LABOUR LEADER SHOT
“CZAR OF TRADE UNIONS.”
[BY CABLE —PBISS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.]
(Recd. September 21, 1 p.m.) ST. LOUIS, September 20.
Two masked men assassinated Arthur Schading, the “Czar” of St. Louis trade unions, and the principal figure in union disputes. The men fired 12 bullets into his body and head, and then fled.
Schading is the second business agent to be killed under similar circumstances. The previous assassination, which was never solved, occurred in 1922.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 September 1938, Page 7
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