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Show ilCAGO UNIONS STRIKE BACK I $50,000 SUITS I FILES AGAINST I POLICE CHIEF Unions Ask $200,000 for Alleged False Arrest and Jailing CONFESSION CLAIMED Disappearance of One In dieted Leader Surprise to Department CHICAGO, Mav 13 Four damagt cults for $50,000 each, alleging fSjhK 'f i rresl and imprisonment following po ;lice raids on tho headquarters of th' Chicago Building Trades Council on last YVednesdaj. were filed tod.-i iCI against chief of Police Fitsmorrls an I fl Other directing officers of the depart- IM ment. The actions are in behalf of Em- ij Imett Flood, a general organizer for H the American Federation of Labor, his son. a member of the Fixture Hangers' i H union, ami his aaugnier, an oi wnonj , were taken Into custody. S'wH ONK H AS I ,"s APFTV The ''smpe of one of the eight lahor H Leaders indicted on charges of mur- dcr In connection with tho reign of 1 fl bomb and gun terrorism and rumors , H that confessions had been obtained f from several of the scores of prison- VB . rs still being held by tho police. ' marked Investigation of recent lawless H o itbri iks which nave heen blamed on ifjfl labor warfare In the building trades. UtBl The sudden departure from the p--- H lice ken of Jerry-' Horan. indicted jpl with Fred Mader. president of the (E Fulbllng and Trades Council. "Big IS rri r V. U-v.. . e , W, ,. rLam W r,r L- I It Mkt ers' union and out on bonds follow-in? jgjH his conviction and sentence to the tfrl penitentiary on a charge of mail rob- ijtfl bery. and Cornelius ("Con") Shea, wh. 'ii'l directed the 1904 teamsters' strike, was jf!l first noted when the indictments w.t jl i sturned. ON ICTNOR CHARGE Not knowing of the more serious Iwl charges pending against Horan, the IJftl police had booked him for disorderly IWl conduct and he was later freed on $" (uil i bonds. He Is believed to have fled rill from the cit Inl The admissions obtained from pri-- .ill oners, according to the police, direct- BI ly involve three of the men being held III In the slaying of two policemen an H the wo-mding of a third by bombers U early Wednesday. It was this outbreak (SB the culmination of a long series of M disorders, which started the present In- 9 VCStlgation and led to tin- r.il'!- IH a hi' h more than 150 labor leaders and f 'gunmen were seized by the police in 11 'the most spectacular roundup In the it'fl history of the city Of those seized. IHJ besides those under Indictment, th 1H majority have been released because of 9H1 I ack of evidence. 1H oo FSiH |