The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-10
Murphy, Nader and Shea Held
in Deaths of Two Policemen.
Police Raid Building Trades
Headquarters for BOmbeKs.
SAY LABOR LEADERS CAUSE
Chief of Police Says War With
Cops Just Started.
Says "Big Three" Only POsers
and Not Real Labor Heads.

Chicago, May 1o.-The police today
raided the building trades labor head
quarters and arrested three of Chi
cago's biggest labor leaders-BiE Tim
Murphy, Fred Nader and Cornelius
Shea-in connection with bombings
and shootings which early today re-
suited in the death of two policemen
and serious injury of a third.
Murphy, known as Chicago labor
car is out on bail after having been
sentenced to seven years in the prison
in connection with the $400. 900 Union
station mail robbery. Nader is prest-
while Shea heads the teamsters'
union.
All records were seized.
Chief of Police Fitzmorris, In or
dering the arrest of Murphy, Nader
and Shea, issued the following state
Calls Them HOodlums.
The slaughter of the two police
officers while they were on duty Is
an Inevitable result of tactics en-
and the other hoodlums and ex-con-
victs who have been going about pos
ing as leaders of labor.
Now that they want war with the
police they snail have it. They are
just as guilty of the murder of these
policemen killed last night as were the
anarchists of the police killing in the
Haymarket riot.
''They no more represent honest
organized labor than the anarchists
did. Labor does not need them and
the police department will not have
| them around"
He Takes 'em All In.
Chief Fitzmorris announced at
O'Clock that every important official
in the building trades council was un-
der arrest.
The bombing and murders early to-
day eliminated a series of disord ers
and charges of crookedness and graft
which have been going on for some
/ time.
| Recently the states attorneys office
conducted a special grand jury inquiry
| into the trials of various labor leaders.
who were not found guilty of graft
extortion, murder and other offenses.
altho the state seemed to have clean
Ruled by "Gun Mem
In one case a juror confessed that
he was paid $1,000 to vote not guilty
and that he was promised $1,000 for
every juror he could persuade to vote
| the same way.
Judge Kickham ScanIon. in charR-
ing this grand jury, declared that labor
| in Chicago WAS ruled by gun men,
\ thugs and ex-convicts. He called on
, the city to rid itself of them or become
"A race of yellow men"
Bombs Are Frequent.
uuTltS LilG past year nave
become so frequent that they no
| longer attract much attention un-
! less accompanied by other violence.
Numerous laborers, who have at
! tempted to return to work under the
| lands award which was rejected by
| the trades unions after they agreed
to accept it, have been slugged-
Murphy has been taken into custody
| innum cradle times in connection with
murders robberies and similar Of
fenses but only at intervals have tha
police been able to obtain conYiction.
| He is known to be very wealthy ana
| lives in a fashionable north side resi-
Dental section.
Negroes Bombing in X. C.. Mo-
! Kansas City. Mo. A bomb hurled
from a motor car early today, wrecked
the porch and front of a house occu-
/ pied by Harvey n. Williams, a negro.
Williams recently was warned, he de-
! clared, by a delegation of white citi-
zens. to move from the neighborhood,
but refused.