OCR Text |
Show pill HOIS USED ate Official Charges the Workers' Officers With , , Intimidation. ti, THICAGO. Nov. 7. Assistant State's Ifxorney Nicholas M. Mlclioia declared yfay that persons believed to be repre-itaiives repre-itaiives of the Amalgamated Clothing irkcrs of America liad attempted to imidate state witnesses in the Investl-:ion Investl-:ion of charges tliat clothing manufac-w-ers had been compelled to pay the or--JjXliatlon and Its officers $500,000 during WTO last year in "fines" for the settlement ' 1 1 strikes. vH'Whlle I was interviewing a clothing nufacturer at his home last night In If j ;ard to a charge that he had paid $6000 ij the union for the settlement of a -Ike, a man called on the telephone and a t A the manufacturer that he would be TLjLen forty-eight hours to leave the city," fl Id Mr. Michels. "We are having great j. 'Acuity in getting the clothing manufac-3$er8 manufac-3$er8 to tell their stories, but satisfactory Jf-gress is being made In the inquiry." SL- r Michels said that after examining SLjoence seized yesterday in a raid on BaB union headquarters in Chicago ten or SsS've officials of the organization will be HjjBolvcd In the plot when the case Is SRsented next week to the grand jury. 3j said three clothing manufacturers S'e stated that they paid money to the SiBcials of the labor organization. KgKmong the papers taken in the raid are IgHiumber of union cashed checks, which, SkB. Michels says, clothing manufactur-pSW manufactur-pSW had given the officials of the Amal-JaSnatcd Amal-JaSnatcd Clothing Workers of America. V 1 TSW TORK. Nov. 7. The district at-StSkney's at-StSkney's raid Thursday on the Chicago tlPices of the Amalgamated Clothing "iitrkers of America was declared in a Sjttement tonight by Joseph Schloss-HflHg, Schloss-HflHg, general secretary of the union, to iSal part of a "gigantic conspiracy by a EaUup of unscrupulous employers to ln-jsSjJve ln-jsSjJve the. officials in a bribery plot." It Vv$s the Intention, Sehlossberg asserted. Bjjii discredit the union's officials and sap-ike a death blow at the organiza-S organiza-S n," which was first to establish the -S ty-four-hour week for its members and jrce employers to give better wages to ;et the increased cost of living." |