New-York tribune., 1922-05-11
Labor Chiefs Seized i'm
Raid OH Union Offices:
s25, ,OOOReward Up for
S'aycrs Of , Policemen
Arsenal Discovered
I'm Workers Safe
Police Declare Fight to
Finish; City Stirred 10
Pitch Of Haymarket Davs
Sprcio1 Dispatch to The ryibnn.

Snfcio' Dispatch to The Tribune
CHICAGO, May 10 Aroused as II
has not been since the Haymarket riot.
Chicago to-day accepted the challenge
OF labor gunner and bombcrs rospon-
siblo for Tuesday nights campaign Of
terror in which two policemen were
killed. BY nightfall an unprecedented
combination OF forces had been massed
to track down the men who killed
Lieutenant Terence Lyons and Patrol
man Thomas Clarke. A third policeman
was wounded bv the slayers, who
escaped.
Rewards total1ing more than $4,000
already have been offered for the cap
turc of the murderers. with the pros
pect that the amount Will reach s1OO,-
900 by Tomorrow
More ttsn 200 suspects we're taken
into custody during raids on union
headquarters, which continued through
cut the day. Safes in the union head
quarters we're broken open and all rec
ords and papers seized
Union Leaders Seized
Big Tim Murphy of the Gas Work
ers' Union; "Con" Shea, formerly with
the Teamsters' Union. and Fred Nader.
president Of the Chicago Building
Trades Council, were among the dozens
u labor leaders taken into custody.
States Attorney Grove and Chief
fitzmorris threw their full forces in
the lolnt drive to sweep the city clear
OF CRIME. Seven assistant States Attor-
ncys were assigned to assist Chief Fitz-
morris in his investigation
While the pick of the Police Depart
ment were swooping down on labor
headquarters, the gunmens hangouts in
all parts OF the city, Chief Fitzmorris,
Chief Of Detectives Hughes. States At
foncy Grove and Edwin W Sims,
president Of the Chicago Crime Com
mission, held long conference, durjno
which details of the drive were mapped
out.
Chief Pledges War to Finish
Chief Of Police Fitzmorris said:
The slaughter of the two ploice
officers while they were on duty is an
inevitable result Of tactics en1plovad by
Murphy Nader and Shea and the Other
hood!ums and eX-convicts who have
been going about posing as leaders of
labor
Now that they want war with the
police, they shall 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
Hnymarkct riot
"They no more represent organized
labor than anarchists did Labor does
rn.
ment will not have them around
Murphy, Shea and Nader and more
than thirty others were arrested in a
spectacular raid on the Offices Of the
Chicago Building Trades Council. at 1874
West Randolph Street.
About sixty more prsons were
rounded up in Big Tim" Murphv's
headquarters and the Chicago Musi-
cans' Club, at l84 West Washington
Street.
Bomb Material Found
Mader's safe yielded three revolvers.
more than a hundred rounds OF ammu-
nition and quantity OF fuse and caps.
such as are used in touching OF bombs.
revolver and seven feet OF fuse were
taken from Murphy's safe.
olio"lng these two raids detectives
lnvsdcd the headquarters of the
Glaaiers and Marble :5etters' Union, in
The Hearst Building. and two more
Wagonioads Of prisoners were taken.
Besides Murphy. Shea and Nader,
characterized by Chlet Fitzmorris IA
pSeudo labor leaders controlling bands
OF "hoodiums' and "es -convicts." The
principal union agents taken into GUS
rody were James !, Conroy, secretary
of the Chicago Building Trades Coun-
y l.