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Show FOURTEEN LEADERS ARE WO GUILTY CHICAGO, July Fourteen of seventeen labor leaders tried in circuit court hero on e barges of conspiracy con-spiracy to exiort and to destroy property prop-erty were found guilty in a verdict returned re-turned today. Business 'men testified nt the trial that t he labor men carried on a cam paign oi winnow ejnss nreaum and that to oli tn in permission for tho resetting re-setting of ffluss property owners were compelled to pay money to tho defendants. de-fendants. Six of the convicted men were sentenced sen-tenced to imprisonment and eiht were fined. Krnnk Cm-ran, business aent of the painters ' union, was sentenced 1o one year iu prison. J':ink Mader, Ilnyo llahn and Charles ( 'row lev, business j agents of the Fixture Manners' union, I were tfivon three years each, and YV. K. iHialry, business aent of 1 he glaziers' union, and liny Stewart, business ayent, of tho wood finishers' union, two years each. The following business agents and former agents wero fined: John F. Cleary, electrical workers' union ; 1 sad or Cordon, Many 11. Crass nnd W. Vj, .Nestor, painters' union, $JO(ii( each; John W, Murphy, electrical workers' work-ers' union, and ( ieoro Tuck hreil or, painters' union, $."iim each: Charles Hanson Han-son and TS'icholns 1'ekeleuia of the paint-ers' paint-ers' union, :f'I."00 and $7r0, respectively. |