DYNAMITE OUTRAGES.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1365, 16 February 1912, Page 5

DYNAMITE OUTRAGES.

ARRESTS IN AMERICA,

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST

LABOUR LEADERS.

FIFTY PRISONERS. Hj TtlcEraph-Pwss Aswcral.io«-C°Dyr<cn» (lice. February !•">, 5.3 !>•'»•) New York, I i-briiiny 14. fifty arrests luivw lii-f-u made Ihioughdiil. (hi> t'nilcd Stales in connection with tlic investigation of the rec-t-nt dynamiting oiilriiiii-i.

'I'lii' persons arreMed hi'.-liulo Ryan, pie-iilcul ill tlic Slrm-lural Kiwi Workers' Association, I" which Ihf Maenamiirni, of Los Angeles notoriety, belonged ; Frank Wcbl), an i'X-iiicinlx>r of the Iron Workers.' Executive Hoard; Meadows, business agent of the "International Brothprliooil of Carpenters mid .joiners; But lor, vice-president of (he Structural Iron Workers' Union; and other leading labour officials.

The charges include (he violation of the I'Vderal Statutes regulating the shipment of explosives, and aiding and abetting such violation of the law, and also aiding and abetting the concealment of such violation. CASE OF THE M'NAMARAS. FEDERAL INVESTIGATION. The expectation aroused in the public mind that further .--ensational disclosures would follow the confession of tho M'Xaninra Brothers, Labour leaders, that they dynamited property in Los Angeles, has not been satisfied (stated i> San Francisco correspondent in a recent dispatch). Investigations have been in progress by various agencies and along various channels, but without: nnparont result of particular moment. For two weeks Federal grand juries have been sitting daily in Los Angeles and Indianapolis hearing testimony and examining records. Among those questioned under oath have been .many Labour leader.-, but if any evidence has been obtained that the M'Namaras were operating under the directions of an organised ring of Labour unionists, tho public lias been kept in the dark about, it. The M'.Vaniaras have been taken to San Quentin prijun without, so far as is known, giving the authorities a tittle of assistance in their investigation. Newspaper reporters followed them to the very door of the prison, importuning them for a, "statement" or a "confession"; both maintained a surly silence from first to last. Oscar Lawler, a Los Angeles attorney, retained by the Federal Government lo*direct tho inquiry by the grand jury, had an interview with the two dynaiuitards before they left for San Qiieulin. What they told'him. or if they told him anything, he alone l;nows. It has been suggested that after serving portion of their sen.lc.nces tlic 11'Nama.ras will become more communicative, impelled thereto by the hone of liberation on parole. "Four Sail" t'ranci.sco men who have been implicated in tiic 'Times' dynamiting will be arrested when tho time is ripe.'' This statement was made by AY. ,1. Ford, an assistant district attorney of Los Angeles, who was prominent in tho prosecution of the ll'Namaras. "'We have evidence of the inner working of this plot." lio went on. "\V« know where it was hatched, and what men out in the West handled it. These men oro shadowed, and their whereabouts arc known to us at all times. 'When the necessary time comes* they will be arrested." But, it is two weeks since this promise, or threat, was made, and the. identity of the four men referred to has not been revealed. It was thought that Clancy, a San Francisco Labour organiser, was one of them. Ortio M'Manigal, in tho confession which was the basis of the. case against the M'Namaras, staled that .T. B. M'Nnmarn told him to go to San Francisco from Chicago rind 'meet Clancy, who would give him instructions. Clancy has been summoned b?forc the Los Angeles grand jury, but lias not been arrested, 'lhe name of Olaf Tveitmoe. a very prominent Labour leader in San Fraueiseo, and a close associate of Mayor M.'Cartby, was associated with the rumours of a'n-est. Tveilmoo went East on Labour business, and bis whereabouts was not known for two weeks. The statement was published that he had (led from the. country. But last week he reappeared in Sim Francisco, and in obedience lo a subpoenae. went to Los Angeles to testily. Tillio M'Carlhy, Tveitmoe's stenographer, was also examined 'by the grand jury. It was published that she had informntion of a call made upon Tveitmoe by "Cocky" Schmidt, who was .1. B. M'Numnra's associate in purchasing the. dynamite, and concerning whom it has at; divers times been rumuorcd that he bad been arrested in London, that he was drowned in Pugot Sound, and that ho was in South America Anton .Tohannseu. Slate organiser of the Ctdiforninn Building Trades Council, has also been summoned to Los Angeles. He is said to have talked with Schmidt.

In Indianapolis the grand jury is examining the books of the Tnternationiil Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, of which .T. .1. M'Nnmara was secretary. Thc.-p books, it is claimed, show that a fund of .£2OO was placed at the disposal of M'Namnra every month, and that he was not required to account for the spending of it. Behind the entire investigation is Hip National Krec-tnr.-' Association, a body of employers in tho slructural business! who in Slay, l!!(l(i, declared for tin? "open shop." This association states that in the lost live years it has suffered from 100 explosions'against the property of its members. It has bwm the principal agent in the search for (he offenders, and has frequently charged that there is an inner ring of Labour unionists directing the destruction of non-union structures. It is quite plain (here were others associated with the M'Namaras in (heir nefarious activity, and arrests may be made at any lime.