Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-10-04

Grafton to the Offices of the United
states Stee! corporation on March 20.
1870, with a letter requesting that h
ciergymen reported in it be Kicked
ont of their positions"
To Raise Big Sum.
Mr. Easleys letter gave az his
reason for sending the report on men
in the "Interchurch World movement,
the Federal Council Of the Churches
of Christ and the 7. NJ. c.. A." the
fact that "at this time they are pro-
posing to raise hundreds Of millions
Of dollars for this work" The COM
spied on by his agent had anything
to do with the ~Interchurch steel re-
port"
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 Of
Pittsburgh. It comprised 26 type
written pages and included much Of
the Spy material in Documents A and
B. It vas stated.
Six hundred alleged daily reports
made by "under-cover men" or spies
In The, town OF Mones1en. Pa, during
the stee! strike. are a%nalyzed. These
reports. it is stated. were furnished to
the commission. along with blacklists.
etc, by the steel company which
hired the spies from labor detective
agencies and elsewhere. The spies, it
is asserted, mixed with the strikers or
held jobs inside the plant dressed as
workers.
The Corporations Auxiliary COM
pany." says the COMMISSIONS sum-
mary of Its report, ~"professed to have
500 such operatives at work in the
steel strike and the copcern's Pitts
that many of these were inside the
unions. frequently as officers. Their
duties were to break the morale OF
h strikers"
The commission charged that the
"under-cover men" circulated strike
breaking rumors and quoted at length
extracts from their reports purport-
ing to show the general u~nreliability
and worthlessness Of their records.
The investigation of the spy system,
says the commission, was extended
TO other towns in the Pittsburgh re-
gicn and then to the Chicago-Gary
district; r~amifcations leading t. Ohio,
Washington, New York were followed
and data collected including original
documents from the superintendent
ing companies. interviews with the
~ Va v" y ~ las
and court documents"
Was "Thcir Man"
Documents are quoted to show
that the "under-cover men" were in
side the unions and that the manager
Of one agency had hoasted that I'VE
expect eventually to control the
unions which have fallen into radical
hands in the last few years" This
same. manager is quoted as declaring
"a member of the steel strike
The commission presented the de-
tailed affidavit of an operative who
worked for several years inside Chi
unions, stirring up strikes and
breaking the strikes. Many
manufacturing plants are named and
an attempt to swing a union election
is detailed. A Chicago p agency, it
declared. was indicted for con-
s%piracies and intent ito create riots,
i~nsurrection and murder" In Wheel
ing. in the past month, 1t was stated,
the unions exposed officials there who
were also spies.
The commission closes its report
with details Of its futile efforts to
present to Chairman e. H. Gary Of
the United States Steel corporation
plan looking for mediation of the
strike. Letters to and from Mr.. Gary
are cited. A chapter. also details the
history at the commissions efforts to
obtain government action on its steel
report Recommendations and .indf-
Gates that widespread popular sup
port for the Recommendations has
largely thwarted SO far az Visible
reforms In the industry are con
cerned.4 fSs