Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1911 — LABOR SLUGGERS KNOWN [ARTICLE]

LABOR SLUGGERS KNOWN

List of Them Is Furnished to Chicago Police. Chicago, May 12. Names of men hired by organized labor as “professional sluggers” and who the police say have been responsible for many murders and assaults in labor disputes in Chicago were given to the police few the first time. Twenty-four “wreckers” are employed by the plumbers and steamfltters, who are fighting each other. Detectives who have been detailed to capture the labor sluggers w ere given the list of names by Chief McWeeney and instructed to arrest the men at once. “These names were furnished the police department by a labor leader who has become tired of the recent labor outrages,” said a prominent police official.