A History of Organized Felony and Folly - The Clarence Darrow ...

A History of Organized Felony and Folly
have cost those directly interested $2,000,000, to have cost the
business interests of Cliicago $25,000,000, v/hile Shea's two
trials cost Cook county $100,000.
It is probable that many of the unionists in this country
v:ouI4 have voted to hang Shea after the exposure, but it is
not likely that 1% was bestirred to make inquiry v/hether their
ov»'n officers were engaged in similar practices.
Either it must be assumed that the remedy for union labor
abuses lies in the rank and file giving more individual atten-
tion to union affairs, or it must be assumed that the great
body of unionized American workers has embarked on a
campaign of crime and folly that will certainly result in the
destruction of its organization. The latter assumption it is
net easy to entertain.
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