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Show 'LIGHT FLASHED INTO TRADE STRIKE ALLUSION TO TRADES UNION METHODS IN 'FRISCO. St?te Opens Case Against Madden, Who Called Strike, Charging Conspiracy Con-spiracy to Extort $1,000. Chicago, May 19. A ray of light was flashed into at least one buildings ; trade strike In Chicago today. In at J least one case there was allusion to tho methods of trades unionism in San Francisco. These features were presented when the stato opened its case against Mar-fin. Mar-fin. B. (Skinny) Madden, president of the associated building trades council of Chicago and his appelates. F. A. Pouchctta and M. J. J3oyle, charged with conspiracy to extort $1,000 from i the Joseph' Klicka company, a Chic-j Chic-j ago concern, against which a strike ; was called. As told in court, the i strike was called by Madden from his j automobile. The blow fell on Novem-j Novem-j her 18 for no apparent reason. The job seemed "regular" and Mr. Klicka sent in D. a. Frazier, a construction i engineer to investigate. Frazier tes-j tes-j tifled that he saw Boyle, who said the strike had been called because ; there was a non-union man working I on it. Vh.en asked how the matter ! could be settled, he said Klicka would i have to see Madden. Frazier declared that Madden had demanded 1.500 as the price of putting the men buck to work. j George Sanres, a construction cn-: cn-: gineer, testified that Klicka fcavV.hlm $1,000 with which to settle the iitike. (Andres having approached .tha'-Tornv ! er with a statment that it could be done for that sum. Andres said he asked Madden if $1,000 would ; settle the strike. "And what did he answer?" j "'Bring up the dough.' So I went to Klicka, got the check and got ten one hundred dollar bills at the bank. It was nlgol before Madden showed up and then I offered him the money. " 'How am I to know if the strike will be called off if I give jou the money?' I asked him. " 'Don't worry,' he said." Andres said he asked Madden what to do v.iih the money and Madden told him to throw it on the floor or on the desk. Andres laid it on the desk and Invited the labor leader out to have a drink. As they moved out Madden dropped a blotter over the money, seized the pile and shoved it into his pocket. Next day the strike was called off. On cross-eexaminatlon by Attorney A. J. Brady of the defense reference was made to San Francisco. "Didn't you tell Madden about unions un-ions In San Francisco and did not you tell him that you had put them out of business there and would do the same thing here?" Andres was asked. He admitted the talk, but denied the threat. "Did you say to Pouchot that he could make a lot of mone If he knew his jobb nnd did not he say he wras satisfied with what he was getting?" "No." "Didn't you tell him that out there a man would stand In a light room and hand the money to a man in a dark room so the man who gave the money never knew to whom he gave it?" This and similar questions brought' forth denials. |