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Show IClCAGO GANG TERRORISTS 1 HOLD CITY IN BUR GRASP Better Class of Mechanics Fear Death or Violence If They Take Stand Against Alleged Crime Methods of Their Leaders ' 1 1 BY JAMES W. K ESTER Spo1nl Correspondent or The Standard -I 'uimincr. (Cojorright, 1922, by The Standard-j Standard-j Examiner I CHICAGO, May 2V For years the feat, the aawctl-off shotgun, the blacks' black-s' Jack, the bomb. Now the torch. Gang ! terrorist-' apparent!) atop at nothing to hold Chli ago In their grasp an.) they )l pp rate now In the namo o union II labor A siege of robbery and sluRglngs. I bombings ami shootings as a protest ji against the union wage award tor the B huildlng trades, fixed by Judge landls, reached Us climax a few night ug In the wanton killing of two policemen ! nnd the wounding of a third by a gang i of bombers out on a dynamiting expedition. ex-pedition. Since then Chicago ha- witnessed wit-nessed perhaps the most gigantic drive against outlawry since the days of the famous Hay market riot of the "80s. Hr More than 150 union chieftains and I. Jhelr lieutenants were rounded up In J sensational daylight raids on union Hrongholdn and dozens of gunmon and I thugs were seized In an effort to run B to earth the killers and end the rolgn t i' lawlessness here. Among the eight then subsequently lndictod for killing i th- two policemen were a trio of the I city's most prominent labor leaders and all Chicago gasped when Chief of j Police. Fltzmorrls dared to arrest them. B-j One was "Big Tim" Murphy, long a powerful and picturesque Figure in the labor world here, now under sen- fence to six years In prison for a dar-Hj dar-Hj !ng $350,000 mail holdup at Dearborn j ptreet station last year. The "un crowned king" of the building trades, B the newspapers call him, Another was Fred Madcr, president of tho council, with a term In Jollet pentltentlary B fnr labor conspiracy behind him The third is Cornelius "Con" Shea, a union B secretary, once sentenced to Sing Sing B lor carving up his sweetheart whllti I unnking i VCCI SFTD OF MURDER These, with the other five men In-i In-i :-d. lesser labor lights, are accused bf murder under an Illinois statute frhich makes anyone who Incites or Induces murder equally guilty with those who act. It Is admitted that nono of the eight had part In tho actual act-ual slaying. The police also have arrested ar-rested John Miller, a police character who was confessed driver of the ticath car. Following arrest of tho labor men, Spirited court battles were started to obtain their release. Moat of them Were soon freed on habeas corpus writs put the principal ones were held. It twi-. hoped that this stroke would. In turn, strike terror to the hearts of the terrorists. Threats of death then began be-gan to pour In on chief of police, th- rlff and other officials unless the labor chief tains were released. I ne message gave warning that If the leaders were not freed fire would hr. ik out In every section of the city. This threat was not taken seriously lint. I a few days later At about seven o'clock in the evening, fire started In a half million dollar 72 apartment hotel nearlng completion at fashlon-e fashlon-e Rogers park- The building was practically destroyed. It was being . n ted partly by non-union men working under tho Iandls award. Officials Of-ficials are convinced that the flro was tho work of terrorists. UNIONS ARE BLAMFJ It Is not the law enforcement officers of-ficers alone who blame tho unions for 1h outlawry. Speaking before St. L ukes Men's club last Friday Chief Justice Kickham Scanlan of the criminal crim-inal court said: There have been IS bombs thrown In Chicago in the lost 60 days. If Mayor Thompson would call In 'Big Tim Murphy and Fred Mader and gay! 'One more bombing and one more .shooting and you men will hang,' most of this trouble would be done away (with. Many union leaders are spitting In the f:n-e of Justice. Leaders must . be bribed before a building is put up.'' Charges of grafting by union agents i in Chicago became so general that the legislature appointed a special Investigating Inves-tigating oommltioo last summer. Evidence Evi-dence was uncovered that thousand! ! of dollars had been paid out by bulld-I bulld-I era to prevent strikes Indictments 'were many but convictions nil Among those tried were Blmon O'Dotinell, former head of the building trades 'council, and William F Quease, chief of tho Flat Janitors' union. Both are 'being re-trled after acqulttnl because jurors confessed being bribed to vote not guilty " Meanwhile the grafting goes merrily on. Buililerr, must either submit or suspend work Here Is how It works I A contractor Is permitted to hire non-union workers if the unions can-'not can-'not supply enough When he does he has a visitor. "My men ore kicking against working work-ing with non-union men," the business agent tollb tho builder. ' They want to strike and it will cost you money to keep them at work "How much?" the contractor asks Wall," replies the agent, "soy I about $600 now and a dollar a day for each of the men at work until tho building Is completed." The union men on tho Job have to pay with the others, submitting, through fear of being thrown out of work. Wh don t the honest union' men oust the dishonest leaders0 They reply that It Is as much as a man's , 1 1 r - is worth to arise at some union! meetings and demand the removal of I certain officials. If he do; he Is I waylaid and beaten on his way home.! Not long ago there was some agitation agita-tion against a certain business agent. Tho height of the election he arrived at the hall with a crowd of followers all known "bad mnn "- The agent sat down at a table, drew a revoher and laid It In front of him. "Gentlemen, the- voting will now bo-1 gin," he announced, with an ugly, look. As tho ballots wore brought to him, so goes the story, ho counted them carefully, then tore up the slips and declared : "I'm re-eleoted." Immediate rollof from rolgn of terror ter-ror Is not looked for although Judge; Scanlan sees an Improvement over conditions as they were sixty days ago. "About 400 of Chicago's worst criminals crim-inals have been shipped out of town." ho aald today, "and by July the city will be about half clvlllied." Chief Fltzmorrls declares there Is to be no letup In tho war of the police on tho terrorists dospito tho fact that: they have marked him for assassination assassina-tion Guards have boon placed on all buildings being erected under tho Lan-dls Lan-dls award with orders to shoot to kill all persons seen prowling around the premises after dark. |