Arizona republican., 1922-05-11
LEADERS
JAILED AF TER
WARFARE ENDS
IN Deaf H Of Z
Chicago Patrolmen Slain
Following Bombing OF
Two Buildings - Terms
Leaders "Ex-Convicts"
TRepubiIcan A. P. Leased WireI


CHIC AGO, May To- Ere d
"Frenchy" Nader, president of the
Chicago Building Trades Council
and more than $50 other labor lead
ers, We're being held tonight after
having been caught in dozen spec
tacular raids on various union head
quarters today.
The roundup resulted from the
murder of two patrolmen and the
wounding of another in a running
pistol fight in which the killers
eluded the police last night. The
two murders followed the bombing
of two buildings, the elimination Of
series of disorders believed by the
police to have been due to labor war
fare in the building trades.
In ordering today's raids. Charles
G.. Fitzmorris, chief OF police, de-
clared that some of fh@ labor leaders
We're just as guilty OF the murders
of the two policemen as were the
He characterized the killings as
Slaughter and termed the labor
leaders "hoodlums and ex-convicts. 2
Il have the officers and represen-
tatives of every union in the build
ing trades council, and some other
unions, too, represented among those
arrested" Chief Fitznorris said after
the raids late this afternoon. "Those
arrested win be treated like ordinary
prisoners and held until they can be
questioned,
The list OF those taken into Gus
tody included the names of some of
the men who have been known for
years as the leaders OF labor in Chi
cago. Among them were big Tim
Murphy president of the gas work
ers' union, and Cornelius (Con) Shea.
leader of the Teamsters' strike in
1904 Murphy, known as Chicago's
labor czar," has been out on bail
after having been sentenced recently
to seven years in the penitentiary in
connection with the 100000 Union
Station mail robbery.
The raids came as a complete sur
prise. the first being made on the
headquarters of the building trades
council where a squad of men from
the detective bureau suddenly ap-
peared at the entrance of the build
ing. The raiders slammed the doors
and then kept them shut with threats
of shooting. A score of labor lead
ers were found closeted in confer
ence. They were taken into Gus
tody Immediately and all the books
and documents in the office seized.
Raids continued on other labor
headquarters and saloons known to
have been used as hangouts by slug
gers and gunmen who have been con-
nected by the police with many re-
cent bombings and shootings. Scores
of men We're arrested in these minor
raids and a large supply Of pistols,
sawed off guns and ammunition
seized.
Late in the day efforts were made
to obtain the freedom of several Of
those held on writ of habeas corpus,
Among those whose release was
sought in this way were Nader,
Muorphy. Shea, Thomas Maloy, Al
Johnson, Thomas Reynolds and
Frank Clifford. After consulting
with the police, Judge kicl1ham
Scanlon denied the requests and
made the writs returnable at noon
tomorrow. Among those held tonight
were between fifteen and twenty
women.
The nights reign of terror and
b10OQSneu, which resulted IN the
raids, started shortly after midnight
when a bomb was exploded in a
garage causing damage estimated at
$4,000 1t was hurled through
rear window. 1t was said that the
company has been employing glaziers
under the Landis wage award. A
short time afterwards a policeman
guarding the plant of the Sharp and
Partridge company where there have
been labor troubles, saw an automo-
bile stopped near the curb. There
were three or four men in the car
and one of them shot and killed the
patrolman as he approached to in
spect the machine, which was then
driven rapidly away.
Flying squads" from the detective
bureau Immediately began search for
the car, It was one of these auto
fleeing car on the southern outskirts
that followed between the occupants
of the two speeding cars. another
patrolman was shot and killed While
a third, Albert Moeller, was wounded.
The .slayers escaped. Later the BAN
dit car was found, riddled with bull
lets, and abandoned on the outskirts
of the CITY,
Recent labor troubles have been
attributed by the police to dissatis-
faction on the part of certain unions
with the Lands wage award. This
award was made by former Judge
X. NJ. lands, while acting as a
mediator between the building trades