Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-02-14 | Page 2 | 17 Indictments Hit Electrical Trade

17 INDICTMENTS HIT ELECTRICAL TRADE CHICAGO. Feb. 14 (INS1 Seventeen firms and Individuals and a labor union were indicted today by the special federal grand Jury Investigating the building construction con-struction Industry. The Indicted were all connected with the electrical Industry. Michael J. (Umbrella Mike) Boyle, International vice president of the A F L electrical workers' union and for 20 years the controlling con-trolling figure in Chicago's electrical elec-trical unions, was the chief labor union figure named in the indictments. indict-ments. The Indictments charged violation viola-tion of the Sherman antitrust law by conspiracy to prevent the shipment ship-ment of electrical fixtures into Chicago from other states.