Biography
John J. McNamara was the secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers and the brother of James B. McNamara. In the 1910–11 Los Angeles Times bombing case the brothers pleaded guilty; John was sentenced for the related dynamiting of the Llewellyn Iron Works and served about a decade at San Quentin. His case, prosecuted by the state and defended by Clarence Darrow, was a landmark of the class-war labor conflicts of the era.
Page 3's October 5 Indianapolis dispatch reports McNamara at liberty on $5,000 appeal bonds following a blackmail conviction arising from local labor troubles the previous year, with a $1,000 fine and one-to-five-year term pending appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court. This is separately located 1925 legal history, distinct from the 1911 California dynamiting case. The item does not establish actual service of the Indiana term or sufficient political-prosecution evidence to classify it automatically as another political-imprisonment episode. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1925/1925-ny/v02b-n228-NYE-oct-07-1925-DW-LOC.pdf
