The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-10-03

New York, Oct. 3-The Comnis- I sion of Inquiry of the Interchurch World Movement, last night made public a supplementary report on the steel strike of 1919, describing the alleged use of "under-cover men, or spies by the steel corporations and detailing its dealings and efforts to- ward mediation with the United States Steel Corporation.
 Hundreds of original documents are quilted in the report on under cover men in the steel strike" which declares that "wid deSpread systems of espionage are an integral part of the anti-union policy of great industrial corporations"
 Industrial espionage is confined to America" says the report What espionage there is in Europe is a government monopoly; no other civ iHzed country tolerateS large scale. privateIy-owned lahor spying"
 The spy hired by the steel com- panies, says the Commission, worked like a workman, talked like a work man, whispered depressing rumors, stirred up racial spite and argued failure of the strikers, and "even in his daily-mailed spy-reports he ad- vises not so much 'sluggers' as in f1uence' by municipal authorities to close up public meeting places The report also traces the alleged practice of industrial espionage against the Commission and the In terchurch Movement from November, 1919, to the summer of 1920. The report of an unnamed ''under-cover | man. who pursued the Commissions I investigators in Pittsburgh and in spected the Interchurch offices in New York, designated as Document A, is given in full. It was sent to the l Corporation, it is stated. and was 1 dated two days after the commissions | first interview with E. H. Gary, chair man of the corporation. The ''anony- | nnHSp rPnOrf called the invPSti members of the I. w. w. and | Reds.''
 Two other "spy reports against the Interchurch were detailed, one of which described as Document B, was alleged to have been mailed by Ralpy M. Easley, of the National Civic Federation, to the offices of the United States Steel Corporation on | March 29, 1920, with a letter re- questing that the clergymen reported in it be kicked out of their posi- tions''
 MT. Easley's letter gave as his reason for sending the report on men in the '1nterchurch World Move- ment, the Federal Council of the A." the fact that ''at this time they are proposing to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for this work" The commission said that none of the thing to do with the Interchurcn steel report"
 A third document circulated in the spring of 1920, the commission says had been described by business men who had showed it to them as the thing responsible for the failure oi the Interchurch financial drive ir Pittsburgh. It comprised 26 type written pages and included mach oi the spy materials in Documents 4 and B, 1t was stated.
 Six hundred alleged daily reports made by ''under-cover men, or spie: in the town of Monessen, Pa, during reports, it is stated. were furnished to the commission along with black lists, etc, by the steel company which hired the spies from labor de tectiVe agencies and elsewhere Th' spies, it is asserted, mixed with tn, strikers or held jobs inside the plan dressed as workers
 '@The Corporations Auxiliary Com pany," says the commissions sum mary of it's report, 'professed to hav' 500 such operatives at work in tn. steel strike and the concern'sN Pitts burgs manager told the investigato that many of these were inside tn unions, frequently as officers. Thei duties were to break the morale o | the strikers"
 The commission charged that tn ] ''under-cover men" circulated strike | breaking rumors and quoted a
 length extracts from their report
 purporting to show the general un
 reliability and worthlessness' of thei
 records.
 The investigation of the spy sys
 tenn. says the commission, was e2
 tended to other towns in the Pitts
 burgh region and then to the Chica kgo-Gary district; ramificatfons lea6 ing to Ohio. Washington and Nev