Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1912 — LABOR MEN IN ST. LOUIS [ARTICLE]

LABOR MEN IN ST. LOUIS

Alleged They Met to Plan Action on Coast. Hotel Clerk Tells of Conference in 1910—Chicago Man Tells of Hunting Trip. Indianapolis, Jan. 26. —Frank Schilling, a hotel clerk in St. Louis, was called before the federal grand jury in the investigation of the dynamite conspiracy to tell about a meeting of labor leaders at St. Louis in 1910, when; a conference of American Federation of Labor officials was held. Olaf A. Tveitmoe, an official of the California'building trades council now under indictment, and J. J. McNamara were present in St. Louis. -At this time, according to Ortie E. McManigal, McNamara learned of labor conditions on the Pacific coast and said “something must be done out there.” Subsequently McManigal was sent to California and his visit resulted in plans to blow up the Llewellyn iron works. Louis Weiss, a saloonkeeper in Chicago, also testified. He accompanied J. B. McNamara and McManigal on a hunting trip in Wisconsin after the. Los Angeles Times disaster. On this trip detectives who had been following McManigal for weeks learned that J. B. McNamara was the “J. B. Brice?" wanted on the Pacific coast.