Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-01-01

IN interstate commerce.
McNamaras Aided
BY it's verdict the jury also sus
tanned the charges that the Mcnamara
brothers now in prison in California
were aided in the nationwide dyna-
mite plots by almost all the executive
officials OF the Iron Workers union.
and that they knowingly carried on
the conspiracy for years by causing
explosives to be transported on pas
senger trains.
AS head of the union of 1900 mem
bers President Ryan once sat in the
councils of the American Federation
of Labor
Tveitmoe of San Francisco was
charged with not only supplying two
men to assist in blowing up the Los
Angeles Times building, but also with
having asked for more explosions on
the Pacific coast. He is secretary of
the California Building Trades coun-
Gil, an editor, and recognized leader
in labor circles on the coast.
Hockin, the "Iago"
Also at the head of those found.
guilty is Herbert S. Hockin, called
the Iago of the conspiracy" because
he was charged with first initiating
Ortie E. McManigaI as a hired dyna-
inter and then with betraying ali the
dynamiters to promote his own ambi-
tons
It was he who, once secretary of the
international union, whispered into
the ear of Detective Buras the names
of the Los Angeles Times dynamit-
ers."
John T. Butler, vice president CT
the irOnworkers, also convicted, was
branded by the court as a ''perjurer"
after he had denied that Mcnamara
was drawing $1,000 a month to pay
Tor dynamitings
Organized Dynamiting Crew
Back in the summer of 1905 dyna-
mite was found at New Haven, Conn,
on a job on which non-union work
men were employed Later the iron
workers union called a strike on sew
eral contractors and the strike be-
came general. That was the Begin
nlng, according to the government,
and 1T spread until Mcnamara organ
lied "dynamiting crew" Altogether
IOU explosions occurred those at Los
angeles being among the number.
AS a motive for the crimes charged
the government referred to the strike
against employers of non-union labor.
consisting of bridge, viaduct and
building contractors who maintained
an open shop" policy, employing
Workmen regardless of whether they
belonged to the union or not. This
strike never has been called off It
was alleged that the warfare waged
by the union spread all over the coun-
try until violence was resorted to, or.
as was stated "picketing spread to
smuggling, smuggling to dynamite, and
dynamite to nitroglycerin"
McNamara, at the Headquarters of
the union Indianapolis, although
later named witnesses as the active
perpetrator' of the explosions. was
then unsupported by the contractors.
But the advent of Mechanical and
James B. Mcnamara, brother of the
union secretary, as regularly hired
dynamiters. working under John, Jrs
direction, and as Mechanical charges,
with Hockin's leadership, the explo-
siOns became so bold as to arouse
suspicion that they were the work of
an organized band
Much Evidence Is Admitted.
Detectives already had been work
Ing on the case when the killing of
twenty-one people in Los Angeles by
bomb set off at / o'clock in the
morning. showed that the desperation
of the dynamiters had reached the
murder stage
Much of the evidence that was pre-
cleded at Los Angeles by the pleas of
guilt by the Mcnamara brothers came
out here. Federal Judge Albert
Anderson ruled that while the specific
charges were illegal transportation,
all other evidence relative to explo-
sions might be offered as showing a
motive
Broadly the charges were that ] ]
Mcnamara began them and thought
them an effective means of fighting
open shop" contractors. MAKE the
Manigal said always were his instruc-
tions. Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of property was said to
have been destroyed
Tveitmoe heard his name mention
ed often He was accused as having
furnished Captain and Schmidt to
blow UP the Times building. He was
named as having sent word to Nc
Namara the month after the explosion
that things were all right on the
coast" and as having requested the
dynamiters again be sent to Los An
geles, later acknowledging another ex-
plosion there on Dec. 25, 1910. as ga
Christmas present" McManigal said
he called at Tveitmoe's office in San
Francisco, but met only Eugene A.
Clancy there.
OF all the defendants, Herbert S.
Hockin was probably the most con-
spicuOuS in the testimony