The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1905-07-07
BLACKMAIL CHARGED.
Federal Granj Jury Indicts Business
Men and a Host of Labor
Leaders IN Chicago.

Leaders % Chicago.
A Chicago dispatch says: The Cook
county grand jury, which for a month
has been investigating the causes and
conditions of the present teamsters
strike, returned its report Saturday
night, and with it forty.nne indict-
ments against men connected in W.
rious ways with recent labor troubles
in Chicago. The following are the
indicted:
George c. Prussing, president Of the
Illinois Brick company; Charles Hank,
president Of the Brick. Stone and Ter.
ra Gotta Workers Union; John Gray,
general purchasing agent and distrib-
uting agent Of the Illinois Brick Com
pany.
These four indictments are based
on charges Of conspiracy 10 injure
the business Of independent brick
concerns. whose interests lie in d..
rections opposed TO that OF the Hi.
nols Brick COMPANY the so.caIled
brick trust
A number Of officers of independent
brick companies testified that money
had been spent for expenses in con.
nection with calling strikes against
their plants.
The following were indicted for
conspiracy to injure the business Of
Montgomery Ward & Co..
c rnelius p. Shea, president Inter.
national Brotherhood OF Transfers,
two counts; Jeremiah McCarty, bust.
ness agent OF the Truck Drivers I'm.
ion; John Smyth, president Coal
Transfers Union; George +. Holden,
business agent OF the Packing House
Transfers Union; NJ. +. Kelly, ex.
Grocery Transfers Union; w. j.
Kelly, secretary Of the Coal Team
sters Union; James 3. Barry, bust.
ness agent Express Wagon Drivers
Union; Hugh MCGEE, president Truck
Drivers Union; Harry Lapp, presi.
dent of Baggage and Parcel Delivery
Drivers Union; Steven Sumner, bust.
ness agent OF the Milk Wagon Drivers
Union; Joseph w, Young, BUSINESS
agent Of ire Baggage and Parcel De-
livery Drives Union; w. J. Gibbons,
president Transfers Joint Council:
Albert Young, ex-president Of the In.
ternatlOnal brotherhood OF Transfers,
In addition to the indictments against
the above, true bills charging intent
to commit bodily injury and assault
with intent TO Kill were returned
against thirty-twO members Of the
teamsters' union and sympathlzers
with that organization, who have az
different times participated in the
rioting incident to the teamsters
strike. The jury also submitted a
long and scathlng report dealing with
the labor conditions in Chicago. Fol.
lowing are extracts from the report
THAT the city OF Chicago for years
past has been infested with moral
lepers who have preyed upon its finan.
cial and social strength is known 10
most Informed citizens. That reputa.
BILE business men and reputable citi.
zens employed in all fields OF labor
have been subjects OF blackmail. and
the greed Of these vampires Is also
a well known fact,
THE present srand jury has had
laid before It facts and conditions
so convincing and positive along these
lines that II feels in duty boSnd u
report TO the court and public the
situation as II has been given them
by Witnesses, some OF whom a least
were brazen enough 10 faunt no,
only fragrant acts OF the moral turp..
tude OF others in the faces OF this
body. bu' who, with an air OF great
gless, told Of their own debauches
and criminal acts and methods"
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