FOUND MURDERED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 276, 20 November 1937, Page 9

FOUND MURDERED

AMERICAN LABOUR LEADER MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. 18. Patrick Corcoran, the well-known American Federation of Labour member for the Middle West, was found shot dead with his face in the snow in a street near his home. The gossip column of a local newspaper said: “A prominent labour leader may be assassinated fortnightly.” The writer to-day declared that he had immediately turned the information over to the police. Corcoran’s son disclosed that h’l father had been beaten ana fired on last week, but did not recognise his assailant. OTHERS THREATENED LABOUR LEADERS STRICKEN WITH TERROR Received Nov. 19. 10.5 p.m. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 18. Labour leaders are stricKcn will terror owing to a mysterious telephone call received by the wife of the laundry union leader shortly before the finding of Corcoian’s body. The caller said, “Two more will go. There is going to bo a cleaning up of some of these dictators.” The police have been inioimed that four others have been threatened with death. They are satisfied that robbery was not the motive of Corcoran's murder, with which they attribute deeper and more sinister seasons.