THREATS OF DEATH
U.S. Labour Leaders Stricken with Terror ONE MURDER ALREADY MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 20. Following tlie murder of Patrick Corcoran, a well-known merubcr of the American Federation of Labour in tlie middle-west, who was found shot dead in tlie face in suoav in a street near his home, Labour leaders are stricken with terror. A mystcrious telephone call was roceived by the wife of a Laundry Union leader shortly before the finding of Corcoran's hody. The caller said: "Two more will go. There is going to be a cleaning up of some of these dictators." The polico have been informed that four otliers have been tlireatened with death. They are satisfied that robbery was not the motive for Corcoran's murder, with which they attribute deeper and more sinister reasons.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 50, 22 November 1937, Page 7
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