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Show . f, LETTERS IMPLICATE THE IRON WORKER8 Government Charges That "Dynamite Conspiracy" Began In 1905. Indianapolis, Nov. 1. Going bock to a strike of tho Iron Workers' union against brldgo constructors In 1905, tho government at iho "dyna-mlto "dyna-mlto conspiracy" trial today read letters let-ters purporting to show that vlo-lonco vlo-lonco was tho beginning of tho "campaign "cam-paign of explosions" later carried on by tho McNamaras. All tho forty-flTO men now, on trial, the eorernment charges aro implicated by the letters. The first exhibit was a letter written writ-ten by Frank Buchanan, then .president .presi-dent of the International Association of Brldgo and Structural Iron Workers, Work-ers, tj J, J. McNamara saying: "If a majority of tho executive board approves, ap-proves, a strike should do ordered." A strlko was ordered against a bridge company which had sub-lot a contract con-tract to a Boston constructor who employed noa union men. In connection connec-tion with this It was pointed out that an oxploslon ocurred at Millers Falls, Mass., In December, 1905. Mr. Buchanan's letters wero devoted devo-ted to tho union's business, directing the strike. A letter from McNamara to Frank M. Ryan, who succeeded Buchanan, had authorized a member named McClory to do sorao missionary mission-ary work In Toledo, "and that $150 was appropriated for that purpose." McNamara, said McClory, employed four men, of whom two wero arrested, arrest-ed, for assault, and added that an attorney said, If tho man pleaded guilty they would bo paroled, but that after the men wero convicted, tho central labor union of Ohio adopted adopt-ed resolutions against members of tho board of public service and n pa-rolo pa-rolo could not bo had. McNamara said ho had promised the men pay for Mie time they were in Jail. A telegram was read from John T. Butler, Buffalo, vice president of tho union, to McNamara, about a suggestion sug-gestion "I would not care to put In writing." Tho government alleges tho suggestion referred to violence. |