Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-02
KEPT PRESS KEPT
BUSY MALIGNING
ORGANIZED LABOR

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People have become accustomed .
late . read stories In the kept press
% the effect that organised labor has
done some horrible thing OF other
and they are beginning u take the
proserhlal grain ef salt ~ the same
time.
It has always been the plan y
labor union hAterS to create pubic
sentiment against the union move
ment. and they lose no chance 20 play
up IN the newspapers any crime 81
supposed crime that can be laid At
the door Of labor. Manufactured
evidence and frame ups against union
officials are common weapons In the
hands of labor exploiters. Anything
10 get the union man in bad with the
public. We have heard where ia the
case of a street car strike, officials
of the car line have hired strike
breakers 10 throw bricks through the
car windows and place ties ON the
tracks, with the intent 10 discredit the
union.
In Chicago there is labor var
that is more imaginary than real.
Buildings have been burned, accord
ing TO the kept press. BY union men,
and scare heads have announced this
new horror" to the public, but when
the truth Is learned, il Is announced
in some obscure corner of the paper
where the public will not see IL, If II
is announced at all.
Some recent developments show the
attitude Of the kept press toward or
ganized labor:
Chicago.-Terror by torch in the
hands of tabor gunner" heralded
BY the Tribune in huge black type
extending across eight columns of
page one when an unfinished apart
ment burned has fixzled down into
the accidental consequences of boys IT
play.
The corrected story of the labor
reign of terror" is now carried on
an inside page of the Tribune as the
tail end Of the daily anti-labor ar
ticle which begins as usual ON page
one.
Information furnished yesterday
by Capt. Patrick Gallery of Rogers
Park police" the Tribune incon-
spicuously reports. indicated that
the IMPAIRMENT building at 77l5
Sheridan road was fired BY boys At
play Tuesday night and not in re-
prisal for the employment of workers
under the Lands award.
Detroit--Clumsy efforts to discredit
the motion picture operators union
are being made here in connection
with a recent bombing of a motion
picture theater and the reported dis
covery of bomb planted in another
house May 10.
Following a hurry call to the po-
lice department from the Amo the
alter, which is run by non-union work.
men, detective bureau flyer with
siren screaming was rushed to the
scene. The officers expected to ind
building destroyed and several slain
but they found only neighborhood
hysterical with rumors. The detec-
tives are said to have description OF
the man who placed the bomb but
they were unable to find any bomb
or evidence of bomb.
Bellefonte, Pa.--What appears to
have been frameup murder by coal
interests and the state police against
union leader was foiled when An
drew Lesko, president Of the Clar-
ence local union, was acquitted N the
Centre county court house OF the
killing of Joe Verbitsky.
Lesbos arrest last March came
out of a clear sky. Another man
had been tried and acquitted for the
crime nearly four years ago, and
witnesses produced against him had
kept quiet for four years.
Reports reached officials Of Dis
trict 2 of the United Mine Workers
that Sergt. McHugh and other state
policemen had been savagely third
degreeing Lesko in the effort to ex,,
tort confession. His body showed
ugly bruises where he had been
beaten. When Attorney Joe kintner
of the miners legal department
came there, with local attorney
named Clement Dale, they were re-
fused admittance to the jail to see
their client.
Chicago.-Scare headlines announc-