The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-06-08

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reason that smuggling is nothing new
here.
The idea must not be gained that every
union in this city has employed men in
murderous missions. for such is not the
case. Many have stuck rigidly to the
straight and narrow path in their fights
with the employing class, allowing moth
ing but persuasion to enter into the sur
rounding conditions of the strike.
Will Benefit Honest Unions.
One benefit of the expose, one in which
the unions will gain, is pointed out by
Louis A. Heile, a prominent labor at
torney. He says:
Il believe that the arrest and confess
sions of these men will have great In
fluence upon the labor situation in this
city. The rank and file of the labor or
CARNATIONS have been kept in almost
total ignorance of the manner in which
strikes are conducted. know that the
great majority of the members of the
Carriage and Wagon Workers union
in fact, nearly all of the members who
are not on the executive board-knew
nothing of what was going on. and were
as much surprised as the general pub
lie when they read of the revelation
which followed the arrest of these men.
Unionists Disprove Smuggling.
Il know that this is the view that the
majority of the unionists in the city
will take of the matter. had occasion
to discuss the present investigation with
four union men, one of whom is brick
layer, another plumber and another a
street car man. They told me they were
glad that the men who connived at MUIR
der had been apprehended, and hoped
they would be punished.
''The sooner we get rid of the kind OF
fellows who are paying these sluggers
the better it is for u.s. said one of them
to me. If we had cut them out before
we could never have strike like the
Transfers walkout in Chicago
I'VE mean to prosecute the investiga-
ton which we have begun vigorously,
and as long as there is anything further
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facturers association is, of course, inter-
ested in the prosecution of the men who
have been smuggling the employees Of it's
members. We are not going to stop there,
however. We want to know all about
what the officers of other unions have
been doing in the matter of employing
men to slug honest workingmen. l be-
Hoy0 hot hy,I <,ir r,to
to the acts of violence which have dis
graced not only the labor unions but the
city.
Gives Praise to LAWN.
I also want to say that believe In
spector LAWN and his detectives cannot
be complimented too highly for the work
that they have done in this case. be-
lieve they have performed one of the
cleverest pieces of detective work in the
history of the Chicago police depart
ment. They began without SO much as a
clew to the identity of the assailants Of
Carlstrom. and they continued their
work until they have disclosed the man
ner in which strikes seem to be conduct
ed in Chicago.
VIC nave I'LL hUONu lOE d lOuS llulH
in q general way that the men wholat-
tackled nonunion men and who some
times killed them were not always men,
bers Of the unions on strike. 1t re-
NAMED for Inspector LAWN and his men
to get definite proof of the truth. This
has never been done before. believe
that not alone in Chicago, hut in other
cities, it has been found Impossible
heretofore to get at the inside workings
Of the unions"
And now to send these nefarious GRIM
tnals to the gallows is the cry which is
heard from the citizens of not only Chi
csgo, but every city which is likely to ell
counter just such proposition as has
confronted the authorities here. Every
thing is ripe for adjusting the moose, but
one question still remains. How many
besides the three or four directly impli-
Gated are to suffer? Advances along
this line as yet are little more than con-
lecture, and nothing but the machina-
tfons Of the wheel of justice can decide.
W. w. GARRISON.