The Day Book from Chicago, Illinois • Page 8

STRIKEBREAKER EXPLAINS 'PRESENCE OF GUN ON SON A professional strikebreaker and employer of gunmen stood before Judge Scully yesterday and tried to explain why son was caught carrying a black, shiny little automatic revolver. The young man's name is George Seagrove and his father is George A Seagrove of the Seagrove-Christian- sen private detective agency, First National Bank Building. At 2:30 a. m. Monday, Policeman Peter, Blake found young Seagrove leaning against the wall of a saloon at Irving Park boulevard and Robey street.

In his coat pocket was one of those strictly modern magazine guns of a type commonly carried by private detectives who are making good money and can afford a good make of shooting iron. To Judge Scully the lad explained that he never was in the habit of lugging a pistol. His story was so earnest and his manner so appealing that everybody thought it was just a mistake the young man had fallen into. Then came his testimony that he keeps books for his father and part of his daily work is to put down the number of dollars that the gunmen employed by his father get for the week's work. The father spoke to Judge Scully: "This is the first time he ever a revolver, your honor.

I never, encouraged' him to do this. I didn't anything about it. "He loaned $2 to a friend and the friend gave him this gun as security for the loan; that's all there is to it." -The case was. continued till April 3. Edward McMorrow of the executive board of the Amalgamated Street and Electric Railway Emplyes, asked by a Day Book reporter about the Seagrove-Christiansen agency.

"They have as fine a lot of gunmen 'as any strikebreaking agency in the country," said McMorrow. "Our organization knows because our men have felt the sting of bullets shot by Seagrove-Christianspn men. The' agency was in charge of the strikebreakers in Philadelphia during the reign of violence started there when several strikers went down before the aim of Seagrove men in the barns. The Milwaukee strike of two years ago was handled by them." SHANE HAS NEW PLAN TO LURE STRIKEBREAKERS Conrad B. Shane, the tailor, 501 S.

Jefferson street, who locked' out his union raincoat workers, has struck upon a new idea by which to lure strikebreakers. He has his traveling salesmen advertise for strikebreakers in whatever town they happen, to be. A letter received by the Raincoat Workers yesterday from Akron, tells of the -game. In that city a person named Lane, traveling for Shane, advertised in the daily papers for men to take the places of the locked out men, and as an inducement he offered a year's contract. Shane yesterday refused to talk to the grievance committee of the Chicago Federation of Labor.

International Vice President Feit arrived in the city today to take charge of the lockout. Dave Vercel, a union picket, was arrested near the Shane plant yesterday. HOYNE GETTING READY FOR TAXDODGING BATTLE State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne is getting everything in readiness for his coming fight against thataxd'odg-ers who have for years been cheating the citizens of Cook County. Yesterday eight new assistant state's attorneys were named to carry onthe fight The men chosen are D. G.

Ramsey, James R. Quinn, Richard Prendergast, James Gywn, John Higgins, Hart Baker, Morris Schaeffer and Herbert C. L'usL.