The New York herald., 1922-05-12
EIGHT LABOR CHIEFS
|NDICTEDN CHICAGO
| REICNOF TERRORISM
E6. 100000 Pledged to End
Grimes as Judges Say That
State of War Exists.
HINTS OF vIGILANTES
Dne Jurist Says Anarchists
Plot Treason and City
Fights for Its Life.
THUGS HAD PRICE SCALE
Plain Slugging Cost $50 and
Front Page Job Cost
Up to $3.50.
THUGS HAD PRICE SCALE

Special Dispatch to THE New YoRK HERALD.
CHICAGO, May IL. Indictments
tgainst big Tim" Murphy. head Of
he Gas Workers Union; Con" Shea,
4 convict and head Of the Theater
Hanitors Union. and Fred Nader.
president of the Chicago Building
Trades Council. and five other labor
leaders were voted by the Grand Jury
.o-night.
The true bills charge the defendants
with the murder of Acting Police
Lieutenant Terrence Lyons, killed in
Tuesday nights terrorism campaign.
Tie five others named are Isadore
Braverman, Jerry Horan, Dan Nc
Earthly, Robert McCloud and Tom
Hogan.
This is the first of series Of legal
kmashes that will rock the crooked
6abor unions from their foundations
declared Police Chief Fitzmorris.
Well land every labor crook behind
|,anitentiary bars before we are
through"
Haymarket Law Invoked.
The first indictments, it is reported,
|vere based on the old statute charg-
|ng "inciting to riot" the charge un-
|ler which Haymarlet anarchists were
onvicted and under which Sam Cardi-
|lelli. lcadtr of the notorious Cardi-
Ipelli gang of murdercrs, was found
I.uiity still more recently.
Chief FitzmUris, following the re-
urn OF the indictments. said there was
II conspiracy engineered by big Tim'
Murphy to make himself head Of the
|shicago Building Trades Council and
he dominant figure in Chicago's labor
World.
Murphy is also said to have been
hlotting the sinister removal from tho
abor world of Mike" Boyle. business
\ gent of the Electrical Workers Union.
|bne of the stanchest supporters of the
n .andis wage award and the one
stumbling block to Murphy's ascend
hncy in the Building Trades Union.
Landix Award Ignored.
The award by former Judge x. NJ.
,andis. acting as arbiter. fixed the
wages in the building trades Some OF
he unions refused to abide by 1t. and
here followed a series of bombing out
Eares that eliminated Tuesday night in
he killing of two policemen and the
bombing Of three plants involved in the
.andis award.
This afterwnoon. after two judges had
|heclared from the bench that state OF
Mar and terrorism existed In Chicago, 1t
WAS learned that fund of s6,0oo,o00
has been subscribed by the Chicago citi-
Tens committee to aid in the prosecution
|bf the army OF sluggers bombers and
sunmen imported here to. defeat the
.andis award and the open shop plan
backed by the committee.
In questioning one OF the sluggers
5ickcd up in the raids on labor head
quarters, which netted 200 prisoners. Po-
ice Chief Fitzmorris to-day ran across
he folloving scale OF prices for bomb
ng buildings and violence:
one stick dynamite bomb. $2o two
stick dynamite bomb, $50; four stick dy-
lamite bomb, 500; six stick dynamite
oomb. $40.
Measured by Publicity.
Getting on front page of Chicago
with headline like this. 1.-TWO
3omL Rock West Side" would bring
ESQ, while "mere mention of story on
inside page" would yield only $50.
These values were measured by news
'sper publicity because, as one OF the
higher ups said to one OF the rank
md file Of Chicago's contingent of bomb
brewers; ITS the publicity that we
Ect following bombing that makes It
asy TO make these guys (the employ
rs) come across"
Another OF the bomb tossers was told
y his superior ito put little spectac-
hIar stuff across. Just blowing out a
Window is old stuff for the editors. DO
Eomething new; these editor chaps are
boxing for something novel"
Ordinary sluggfng was put down for
E50 with 800 for n hospital Job and
Ef50 for the breaking OF arms or legs.
\ The sluggers and bombcrs were com.
bclled to give 10 per cent. TO the pay
bff'' man and $40 a job to the man who
banded out the assignments.
4 Judges Klrlsham Seaman and Joseph
David refused writs OF habeas corpus 10
shea Laffe~ty. Murphy and Nader.
4 "There Is an extraordinary situation
Existing In the community" Judge Scan
an said II consider VIC are virtually
In state of war. a group of men