Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-01-02
Labor Leaders Reach Leaven-
worth and Are Paired Off as
Cell Mates Except the Odd
One.
WORK ASSIGNED TO
SUIT INDIVIDUALS
Presumed Most Of Them VIII.
Assist in Construction of
Buildings About Government
Prison Grounds,
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my Morning journal Special Leased Wirc)
Lcavcnworth, Kan, Jan. 1.-The
thlrty-thrce labor union officials
sentenced AT indianapolis for COM
plicity in the Mcnamara dynamite
plot arrived at the federal prison here
at T15 today. They Immediately were
photographed. dressed in peniten-
tiary clothes and formally enrolled as
convicts.
As Frank NJ. Ryan, president Of
the Iron Workers International Union;
Olaf Tveitmoe the Pacific coast labor
leader: Herbert s. llockin. John T.
Butler and the others stepped from
the special train which brought them
from Indianapolis they were taken in
charge hy the prison authorities.
New Years day thus found the la
Dor leaders beginning IN the federal
pehitentiary here punshments for
their connection with crimes for
which the Mcnamara brothers. con-
fcssed dynamiters are serving terms
in the state prison at San Quentin,
California.
The prisoners were taken by rail
directly into the prison grounds.
Their first view Of the interior was
from the windows OF the train. With
in an hour after their arrival each
man had been subjected TO a hair cut
and garbed in the prison uniform.
on account Of IT'S heing T. holideF
~.
to work were delayed until tomor-
row. Most OF the new prisoners are
iron workers and il is understood the
warden is to put them on the con-
struction Of buildings TveitmOe,
who is secretary of the California
building trades council, is the only
one of the convicted men not affili-
ated with the iron workers union. and
1t is expected he will be given clerical
work Ryan may be given similar
work because Of his age and his APP
parent feeble condition
II was memorable trip which
brought the prisoners over the $40
miles from Indianapolis on New
Years eve. once started United
States Marshal Edward Schmidt de-
cided not to reach Leavenworth be-
fore daylight SO that almost twenty
hours were passed on the train.
The train was guarded at windows
and doors as rolling adjunct OF the
pcntentary. all the curtains being
drawn and no one being permitted to
give out any word as to the happen
ings within.
The trip across Indiana. Illinois,
Missouri and into Kansas was to have
been kept secret but at every station
crowds greeted the train as the dy-
namiters special and cheers and
singing at midnight showed the dis
position OF the prisoners toward a
New Year. which for them was to be-
gin with Imprisonment.
AT midnight while passing Jeffer-
son City, Mo-. Marshal Schmidt pass
ed around coffee, which was drunk
with tin cups. Each prisoner was
permitted at that time to write out
New Years messages to members Of
his family. but beyond that outburst
Of cheer, 1t was long, monotonous
ride for the men, each of whom was
required to sit throughout the night
facing an armed guard.
r. J. Higgins, Boston, former New
England organizer for the iron work
ers, became unconscious on the train
and was placed in a physicians care.
He is sentenced to serve two years
When the prisoners were register
ed II was found Ryan, aged 5S years,
was the Oldest, and Fred Sherman, 20,
the youngest.
Charles Waehtmeister. Detroit, with
eight children, has the largest family.
He is sentenced to two years
Almost the first question asked by
Tveitmoe on entering the penitentiary
was about the library
Among the treasures which he ask
ed to be allowed to retain was book
Of Latin verse inscribed BY Anton
Johannsen, another san Francisco la
Dor leader who has been indicted I'M
Los Angeles.
Asked whether he intende to re-
llnquish any Of his affiliations on the
Pacific coast Tveitmoe replied "Ab-
solutely none
t'NNf AAoH'tAF NHlNf AHt IL iicBn 81 dlAi
passed within sight Of the railroad
bridge across the Missouri rive, which
Ortie McMangal confessed he blew
up.
Il had not long been daylight when
the train pulled into the penitentiary
yard. The prisoners last view of the
outside was placid expanse OF the
Missouri river
From the train within the prison
gates. the prisoners were called forth
alphabetically and stood abreast.
Reddin and Ryan, read the unit-
ed states marshal
Cooley and Clancy or eBeum and
Butler"
II was the last time the men were