Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1905-07-03
LABOR LEADERS INDICTED.

The Cook county, Illinois, grand jury,
which for a month has been investgat-
ing the causes and conditions of the pres
enl teamsters' strike, returned its report
Saturday night, and with it forty'nine
indictments against men connected III
various ways with recent labor troubles
in Chicago.
Four of the indictments are based on
charges of conspiracy 10 injure the busl'
ness Of independent brick concerns. A
number of officers of independent brick
companies testified that $25, 900 had been
paid to John Gray for expenses in con-
nection with calling strikes against their
plants. Cornelius =. Shea, president OF
the International Brotherhood of Team
sters. was among the indicted, together
with a number of lesser lights.
In additi 10 the indictments against
the men true bills charging intent to
commit bodily injury and assault with
intent 10 kill we're returned against thlr-
ty-two members oithe Teamsters' Union
and sympalhizers with that organization
who have at different times participated
in the riotng incident TO the teamslers'
strike. In addition TO returning the IN.
dictments the jury submitted long and
scathing report dealing with labor condi-
iions in Chicago.
Following are exacts from the report +;
"That the city OF Chicago for years
past has been infested with moral lepers
who have proved upon lis financial and
social strength il known to most inlo'm'
ed citizens. That reputable BUSH es
men and reputable citizens employed IN
all fields of labor have been subject OF
blackmaiI and the greed of these vam-
nircs is also a well-knOwn fact. The
present grand jury has had laid before 1t
facts and conditions so convincing ana
positive along these lines that 1t feels IN
duty bound TO report to the court
and the public the situation as IT
has been given them by witnesses, some
of whom at least were brazen enough to
hannt not only hagrant acts OF moral
turpitude of others in the face OF tins
body, but who, with an airol great lee,
told of their own debaunched and crlml-
nal acts and methods. We beg to IN
form the court that we have positive
evidence that an understanding exls-
fed between one John c. Driscoll,
more recently known as the mediator
between capital and labor, and
one Albert Young, the first president OF
the Coal Teamsters' Union, organized
about 1902. That, as organizer and
first secretary of the Coal Team Owners
Association, John G. Driscoll showed
his peculiar talents. Whereas, prior TO
the organization Of this association, he
had been clerk, working for $50 a
week. he. in the year 1902, received as
compensation for services rendered 81
S97. One thousand dollars of this
money is said to have been received by
DriscolI Tor settling 4 strike at the plan;
of the Stromberg q Carlson Company,
which had lasted for three months,
within twenty-lour hours from the time
he was called is mediator. "
The report then goes on to cite IN
stances where it is declared Driscoll set
tied various strikes 10y the use ofmoney,
dividing with the officers ot the unions.
The report then turns TO G. CTnelius
p. shea. and says: "That money was
paid 10 Cornelius i. Shea, or that
money was rendered TO him by rep
resenialives of the packing indus
tries. 10 settle the stock yards strike has
been demonstrated to this body; that
Shea benefited by demands made for
money on representatives of capital has
been abundantly established by salts
factory evidence. That not alone Shea,
but Hugh McGee, James Barry, Edward
Mullen. John Gallagher, JererIieh Nc
Carthv. and Albtrt Nonng, and other
and lesser satellites in the labor world
have lived on the fat Of the land, spend
ing more money in dissipation than
many an honest member OF the labor
union ia able to earn for the support OF
his wife and family, has been eslab-
lished beyond question.
The report declares "Slugglng has
been paid for by certain vicious interests
at the head of certain labor organiza-
tions. and this has been attested to by
reliable witnesses; that sluggers during
Driscol's regime were employed by him,
when representing certain financial IN
terests, to slug labor sluggers Is a TACT
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