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Show LABOR LEADER8 GET NEW TRIAL Chicago, April 29. Tho United States circuit court of appeals today granted the petition of tho government govern-ment for a rehearing of the appeals of Olat A. Tveltmoe, Richard H. Houlihan and William Bernhart, labor la-bor leaders, convicted In' the dyna-mito dyna-mito conspiracy trials In Indianapolis Indianapol-is and granted a new trial by the court of appeals. The court also directed that arguments ar-guments on the petition for & rehearing rehear-ing be set for May 16, and. that all the defendants ln tho dynamite case appear ln court that day. In Its petition for a rehearing of the appeal of Tvoltmoo, Houlihan and Bernhardt tho government contended that ample justification for a verdict ver-dict of guilty ha'd been shown against each of tho three In the trial ln Indianapolis. In-dianapolis. Counsel for tho defendants defend-ants Insisted that tho government was debarred from asking for a reversal of the finding of the reviewing court. The order of the court of appeals directing tho presence of all the men found guilty ln the dynamite trials, whoso cases aro now before tho court was Interpreted today as Indicating that tho court will either direct that they be taken directly to tho Leaven- , worth penitentiary to finish their terms of sentence or that a mandate will be Issued by the court of appeals ap-peals directing the Indiana district court to execute its sentence on the. twenty-four 'defendants who were released re-leased on bonds after tho court ot appeals took Jurisdiction of the caso. |