The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1921-10-03
Church Commission in Report
Raps Great Corporations.
USE OF "JHDER5OVER hEEsi,
Espionage Methods Declared to be
integral Part OF Anti-Union Policy.
Echo of Big 1919 Strike.

! New York, oct. 3.--Tnr commission
! If inquiry ri the interchurci World
! nuremenl, made public Il supplemen-
: cary report on the steel strike of 1919,
! describing the alleged Use Of under
! cover men" or spies 10y lie Steel cor
i porations and detailing It's dealings
! and efforts toward mediation with the
| United States Steel corporation.
Hundreds OF original documents are
! quoted i'll the report on ''unGercoyer
ilUn in thc steel strike, which de-
IarvS that widespread systems nI
,sDt"nage are an integral part of Tie
|;ni-uni"n policy OF great industrial
! corporations.
"lnduStrial espionage is confined to
America" says the report. What es-
l'ionage there is in Europe is a gov
crnmen1 monopoly: no ether civilized
country tolerate$ large scale, privately
"Nned labor spying.
The spy hired by the steel companies,
says the commission, worked like
workman, talked like workman, Whis-
ler"d depressing rumors, stirred up
=: ial spite and argued failure to the
strikers, and ''even in his daiIy-naiIed
$tH-rCp0rlS he advises moi 81 much
tlu-gGr~ as influence hy municipal
mut'I0rftieS 10 close up public meeting
.lHce>"
The report also traces the alleged
ractiCe Of industrial espionage ;l-.,insl
ih3 commission and the Interchurch
: L., N,,-,r,,t., q.
umlcr Of t92.: tn rcDort II an uh-
namcd uncover man who pur>u2t!
jtic ,"lufni>Sim'> investigators III I'ittS-
Llr@h and INSPECTED the Intcryi4urch
cili,lS in New York. DESIGNATED as
'UcGment \, is civ Il in full 1t was
sent to the offices of the Unaad States
Ete1l corporation, il is stated. and was
Gated two days after the commissions
first interview with +. H. Gary, chair
i&an of the corporation. The "anony-
uou~" report called the Investigations
''i,;t'ibers of the |. w w and Reds
TO other spy reports" against the
int: ichurch were detailed, one of
h.th described as Document L, was
#ll &2d TO have been mailed by RalJ5ii
AZ i.asley, Of the National Civic Fed
csA.ioD, to the offices of the United
St"r2S Steel corporation on March %,
10 ), with Il letter requesting that the
cler&lmen reported in it to be kicked
on: # their Positions
E,'ley's letter gave : his reason for
s"n"ing the report on men in the I'm
trr>hurch World Movement, the Fede-
Ia! Council of the Churches of Christ
and The Y. NJ. c. A. the fact that lat
this time they are proposing to raise
hni.tifeds of millions of dollars for
tbs work. The commission said that
'llts.lc of tie men spied on by his agent
hA' anything to do with the Inter-
Church steel report
y third document circulated in the
spring Gf 1920, the commission saws.
had been described by business men
VIII" had showed it to them as the
thing responsible" for the failure of
the Interchurch financial drive in Pitts
burgh
Six hundred alleged daily reports
made by 'undercover men" or spies in
the town of IoneSSen, Pa, during the
steel strike, are analyzed. These re-
ports, it is stated, were furnished to
the commission along with blacklists,
@tc.. liz the steel company. which hired