Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-10-05
FAIR
ENOUGH
BY Westbrook
Peqler

| 4 PUBLICITY release oil me
"A United States Maritime
Commission a6nounces IN at
among other "illuStriouS names
in labor history assigned to
new Liberty ships of the Mer-
chant Marine is that of Arthur
NJ. Hudden, late president of the
International Union of Operat-
ing Engineers.
Huddell died in Sibley Hos
pital, Washington, ID, C.. on
June /. 1881. The coroner'S
report said a cerebral hemor-
rhagc and pneumonia were the
causes of his death, which oc-
Cured 10 days after he had been
struck over the heart by bull
let fired by an unidentified
man while lunching at res
taurant near the headquarters
of the racket.
That the hemorrhage and
pneumonia were caused by the
shock of the shooting is a spec
ulative possibility, but there is
no question that Frank Lang
don, The editor OF the unions
official publication, was shot in
the head and lost an eye.
John POSSEHL, a vice presi-
- dent, who was lunching with
Huddell and Langdon, was not
hit and became president on
Huddelrs death and 'held the
Job until his death from natural
causes in September, 1910.
Then the mob rallied again
and elected William +. Maioney
of Chicago, whose seifless al
truiSm in the maintenance Of
labor'S gains under the New
Deal Underworld = Communist
ANS has yielded him a stable
of race horses, a villa IN the
Wintering place of the criminal
scum in Miami Beach and
large farm near Chicago.
Possehl was Maloney's man
in the presidency in rivalry
with Joe Fay. the New Jersey
thug and old-time bootlegger.
TTIE police work in the Hud-
Il dell case hardly could have
been worse.
In the end nobody was pun
iShed or even tried and the
union became even more agrees
svely a racket of racketeers
which, during the long depres-
sion thrived on public make
work projects and. since the war
began. has shaken down work.
erS and contractors and always.
in the end. the people of the
United States, who eventually
pay the costs, in all sections of
the country.
ONE statement in the files,
~ taken in connection with an
other plot not long after Hud-
dell's death. quotes a working
stiff as saying that they had
starved him long enough and
caused one Of his children TO die
from undcrnouriShment" This
man was arrested and indicted
but died in jail before he could
be brought to trial.
The christening Of the s. s.
Arthur NJ. Huddell, naturally,
will be made an important oc-
CaSion by his successors. par
ucularly by Brother Maloney.
who is a prominent member of
Ed Kelly's Chicago chapter of
the party Of humanity, and
Brother Fay, who is very influ-
ential not only in the Frank
Hague chapter in New Jersey
but in Washington, as well.
II might he more fitting TO
name ship after Dennis
Bruce Zeigler, Of Chicago. who.
was murdered near his home on
Feb. Ii, 1888, after a long fight
against Brother Maloney for
clean unionism and after he had
given information TO the United
States treasury concerning the
/ income Of certain of the Chi
cago raCketcCrC.
THE murder occurred about
Il "a hours after Zeigler re-
ported TO an agent of the
government that two union
officials including one of those
against whom he had given
information to the treasury
had chased him through the
streets and that one of them
had yelled:
II will kill you yet"