Volume 18 , Issue 14

1922 - 150 Labor Men Held In Chicago

In the Great Bend Tribune, Great bend, Kansas, dated 13 May 1922, Saturday, page 1, we learn of other gangsters kill two in barber shop. Men armed with Shotguns Killed proprietor and and man being shaved in Italian section of Chicago. The headlines read: "150 Labor Men Held In Chicago."

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Chicago, May 13 (1922) -- While the police were rushing legal activities against labor leaders, charged with placing Chicago in a "state of warfare," through their crime activities, the crack of pistols and the boom of shotguns broke out again in various sections of the city and at noon four were dead and three injured as a result of two assassinations and two street frights between policemen and bandits.

Chicago, May 13 (1922) -- The place net about figures in the recent series of bombings, which culminated Wednesday in the killing of two policemen was tightened perceptibly, it was authoritatively said, with obtaining partial confessions from three. Approximately 150 labor men were under arrest. The identification of the actual slayers was imminent, the police said.

Chicago, May 13 (1922) -- A bomb factory where all the explosives used by the labor gangster terrorists in recent outrages were believed to have been manufactured, was raided the night before.

Magazine pistols, ammunition, jimmies, fuses and detonating caps enough to fill a large suitcase, were seized along with James Maher, safe-blower, who had served several sentences in state and federal prisons.

The raid came after three confessions, said to disclose in detail the operations of the bombing ring, were in the hands of the place. These confessions were said to involve the three "king plus" of gangster rule - "Big Tim" Murphy, "Frenchy" Mader and "Con" Shea - three of the eight under indictment for murder. The confessions were of such a startling nature that convictions of the men for murder was positively assured, according to one authority closely connected with the drive against gangster rule.

It was believed the confessions came from Isidore Braverman, a dominant figure in the Fixture Hangers' union; Robert McCloud, posing as a clerk in the headquarters of the Building Trades Council, but whose real job the place assert, was the slugging of workmen, and "Smash" Hanson, also a slugger.

The tip that led to discovery of the bomb factory was supplied by an out of town business man, whose identity was withheld.
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