Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-08-21
Pegler Recalls
8 Killings in
ChicagoUnion
Painted in Blood Story
Reprinted as Proof
By WESTBROOK PEGLER

BY WESTBROOK PEGLER =
A LITTLE while ago, as you
"A may remember, I was mar
yelling at the stupidity of the
executive council.of the AFL in
selecting as the site of important
deliberations the city of Chi
cago, which is the Helrs Half
Acre of the union racket, the
center of the foulest and most
arrogant corruption in their en-
tire domain.
BY way of proving up, and
lest it be said again that was
dealing in generalities and in
half-truths, / gave some bio
graphical data from the ALL
Chicago rogues' gallery. but
clean forgot to mention the Chi
cago painters.
1t was a unioneer of the Chi
cago painters. incidentally, who
went about the horse and dog
tracks and the gambling joints
of Miami a few winters ago,
cashing checks drawn on the
sick benefit fund of his treasury.
This little survey of the affairs
of the painters, which L am
about 10 present, is not my own
writing. but a lift from the edi-
torial columns of the Chicago
Daily News. which is Frank
Knox's paper.
Under the title of Painted
u in Blood" the Daily News
opinionates and reports as fol-
lows
throughout the country,
various union labor groups are
organizing, circulating petitions
and writing letters To the editors
Of various newspapers, including
the Daily News. The tenor Of =
their efforts Is summarized In
the ultimatum:
You must throw West
brook Pegler and his four
llDflS int thOof
out of your newspaper
'Pegler, IL Is alleged, is unfair
10 organized labor because he
has exposed crooks, ex-convicts
and racketeers who are mt the
head of some union groups.
EARLY yesterday morning"
meaning on July IL and before
Brother Green and his council
met in Chicago, "Mrs. Charles
YoungblOod, wife of business
agent of Chicago local OF the
painters union, was shot and
killed in her home. Her hus-
band, an ex-convict, was seri-
ously wounded. Arthur Wallace,
secretary treasurer OF the union,
was found critically wounded on
the lawn of hospital.
MANY Chicagoans, reading
this story I'm their newspapers.
must have been struck with the
thought: This IL where 1 came
in They were right.
"On the night of March 16,
1889. this same Charles Young
blood and the same Mrs. Young
blood were shot in front OF their
home. But both recovered.
IS 4 Nd on the night of Jan. 3,
"A 1886, Mrs. Elsie Henne-
man was shot and killed by
aSsassins who shot at her hus-
band, George, one of the bosses
i'm this same painters union.
Farther back. on Feb. -,
1881. Frank Carr, the financial
secretary of the painters union.
was shot 10 death. Just eight
years ago. on July 10, 1884.
Michael (Bubs) Quiplan was
shot 10 death i'm n row over
affairs of the painters union.
A month later, Roy Thomp
son, business agent for the
union. was shot 10 death. On
July %, 1897, Robert A. Shields,
financial secretary OF the union.
was shot TO death.
On Aug. 10, 1888, James Dun
can, known as 'czar' of the
union, was shot to death. On
Aug. Il. 1910, William Schaaf,
former business agent for the
union, was shot to death.
$50 union labor organizations
10 browbeat Pegler and newspa-
pers who print his column be-
cause, as the agitators alIege,
Pegler paints an unfair picture
of some labor unions.
"SOme people. II would appear.
prefer to have their painting
done by union painters. True.
the union painters have done a
far better job than Pegler has
done. He did his delineation
with ink. Theirs II done with
blood"
WHAT means, Let me sec, one.
u two, three, a total of eight
persons, including two women.
murdered in the operation of the
democratic process in this bar
gaining agency in IL years and
gather from the Chicago Suns
subsequent remark that Wallace
had been fatally wounded"
that he, too, died
In addition, there was the
earlier wounding of both Young
bloods and the plunking of the
husband in the present case.
Mr.. Youngblood studied COL
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