Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1916 — WAR FACTORY READ TO FACE CHARGES [ARTICLE]

WAR FACTORY READ TO FACE CHARGES

Further Developments in East Chicago Labor Troubles. OLAF OLESON IS INDICTED Lake County Grand Jury Charges President of Edwards Valve Company Unlawfully Imported Men to Act as Deputy Sheriffs. Hammond. —It developed in the Lake county superior court that indictments were returned by the grand Jury just adjourned, against Olaf Oleson, president of the Edwards Valve company, of East Chicago, and the corporation itself, charging them with bringing into Indiana persons who acted as deputy sheriffs and police officers contrary to the statutes. Imprisonment In the penitentiary and fines may be given to the defendants if found guilty. The Edwards Valve company figured in the fatal labor riots at East Chicago recently.