The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-10-22

sode in the inquiry, not because Tny
Of its allegations were true, but be-
cause it was received as true by power
full men who were not unaccustomed
to a system of spy reporting;
because great laymen in several
States and in variou industries re-
ceived and weighed spy reports much
as they took a newspaper" This re-
port, called Document A." was cir
culated by steel manufacturers, by
employers association, by the manag-
ing director of the National Industrial
Conference Board. first in typed form
and finally in printed shape. The
secretary of the Ohio Manufacturers
Association. Malcolm Jennings, who
circulated it, retracted and his apol-
ogy is given with the results of other
Investigations Of it by interchurch
officials.
The study than describes Document
b, another spy report against the in
terchurch. This was the report mailed
by Ralph M. Easley, of the National
Civic Federation, to~~the office of the
United States Steel Corporation on
March 20, 1920, with clegymen re-
ported in it be kicked out Of their
positions
Ralph Easley Admits He Lied.
Mr.. Easley's letter gave as his rea-
son for sending the report on gentle
men in "the Interchurch World Move
ment, the Federal Council Of the
Churches of Christ and the Y. M. c.
A." the fact that lat this time they
are proposing to raise hundreds of
millions Of dollars for this work" Mr..
Easley in a long conference with in
terchurch officials, denied having sent
the letter, through he later admitted
it. None Of the men spied on by his
agent had anything to do with the
interchurch steel report.
The study also describes Document
c. another secret report circulated in
the spring Of 1920 and described by
business men who showed it to the
commission as "the thing responsible
for the failure of the interchurch fin
ancial drive in Pittsburgh" Its 26
typewriter pages included much of
the spy material in Documents A and
3.
The study shows how this material
was presented to government officials
by steel manufacturers. It was in
eluded in the 7S-page brief Of the
National Association of Sheet and Tin
Plate Manufacturers filed with the
Senate committee on labor and edu-
cation against the Senate motion to
make the steel report a public docu-
ment. The commissions reply rid
died this document by showing it's spy
sources.
The study finally asks: "Can we
live without spies?" The commission
recommends Federal investigation Of
labor detective agencies looking to
their regulation or abolition.
Manufacturing Public Opinion.
A study of the mind Of immigrants
communities in the Pittsburgh dis
trict'' analyses the forces which make
Russians, Poles, Croats, Serbs, Hun
garians, Italians and Lithuan4ans who
comprise the bulk Of the steel workers.
Community leadership is shown to be
that Of "clansmen" or enterprising i'm
migrants accustomed to profit from
the helplessness OF newer fellow I'M
migrants. The leaders are frequently
| officers of clubs or benefit societies,
editors, lawyers and other professional
men,. The leadership fellows imita-
lively the dominant American" lead
ership round about the immigrants
t communities.
Interview With Judge Gary.
Generally the nationalist leaders did
not support the strike but did not