Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-12-11
Press and Attorney Make Lying
Charges In Attempt to Pin
Chicago Bombs on Labor
p, Sl,ff Correspondent, lnternation-
al Labor News Service.

I8-t YEAR. aNbiNthS ~ N-'N
gaTtment. and the police managed to
l.gture ten bombers fed-handed on
ta.Ir ninety ninth job.
states Attorney Robert +. Grove
ismediately got busy and asked for
q. snerIal grand jury to investigate all
- tbe bombings pulled off in 1928.
l,.s nlan is TO call in all of the VIC
t5e,s and ascertain who visited them
nd fhat was said TO them just before
they were bombed.
r,owe Has Genius for the Limelig ght.
Mr.. Grove has a genius for show
mapship and always makes big
Use about what he is going to do just
bfaie he starts TO do IL. He gets lots
of space in the newspapers, accompa-
pied by pictures of himself in many
heroic attitudes.
The daily newspapers credit Mr..
Grove with having made the state
nent that Investigations would show
tbat the victims OF the bOmbings had
been visited by labor union officers
lust prior to the bombing.
The police captured three men and
a woman in the act of bombing a
hardware store on the North Side.
Sweated, they confessed that Joseph
NJ. Sangerman,o owner of a BARRIERS
supply house, was their paymaster,
and that Jack Davis, a member OF
Journeyman BARRIERS Union No. 54S
was implicated with Sangerman.
Papers Print Lying Stories.
The daily newspapers announced in
sensational stories that Sangerman
was one of the powers in the Bar
bers' Union and that Davis was an
president of that organization.
Sangerman has never been a men,
Der of the BARRIERS Union, according
to W. S. Liedig, president of that or
ganization, and Jack Davis is not an
x-president of it, either. The daily
newspapers are aware Of these mis-
statements, but they have not taken
the trouble to max a correction, the
impression being left in the minds of
the public that responsible members of
organized labor are the directing
heads of the so-called bombing
trusts"
BARRIERS Head Refutes Stories.
Interviewed bv International Labor
News Service, President Leidig of Chi
cago BARRIERS Union No. 54S said:
"Sangerman is not now and never
has been a member of our union. He
is the secretary and representative
of the Master BARRIERS Association
(the boss BARRIERS organzation) on the
North Side. Jack Davis has never
been president although he has made
attempts to be elected, but he Is one
Of the radicals and has ALWAYS been
turned down by the membership.
Our union is in the hands of the
conservative element and we have
things so tied up that the Commun-
lists and other destructionists haven't
a look-in. The radicals did have con-
troll of the unio nup to a couple OF
years ago and they ran the member
ship down from more than 1000 to a |
little over GOO. We managed to get
control, and we now have $500 MEM
bers.
Union Officials Victims of BOmbers
AS to bombings," continued Mr..
Leidig, "officers of this organization
have had their homes bombed In an
endeavor to intimidate them, and un-
ion barber shops have been bombed. 1t
Is not so long ago when the homes oil
James Rose, our business represen-
tative, and Frank Range, the secre-
tary-treasurer, were bombed.
Those bombers are just a gang OF
hoodlums who have no connection with
the official transactions and work oil
this union,n concluded Mr.. Leidig.
Sangerman is charged with bomb
ing barber shops to fighten the own
ers into joining the Master BARRIERS
Association and live up to its schedule
Of prices and rules as to closing hours.
That does not implcate the journey
men, but the newspapers have been
trying to make it appear that 1t does.
Any one at all familiar with condi-
tons in Chicago since the Nolstead
act went into effect is aware that
many of the bombings could be traced
ed to the rival and warning gangs of
bootleggers and booze and beer run
nerS.
HullabalO Seen as Anti-Labor Move
The political pot has begun to boil
ior the spring primary campaign,
which promises to be not one. There
is strong suspicion that all of this
hullabaloO about bombings, taken to-
gether with the decision of Judge
Dennis +. Sullivan declaring the IN
junction limitation act uneonstitution-
al. Is just frame-up TO discredit or
ganized labor before the campaign for
mally opens.
1t Is 10 to l shot that States At
torney Grove will discover a lot of
his political friends mixed up in the
oomblngS before he gets far into the
mess in which event he will get cold
ieet just as he always does under
such circumstances.
coroner Oscar Wolff has publicly
charged States Attorney Grove with
beng in league with some of the most
notorious and desperate characters m
lhcago's underworld, and the States
attorney has yet to enter a categori-
cal denial
Why Did Grove Delay Action?
Tn question has been raised as to
why States Attorney Grove had to-
~.alt until there were 80 bombings for
me year before he began to call the
victims before the grand jury.
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