Told Out of Court; Personal Experiences of Members of the Chicago Bench And Bar
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Leinen. It was a period of business depression at the Union Stock Yards, causing want and discomfort in the families of tens of thousands of employes. A curious social paradox — want in the midst of plenty, in the great center of the food supply of the world. TOLD OUT OF COURT 173 Under these hard industrial conditions many of the toilers resorted to borrowing money in order to support their families. Then came trouble. Men lost courage and hope on account of the burden hung about their necks b...y the usance of greedy men. Prominent among the loan sharks was one whom I shall call A. Wolf. He had a clothing house near the yards and made shirte as well as loans to order, but he was essentially a "banker," and his financial ambitions, espe- cially in the matter of interest, were appallingly steep. It happened that, as I was attorney for labor unions in the stock yards, some of the officers and business agents came to me requesting that I would interfere to check the blood-sucking perpetrated by Wolf and his kind, and I took up the cases of forty or fifty of the victims.
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