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Show MANY KNEW IN ADVANCE California Iron Workers Officials Urged Blowing Blow-ing Up the Times Indianapolis, Ind , Nov 8. Four months of activity on the part of labor leaders on the Pacific coust preceded pre-ceded the fatal explosion In Los Angeles, An-geles, according to letters nnd tolo-grams tolo-grams Introduced bj the government at tho trial of the 45 accused "dynamite "dyna-mite plotters'yesterday. From telegrams and letters read to the jury the government set forth this part of Its contention as fol- lows: Four months before the Times building was blown up Eugene A Clancy, a labor leader In San Fran-1 Cisco who had been instructed to In- vestlgate labor conditions In Los An-1 gcles, telegraphed to John J McNa-mara McNa-mara in Indianapolis- "The fight Is ou ,n Los Angeles We are going to win. Send Hockln at once." , , McNamara, after referring the request re-quest to Frank M- Ryan, president oH tho International Association or Drldge and Structural Iron Workers. wired Clancy: ...,' "Better got a man In Los Angeles to do tho work". Hockln too busy In tho east " ', , , It was about this time, accord- to Ortlc E McManl?al's confession, that Herbort S. Hockln v.-as leader ot the "dynamiting crew." Clancv went to Seal tie and on August Au-gust IO! 1910, II. W. Pohlman, a a-bor a-bor leader there, wrote to J. J. McNamara: Mc-Namara: , , . .... "Clancy mot his man here aftci waiting a week for him and he being here every day. I think I understand the situation." James McNamara was then In se- nttlo aud the government charges that ' Clancy met him there On August -I an office buljdln? under construction 'n Seattlo was blown up. At thio time $1,000 was voted uv Lho Iron workers' union executive board to the California bulldlns trades cuncll for U3e in promoting tho union un-ion at Los Anccles. A receipt for the amount, signed by OlaT Tvoitmoo, Becretary or the council, was produced. pro-duced. James B. McNamara in the meantime mean-time visited San Francisco and later lat-er went to I os Angeles, where ho blew up the Times building October I Clancy visited Michael J. Young, Boston, Bos-ton, another dcrendant, but, according accord-ing to telograms, hurried back to San Francisco, when he hcaul 01 persons had been killed. The government claims that tho evidence ev-idence shows that McXnmain's mission mis-sion to the coast wns known to Tvelt-moe. Tvelt-moe. Clancy and J. E. Munsuy or Salt Lake City, who Is charged with harboring har-boring tho dynamiter tor two weeks arter the explosion. Testimony that dynamite wa8 taken to the Iron workers' headquarters in Indianapolis to within a tow weoks berore tho McNamaras were arrested arrest-ed was given by Martin J Ilylnnd. chier or police of Indinnupolls. Ho Identified newspapers that had been wrapped about four packages of dynamite dy-namite They were newspapers rrom Clovoland Pittsburg, and Cincinnati, the latcBt being dated April 3, 1911. |