The
Associated Press gives the following
report of the closing of the trial,
which lasted three months:
Today's convictions, coming on a
scale unprecedented in a federal
court, were an aftermath of the kill
ing of twenty-one persons in the
blowing up of the Los Angeles Times
| building on October 1, 1910. McNs-
mara and his brother, James B., the
Times dynamiter, are convicts in Cal
ifornia; Ryan and his fellow officials,
former associates of Mcnamara. are
federal prisoners here awaiting SEN
| tence. Two of those convicted were
not affiliated with the iron workers
union, but they were found guilty OF
| joining with the iron workers officials
in promoting the conspiracy. One Of
these is Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Fran
cisco, recognized labor leader on
the Pacific coast, the testimong
against whom was that he aided in
causing explosions at Los Angeles,
wrote letters about them and refer
red to them as Christmas presents, !"
after the fatal explosion at Los
| Angeles, and that he aided in con-
| cealing evidence wanted in Califor-
MIA. He is secretary of the Califor
MIA Building Trades council Hiram
R. Kline, of Munice, Ind, the othel
member of another union convicted
was formerly an organizer for the
| United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners in Detroit.
Another token of the Los Angeles
explosion came in the conviction OF
~. p. Munsey who was charaAd n
the government with narBorinI
James B. Mcnamara for tive weeks
in Salt Lake City, while that dyna-
miter was fleeing from the scene of
the crime Many of those convicted
were charged with knowing only of
local explosions on the work of con-
| tractors who refused to recognize
| the union but were thus brought in
to the general conspiracy. Ryan,
| John T. Butler, the vice president
of the union of Buffalo; Eugene A.
| Clancy, of San Francisco; Frank c.
| Webb, of New York; Michael ].
Young, of Boston; Phillip A. Cooley,
of New Orleans; Henry w. Legleit-
ner, of Denver, and Charles N. Beum
of Minneapolis, were all convicted as
having appropriated out of the
unions funds $1,000 a month with
which Mcnamara paid for explo-
sions.
Herbert S. Hockin, who resigned
as secretary of the union only few
weeks ago, who was branded as the
'Iago of the conspiracy" in having
helped to instigate the plote and en-
ploying Ortie E. Manigal to carry
them out, while afterwards 'betray-
| ing his fellow conspirators' to pro-
Imote his own interests, stands
among the most prominent of those
convicted. He figured almost daily
in the testimony. Sixteen minutes
was all the time required for the
court to receive the jury, read its
| verdict of "thirty-eight guilty and
two not guilty." and dismiss the
Jurors.
That verdict brought to an end
the historic three months dynamite
conspiracy" trial. 1t meant, except
in the cases of Herman G. Seiffert, Of
Milwaukee, and Daniel Buckley, OF
Davenport, Ia, who were the two
men out of forty to be adjudged
mot guilty." that the governments
charges about dynamite plots rex
tending over six years had been sus-
| tanned 1t meant also that thirty
wives, many of whom, with their
children, had patiently sat through
the long-drawn out ordeal, were at
last to be separated from their hus-
bands.
Sentences varying from sew