Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-13
4OO LABOR LEADERS
JAILED IN CHICAGO

CHICAGO, May 1.-THE detective
bureau and city jails were crowded
today with 400 labor leaders and
others held in connection with the
ly yesterday and the bombing of
two buildings which police attributed
to labor disorders. Two men have
been pointed out as resembling men
in the automobile from which shots
which killed Terance Lyons, acting
lieutenant, were fired. Rewards to-
falling $4,000 have been offered for
the arrest Of the slayers.
AL law enforcement organizations
in the city are united in what po-
lice term "a fight to the finish with
organized labor" More than 100 la
Dor leaders, including big Tim"
Murphy, Cornelius Shea and Fred
Nader, president of the building
trades council, are among those I'M
der arrest. Raids on labor head
quarters brought in labor bosses by
the score yesterday.
Two partly identified as the slay-
ers are, police say, Isadore Braver-
man, twenty-eight. and Max Glass,
thirty-three.
Police Ready for War
Charles g. Fitzmorris, chief of
police, said he believes the men were
only hirelings of the 'higher-up'
forces in organized labor circles, put
ting into action a conspiracy to
overthrow the citizens committee
and the Lands wage award, a de-
cision handed down by K. M. Lam
dis, former federal judge, then act
| ing as arbiter, which was intended
to- settle labor disputes between
members of the building trades coun-
Gil, and the labor unions. The citi-
zens' committee was formed to aid
in enforcing this decision.
''The slaughter Of two policemen
is the inevitable result of the tactics
employed by Fred Nader, Tim Muir
ply. Cornelius Shea and other hood
lums and ex-convicts who have gone
about posing as labor leaders," Chief
F'itZmorris said. Nov that they
want war, the police department will
give it to them. 1 have instructed
officers to round up all of these
hoodlums and place them under lock
AMI key
Only Bought Cops a Drink
81 think this is all a mistake, "
Fred Nader, president of the build,
Ing trades council, said. I've been
trying to play clean. We regret the
death of the policeman as much as
the officers, and when the results
of the investigation are sifted I be.
lieve they will find other than labor
men were to- blame for the crime u
tits just another bum rap like
the rest they have handed me-" Tim
Murphy said.
81 m no copper killer. I never
slugged a cop in my life. The only
thing. ever had to do with them
was to buy one drink.
'Fitzmorris has insulted me.
don't know anything about this at
all. He's just taking his dislike for
me out on my friends, and I sup.
pose it's the sweatboX for us for a
while"
Murphy is being held incommuni.
cado at an outlying station.
Woman Held
Efforts to obtain the release OF
Shea, Murphy and Nader on writs
of habeas corpus were forestalled
when Judge Klckham Scanlon and
Judge Joseph Davis postponed de-
cision until today.
The slayers' automobile was found
riddled with bullets and pools led
police to believe that one gunman
had been wounded.
Women were not immune from
the police dragnet and Miss Evaline
Flood, said to be secretary to Muir
ply. is being held for questioning
with several other women connected
with labor organizations.
Police today will continue ques'
tioning the men under arrest and
all documents seized during yester.
days raids will be inspected care.
fully in an effort to find clue
which will lead to definite informa-
ton concerning the possible connec'
ton Of organized labor with the
bombing of buildings being erected
under the Lands wage award and
the killing of the policemen.