THE DYNAMITER.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 3

THE DYNAMITER.

,£4O PEES FOR BLOWING UP .FACTORIES. The confession of Bertie M'Manigal. the professional dynamiter, employed,, it is alleged, by the Ironworkers' Union, formed the absorbing feature of the trial at Indianapolis of forty-five trade union officials charged with organising the systematic destruction of buildings in all parts of tho United States constructed by contractors. who refused to engage exclusively anion labour. M'Manigal (stated the New . Tork correspondent of ' tho "Daily Mail" on November 12) has been, in tho witness-box since tho end of Inst week, \atid it .is probable that ho will not conclude for several days his detailed narrative of tho numerous dynamite outrages he committed. The evidence shows that he was not the !pnly professional dynamiter in the service of the unions. He displayed somo bitterness when recounting how a "job" at Akron. Ohio, was taken away from him by Herbert Hockin, the secretary and treasurer of tho union, on 'the ground that he had promised it to Bomeone else. He speedily discovered that his rival did not know "how to use tho alarm-clock arrangement we had for setting off the fuses." He accordingly rushed to tho scene of the outrage of his own accord to ensure that it was not bungled. Tho Akron building was successfully dynamited on July 4, 1910. After that M'Manigal aays.'he discovered that Hockin was underpaying him and pocketing ,£ls of the £40 allowed by the Ironworkers' Union for each explosion. He protested, with the result that Mr. Frank Ryan, the president of the union, assured him that ho would be paid the full MO thereafter. M'Manigal says he got into trouble with, his employers because ho blew up a power-house at Mount Vernon, Illinois. They said ho had made a mistake, and should havo blqwn up a railway bridge. His pay on that occasion n withheld from him.