The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1910-11-12
FAMILIES Of LABOR
LEADERS Prosecuted: :
BY GEL, OTIS THUGS

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. g.
Batting of union leaders wives and
children by sleuths and henehmen OF
Earl Rogers and the district attor-
neys office has become so bitter
that they are moving their families
to hotels for protection.
Charles M. Fielder, organizer for
the BARRIERS Union, who has been
cherished target Of anti-unionism,
moved his wife and child from their
hotel, after Mrs. Fielder had been
terrorized to the verge of nervous
prostration by continuous annoyance
by detectives and a final two hours
sweating in an office of the district
attorney by Earl Rogers, who is in
the employ of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association.
Fielder left Los Angeles on a busi-
ness trip.
Early on the following day Mrs.
Fielder was started by the appear
ance of Detectives Jones' and Car
roll, whose sharp knocking brought
her to the door, although she was
not yet fully dressed
1--WE are officers of the law" Car
roll announced. "You are wanted up
at Captain Planners office to talk
with District Attorney Fredericks
and Earl Rogers
Mrs. Fielder, trembling replied
that she would go as soon as she
could dress. At this promise the de-
tectives walked into the yard
Mrs. Fielder who was vry much ex-
cited and at loss what to do,
hurried to the telephone in the front
Of the = house where the FEEDERS
lived. She, intended to call up some
of her, friends at the Labor Temple
and ask advice. = ~
There she was confronted by the
landlord and. told she could not tele-
phone because the telephone was out
of order.
Russian Police Methods.
Mrs, Fielder then went back to her
rooms. She had just returned when
the pair of sleuths forced their way
in.
I'VE know what you have been
about Jones shouted. "Your COM
munication is cut off from every one.
If you want anything We'll get it for
you, but you're in our charge now"
Under \pretense that they would
get Fredericks and Rogers to come to
the Fielder rooms, the detectives left.
In reality they telepho,led for
subpoena.
Armed with a bogus subpoena, the
two sleuths returned and took Mrs.
Fielder to the office Of the district
attorney.
Here for two hours she was alter
torney Earl Rogers. The lawyer
painted the Times catastrophe in all
it's horror. He followed this with
inuendo questions in regard to con-
versation Mrs. Fielder had over a
telephone with woman friend. A
remark. "something important was
distorted into "something terrible"
Rogers professed to believe this
was a direct reference to the Times
disaster, made before it occurred.
Mrs. Fielder was allowed to go
when she answered the running
fire of questions Rogers had arrayed
on five sheets of paper before him.
Left Her in Mysteries.
Frightened to the point Of l1systeria
she telegraphed to her husband to
return.
Fielder, on getting back to Los
Angeles. decided to move his wife
to a hotel. She had been worried
for month by the insistent shadow
ing and annoyances of detectives.
Men were peeping through her win
dows at all hours of the day and
night. They knocked at her door and
assailed her with all manner of per-
sonal and impertinent. questions.
Detectives have lain under the
house beneath the Fielder rooms lis
tening to FEEDERS conversations with
his wife.
>. Desiring to evade this batting, Fei-
der planned to move. Before the left,
however, he went to police headquar-
ters and demanded that his rooms
be searched before he quit them.
= II don't want any bombs, infer
nal machines or discriminating evil
dence found in my rooms after 1
co." he tersely explained.
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