Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-05-16 | Page 2 | Bomb Rocks Home of Unionist after Chicago Dairy Walkout

Bomb Rocks Home of Unionist After Chicago Dairy Walkout CHICAGO May 1 16 A n l-n-A A bomb exploded Tuesday night outside the home of a union official who was active in the week end strike of Chicago's A F L dairy workers No one was injured in the blast which rocked the two-story two dwelling dwelling dwelling dwell dwell- ing of Thomas J. J Sr 45 treasurer secretary-treasurer of Local A F L Milk Wagon Drivers Union Haggerty's wife Stasia 45 was knocked to the kitchen floor by bythe bythe bythe the explosion Haggerty was upstairs and their two sons Thomas Jr 14 and James 10 were ere asleep in an upstairs room The explosion heard over a amile amile amile mile radius broke windows in inthe inthe inthe the house and blew off a small section of tile from the roof The bomb which police said appeared to have been made of dynamite was set off outside the dining room window of Haggerty's home homem in m the Beverly Hills district on the far south side Damage was estimated at Police said Haggerty told them he could give no motive for the bombing He said he did not connect connect connect con con- the bombing to the recent two day strike by dairy workers against 75 companies which cut cutoff cutoff cutoff off the city's milk delivery The union drivers and inside dairy workers were granted pay raises