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Show HIP! ITU tf? 41 ONSTAND I j Vice President of the S i Iron Workers Denies E ' Criminal Intent. W j Indiana polia, Ind., Dec J 7 John T. K i Eutler. Buffalo, N. V . vice presidenr of the International Asiociatlon of , ?ridge aud Structural Iron Worsen, , Lestifled a3 a defendant at the 'Vy-:iamite 'Vy-:iamite conspiracy" trial today As the mort prominent union offl- 1 -lal next to President Frank M. Ryen, i Butler is clnrged with sanction. ng an i f '"lloance of $1.00u a month to J I, ?R I McNamara to pay for exp'osions, m Wf 1 "Hiding those at Los Angeles, Cai. -"iflK Butler testified be heard of four ev 1 i nlosions in Buffalo on the work uf j open shop" contractors. J "I was in Buffalo when on'j cn n IE V3p evnlosions oorurrd " he s'lid. 1 I 'earned of tho others only throuj i ncwspaiKTS and I never knew wlm W puscd the destructien of tho war. W, Dynamite or violence never was con- W. 1 sldercd in the councils of the union " In eonnertiou with an explosion of m : be municipal buildinpo at SnringficM m Mass In April 191 1. Butler is accuseJ , of meeting fiypn. Michael J Young of m Pton and otl'cr officials at Hertford. fl Conn to dis'uss explosions II oo- I |