New-York tribune., 1905-07-02
CHARGE LABOR BRIBERY.
FOR STRIKE SETTLEMENT.
Grand Jury Declares Corruption IN
Chicago wholesale.

Chicago July 1.-The Cook County Grand jury.
which for a month has been investigating the
causes and conditions Of the present teamsters
strike returned it's report tonight and with It
forty-nine indictments against men connected In
various ways with recent labor troubles IN Chicago.
Indictments charging intent to commit bodily in
fury and assault with intent to Kill were returned
against thrty-two members Of the TeaBsters'
Union and svmpathizers with that organization,
who have at different times taken part in the riot
ing incident to the teamsters strike II addition
to returning the indictments the jury submitted
long and scathing report dealing with labor cond-
tions in Chicago.
The report cites instances where If is declared
Driscoll one Of the men indicted, settled various
strikes by the use of money Among the cases
cited are the strike of the Chicago City Railway
Company settled within forty-eight hours Driscou
is said to have received $1,000. OF which sum Cor
nelius p. Shea. president Of the international
Brotherhood of Teamsters. is said to have received
5000 and Patrick Mcmahon. business agent Of the
brick, sand and terra-cotta teamsters, 500.
For settling strike at the f. H. Kohlsaat
Bakery Company DrscoH is said to have received
$4,000 more Five hundred dollars is said 10
have been paid by the officers of the National
C1othiers Association to DriscoH to prevent
strike of teamsers in support of the garment work.
ers strike in January. 1903. It is charged that
the Wholesale Clothiers Association paid 20 Robert
Noren. business agent of the garment workers.
81, 500.
1t is also charged that for settling in three
days strike against the Kellogg Switchboard
Company, which had lasted for fifteen days. Dris-
coll received 5000. For the settlement Of the rub
ber workers strike in the factory OF the Morgan q
Wright Company, which lasted six. weeks and
ended four days after Driscoll called to the
rescue, he received 5000. half of which sum hs
divided among teamsters and others who had aided
him in forcing the rubber workers 10 accede 70
their demands. In this DriscOu regularly en-
ployed by the rubber interests Of the country
at a salary of 5000 per annUm to represent them
as labor commissioner, with the extra peTqui-
site of furnishing the coal used at their Chicago
plant which netted DriscoH $3.50 a month
For settling the strike Of the shipping room en-
ployes at the store of Montgomery Ward & Co.
in September 1892 DriscoH is said to have received
s1OO.
For settling a strike at the Kennedy Biscuit Com
pany's plant in January, 1893. DriscoH II Is SAID
received from representative Of the National Bis
cult Company $500 of which sum he paid OUT 20
representative teamsters s1.20 for services reil-
dered in the settlement of the strike
In February. 1893. according to the grand jury
renort DrscoII received 500 for services rendered
in the settlement Of a strike at the Auditorium
Hotel. -. ,
says:
That money was paid to Cornelius P. Shea, or
that money vas rendered him by Teprese1t5iyss
Of the packing industries 70 settle bi n boII! TFa
Shea has benefited by demands made I9r m0qey on On
representatives Of capital has peeh aouidai''is 0
tabIished by satisfactory evidence -. .., s,-
That Cornelius P Shea in one ~ Weeks Jllise T t
sfabIished " i,y the party who sent the money TO
living in Boston InaL Oy llIS a.
SToa,s ".ro1seryatism and thrift are shown 10 De
exceptional when it is known tnat ms 2nly sou soti &
Of income derived from his o1ce as & PzesideJ Tt T
~. 1Searnsters' Union. which pays nm S4S0 a mont
~ eaIarIr and. in the event of strike 3 80 4 DAY
for his individual expenses ,1C.a 1a,,az
That not alone Shea. but Hugh McGee, lanes James
RarrI Edward Mullen, John Gallagher, Jer5II!en
NcTsTthv and Albert Young and otner ana lesser
ateIIites in the labor world have lived on tne I VI
+be Iand money in dlSSlpeIlOn li1AL
many an honest member of the labor union Is 'tule
TO earn for the support of his VIE ana A@'iS' s'S
oSta
Gugging has been paid for by certain vIcloIs @ rs
4aras{ af tbe head OF certain labor organlzatohs.
and this has been attested to by rehaoie ~lLuess'
sin DriScO4PS regime We're St.t
ioed bT1 hin, when representing certain financial
tpfsrests to slug labor sluggerS is a fact