The New York herald., 1922-05-11
Moves to Avenge Killing Of
Police and Bombing Of
Plants.
OPEN SHOP AWARD ISSUE
$4,000 Reward for the Cap
ture and Conviction of Four
Labor Gunmen.

Special Dispatch to THE New YonK HERALD
! CHICAGO, May 10.-"Big Tim" Muir.
ply, president of the Building Trades
Council; "Con" Shea of the teamsters
union, virtually eve. y official and busi-
ness agent of the council and other
Chicago labor men, totaling fully 200,
were arrested to-day on orders OF
Chief OF Police Fftzmorris and held
for questioning in connection with last
nights reign of terror, which cul-
minated in the killing of two police
men, the wounding of a third and the
bombing of three plants working open
shop under the Lands wage award.
Squads of detectives visited each
union headquarters affiliated with the
council and seized all present in the
belief that they might throw some
light on the identity of the gunmen
who slew the officers and who are sup
posed to have been labor thugs.
Chief Fftzmorrfs Has Evidence.
When asked whether Murphy. Nader,
Shea and the other labor men were
picked UP merely for questioning ana
would be released later, Chief FI.z-
morris said: -.
"You don't think I woufd arrest all
of these men IL l didn't have some evl-
dence to back up what I'm doing. do
you? Four weeks ago, when lapor
bombing and terrorism showed no signs
of abating, l warned Murphy. Mader'
Shea and the others that II had TO stop.
had gathered a lot of evidence even
then. / have since obtained great
deal more and am going to use II.
A reward of $4,000 was offered to-
day by the Chicago Citizens Commit
tee to Enforce the Lands WAGE Award
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of the four gunmen who
murdered the two policemen Addi-
tional offers by the city authorities and
West Park Commission bring the re-
wards to $4,000.
Chicago must avenge the death OF
the two policemen killed in the latest
bombing outrage" said Edwir W. Sims.
president OF the Chicago Crime Conn
mission. THE bombings have been
traced to one source. Certain unions
in this city have thrown down the
gauntlet to Chicago. They have openly
Dragged that they would no. abide by
the decision handed down by Judge
Landis when he made his wage award
governing union labor
Labor Must Glenn House."
''The other night. the Building Trade,
Council voted strike threat TO take
effect May %. Labor must clean house.
The time is here to treat these ex-con-
vict labor leaders roughly. Killing
policemen and dynamiting buildings will
be stopped from now on
Chicago is In the grip OF an organ
lied crime camorra," said States At
torney Grove Whenever anybody
crosses the path of these so-called labor
leaders the word goes out TO bump
somebody Off. Nearly every labor bust
ness agent in Chicago seems to trade IN
bullets. sluggings and bombings."
Wrlts OF habeas corpus were applied
for by the wholesale by a small army
of criminal lawyers this evening. These
writs were made returnable Tomorrow.
The five bombings last night which
preceded the shooting Of the policemen
ware at GLACIERS plants operating under
the supervision of the Chicago Citizens
Committee, which has sanctioned the
Lands wage award. Every official and
business agent OF the glaciers union,
twelve in number, is under arrest and
held incommunlcado by the police.
Following the bombings. the terrorists
three men riding in n dllapidated Ford
encountered first Policeman Thomas
Clark one of the men shot him dead
when he attempted to question them.
Soon aftervard the west park police
"flivver" squad hailed the same trio. A
running revolver battle followed in
which Lieut.. Terrnce Lyons was
killed by bullets which hit him in the
forehead and breast and one Of his men,
Albert Moeller. was wounded.