LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, Page 5

LOS ANGELES OUTRAGE.

APOSTATES AND RECREANTS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Washington, December 8. The American Federation of Labor, at a special session, branded the MacNamara brothers as apostates and recreant to the good name and ideals of Labor. INVESTIGATION PROMISED. Received 10, 5.15 p.m. New York, December 0. Los Angeles reports that a widespread investigation of all dynamiting conspiracies of recent years will lie undertaken by a Federal Grand Jury at Indianapolis, where the MacNamaras were arrested. The Grand Jury are taking similar action. The crime in which the MacNamaras and their fellow prisoner, Ortie McManigal, were alleged to have been implicated, involved the death of 120 persons and the destruction of property valued at over £700,000. The explosion at the Los Angeles Times office caused a score of deaths and a loss of property valued at £IOO,OOO. The other outlages included the destruction of a car dump of the Susquehannah Coal Company at Erie, Pennsylvania; two dynamite explosions at the new plant of the Iroquois Iron Company, in South ; Chicago; the blowing up of a big viaduct on the MoKinlev traction system: the wrecking of the unloading bridge of the Milwaukee-Western Fuel Company; two dynamite explosions at property of the Caldwell and Brake Iron Works, at Columbus, Indiana; the damaging of an ore-convever on he Erie railroad right-of-way at North Randall, Ohio; the destruction of Streeter's viaduct at South Bend; the blowing up of the tower of the municipal building at Springfield, Massachusetts. It will be observed that the majority of the explosions occurred on the works or other property of iron or coal companies. John MacNamara, it may be noted, was secretary of the International Association of Structural Ironworkers.