The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-07-06
Chicago Labor Unions Used
by Inscriptions Men.
SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT
The Federal Grand Jury at Chicago
Returns Thirty-Nine Indictments
Against Labor Leaders and
Business Firms.

| A Chicago dispatch says: The Cook
county grand jury, which for mopth
has been investigating the causes and
conditions Of the present teamsters'
strike, returned it's report Saturday
night, and with it forty.nine indict-
ments against men connected in va-
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 distrih-
uting agent Of the Illinois Brick Com
pany.
These four indictments are based
on charges of conspiracy to injure
the business Of Independent brick
concerns, whose interests lie in d.
rections opposed to that Of the ILL.,
nois Brick company, the so-called
"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.:
Cornelius P. Shea, president Inter,
national Brotherhood Of Teamsters,
| two counts; jeremiah Mccarty, bust:
ness agent Of the Truck Drivers Un-
ion; John Smyth, president Coal
Teamsters' Union; George F., Holden.
business agent of the Packing House
Teamsters' Union; M. F. Kelly, ex:
business agent Of the Market and
Grocery Teamsters' Union; w. J.
Kelly, secretary Of the Coal Team.
sters' Union; James B. 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 tre Baggage and Parcel Do
livery Drivers Union; w. ]. Gibbons,
president Teamsters' Joint Council;
Albert Young, ex-president OF the In.
! ternational Brotherhood OF Transfers.
/ In addition to the indictments against
the above, true bills charging intent
to commit bodily injury and assault
with intent to xii! were returned
against thirty-two members of the
teamsters' union and sympathizers
with that organization, who have at
different times participated in the
| rioting incident to the teamsters'
strike. The jury also submitted
long and scathing 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 it's flnan-
cial and social strength is known to
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 grand jury has had
laid before it facts and conditions
so convincing and positive along these
lines that it feels in duty bound to
report to the court and public the
situation as it has been given them
by witnesses, some Of whom at least
were brazen enough to faunt not
only aagrant acts of the moral turpi-
tude Of others in the faces of this
hody, but who, with an air Of great
gless, told Of their own debauches
and criminal acts and methods.