The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-14
DRISCOLL HAS STAGE
CENTER OF INTEREST IN CHICAGO
 LABOR TROUBLE.
His Charges of Brfbery in Connection with Unions of the Windy City
 May Develop Some Scnsa- .4 tionnl Features.

Chicago. June 13.-The teamsters' strike proper has almost been lost sight of. the attention of both sides or the controversy being occupied more with the charges of bribery m connection with labor unions in Chicago than With the real issue. Within the next twenty four hours, 1t was said tonight. his torv of inc secret transactions of labor unions in Chicago for the past four years would be made public and the information would implicate many Iahor leaders who have, it is asserted, accepted bribes to call off strikes
 The man who Is expected to give this Information is John c. Driscoll. former secretary of the Coal Teamsters' Asso- citation, who has been the intermeoiary between the employers and the Team sters' Union in this city for the past four years. Tomorrow MT. Driscon says he win appear before the grand I,tury with documentary evidence snow | ing that several labor leaders have \ been receiving large sums Of money | through Driscoll which. 1t is declared by the latter, the employers were fore 1 ed to pay to prevent their employees be- Inc called out on strike. To substan- ttiate his statements. Driscoll displayed Itonight a bank check book, the stubs Iof which he said correspond to the Iamounts of money paid to these iapor Headers. This bank book will be of fcred in his testimony tomorrow pe- l fore the grand jury. I John D. Driscoll, former secretary oi | the associated teaming interests o. | Chicago. announced today that ne | would go before the grand jury ana l give testimony supported by document arv evidence to show that in two years while holding the office of secretary l of the associated teaming interests, ne l settled more than 400 strikes py tne use Of money with labor officials. Tnese \ strikes, Mr. Driscoll asserts, anecteo | almost every branch of industry m Chi II cago. He takes the position that he II acted merely in the capacity of an ex' II perl who was in a position to bring II about the result that. the employers II who were involved in labor troubles
 sought, namely peaceable adjustment Driscolrs method, according to ms II own account was this:
 H An employer or an organization oi employers who were affected by 2 Fl strike would call and ask him to ust | his influence to bring about anA ad'
 justment of the trouble and exhort fol the organization by whom he was em'
 ployed as secretary. He always refused
 fee for his efforts. The fees paid tho union men ranged from $100 to thou
 sands of dollars, the aggregate prob ably amounting to $50,000. Not ont
 penny was ever passed through Dris coils hands to bring about strike, ac cording to his own assertion.
 'T will prove that this is absolutely
 true" said Driscoll, 'by the evidenc, that have on hand. The charges tha have been 'grafter.' that I have beer paid money to bring about strikes, tha conspired with union officials to lev,
 blackmail on employers under threat O strikes are all made of whole cloth. .see am tired of being abused by tles,
 charges want every business maj that ever had dealings with to gt
 before the grand jury and tell just ex actly what l did for them, what m, fee was. and whether or not delivered the goods.
 | innate to act in the capacity of labo
 capacity have done vastly more goo,
 to Chicago than harm. Many of tn
 strikes that ! settled were fixed in thei
 incipiency and my efforts presente,
 perhaps serious industrial complica
 tions such as the present strike con
 troversy"
 In riot at Waveland Avenue an,
 Janssen Street this afternoon Franl
 Hartmann was shot in the stomach an,
 fatally wounded by Policeman Bunk
 Jones. negro. Jones was guarding l wagon of the Chatfield Lumber Com
 pany and at the corner where the trag
 edy occurred the progress of the wa
 gon was impeded by a crowd of strit,
 sympathizers. Singling out Hartman,
 as the leader of the mob Jones JumDe,
 from the wagon and attempted to ar
 rest him. Hartmann resisted and wa,