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Padded Accourfts to Fatten Own Purse FromUnion Contributions.From Thursday's Dally— \ KIJREKA SPRINGS, Jan. 24 While the employed rail union menthe country were contributing jilarly a part of their earnings forw/ upkeep of the strike along the Missouri and North' Arkansas railroad, supposedly to he devoted to the payment of rent and for the purchase of food, fuel and clothing, for the families of the idle strikers, evidence submitted to the grand Jury at Harrison, the hot-bed of the recent labor upheaval, indicates that thousands of dollars raised as benefit funds, went to the payment of fictitious accounts. The working railroad men were said to have contributed more than $2,500,000 in benefit funds for the Missouri and North Arkansas strikers—a fund that damaged the people in that territory to *5$ extent of more than $25,000,000. * V tenable Kept Accounts, r Venable, secretary of thelocal committee, Order of Railroad Conductors, and who was the master hand in directing the strike activities turned in the expense bills incurred in keeping the strike under way. Venable drew $10 per day salary Und his expense account included the fat perquisites. For instance, a taxicab operator testified that he hai rendered a few bills against th ^ union; only aggregating $1S0, am others of similar amounts. He at mitted these bills were rendered fo services never performed. Venabb sent the bills to national headquai ters and national headquarters issuei vouchers for same. When the check
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Harrison Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Fri, Feb 02, 1923
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