Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 4 | Clemency is Asked for Union Leaders

CLEMENCY IS ASKED FOR UNION LEADERS WASHINGTON. Nov. P. President Wilson Wil-son was asked again today by a delegation delega-tion of union lcader.i to commute the sentences sen-tences of former officers of the Structural Ironworkers' union now serving terms in Leavenworth penitentiary for their convictions con-victions in connection with the so-called dynamite conspiracy, which involved the destruction of the Los Ansetes Times and ramified throughout the country. i.'lcmcncy was asked for Frank M. Tlyan of IndianapoIiM. former president of tho ironworkers, and twelve others. Tt was represented to the president that the men have served about one-third of their terms and that the prison record of each has been exemplar'. A year auo appeals for pardons were refused. re-fused. The president listened attentively 1 and look the appeal under advisement. I . .