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no luck finding them, but there's a matinee at 2:15 today!

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William K. Benson, president of the Detroit Federation of Labor in 1910, and Charles Wachtmeister, business agent of the Iron Workers' union, were accused in the „dynamite conspiracy“ trial, see e.g. The San Francisco call., December 11, 1912, Page 3 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1912-12-11/ed-..., Column 5 San Francisco Call, Volume 112, Number 123, 1 October 1912 cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19121001.2.38# Bisbee daily review., October 10, 1912, Page PAGE TWO chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84024827/1912-10-10/ed-... (with photo of Benson) Charles Wachtmeister was invicted to one year and one day in prison. The Day book., December 30, 1912, Page 7f chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045487/1912-12-30/ed-... A. Entenza is most likely Antonio P. Entenza, a lawyer of Detroit, see Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 by Christopher H. Johnson, Page 54 books.google.ch/books?id=6uyBoG8-qMQC&pg=PA54&lpg... New-York tribune., April 16, 1920, Page 6, Column 6&7 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-04-16/ed-...

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www.rbs.com/heritage/people/connop-guthrie.html "Sir Connop Guthrie (1882-1945) was a public servant and entrepreneur, who served as chairman of North Central Wagon Company, 1928-39."

They arrived on the Olympic on May 11, 1921. "Frederick Benson, a banker of London, came over on the Olympic, accompanied by a group of financial men who are to attend conferences in this country for the further development of timber tract of 450 square miles in British Columbia. Mr. Benson was accompanied by Sir Connop Guthrie, former representative of the British Ministry of Shipping in this city." New-York tribune., May 12, 1921, Page 3, col. 1 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1921-05-12/ed-...

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Herbert O. Benson, rescued radio operator of the sunk ship Merida. In Snopes.com, the article Same Old Slip repeats Benson's first-person account of the collision and his attempts to send an S. O. S. This dispels the myth (along with others in this article) that the Titanic in 1912 was the first ship to to send an S. O. S.