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Show PRESIDENT'S ANSWER TO IRONWORKERS' PLEA FOR MERCY DUE THIS WEEK Washington, June 22, President Wilson ls expected this week to announce an-nounce a decision on the petition of Prank M. Ityan, former president of the Structural Iron Workers union and the twenty-nlne other defendants in the dynamiting cases, who havo asked for executive clemency". The convicted men are at liberty on ball, but unless the President intervenes, they must go to Jail Thursday. The attorney general is understood to have recommended that Ryan and the others be denied executlvo clemency, clem-ency, but that something might be done for,a few of those receiving lighter sentences. |