The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-03-26

on at this meeting.
tThere was one initiation. No in
stal1ation or election of officers.
Brother Wilson reported on a scab
that is in Houston, Texas, who was
member here. A trial committee was
appointed to look up the case.
'"The usual bills were allowed for
the secretary. could not get the
am cunt of them, they were read off
so fast.
Not Without Humor.
"There was communication from
requesting the union, men not. to use
some air hammers that are made
where there is a strike on. forgot
the name Of the firm.
There was also two communica-
tons from the grand lodge on ques-
ton of holding convention, ETC., etc.,
The quotation has a certain 1u1nor,
the more when it is remembered that
the man who wrote it was paid for
the writing and that the labor policy
Of the employer who read it was, in
some measure at least. governed by
. the Information which it failed to fur
nish.
But this is not a report of unusual
emptiness A director Of Kuppen-
heinier Bros, clothing manufacturers
OF Chlcagof has spoken fee1ing1y Of
the futility of Espionage, complaining
that, in the days when his firm util-
lied the Industrial detective agencies,
he had never known spy's report to
contain any information Of value He
$50 ma rs CHI
the other directors" We have seen
reports furnish the basis for state
| ments made before congress, reports
which were founded on absolute mac
curacy, if not on deliberate lying.
The instance Of the confidential re-
port made to the United States Steel
| corporation on the Interchurch World
| investigators of the steel strike was
notable. It contained scarcely a single
fact which could have been substanti-
ated. And the Steel corporation acted
directly upon it's text.
| - No Truth In 1t.
Lately's spy's report of the Ma
tional Manufacturers association de-
scribed the personal life and opinions
of a certain orderly, if liberal, citizen
Of New York. Beyond a careful de-
scription OF the apartment In which
he lives, there was not a word of truth
in it,
It is not here question of ethics
nor Of the efficiency Of espionaEe in
destroying the labor union. It is a
question, merely, Of the common sense
Of substituting espionage for the di-
rect relationship. toward which in
dustry must tend, of depending upon
the fruits Of espionage for the fornnu-
lation OF any labor policy The testi-
nlony of the ,Kuppenheimer director is
only reinforced by that Of his fellows
who have abandoned the substitute
for the real thing.
One final use to which espionage is
turned is propaganda by the employer.
The following quotation is from one
of series of bulletins circulated by
the mill operators Of Passair a year
ago: They were printed in four IAN
Euases to reach that po1yglot working
populations The evidences of espion-
age are too abvious to require COM
ment.
"Passaic, N. j., Nov. 20, 1919.
1.-THE truth is Out at Last.
AT the A. r. w. Of A. convention
in Patterson the financial report rem
dered showed that they have 81 locals
with $4,000 members, Who paid In
over $4,000 from May to Sept. 50,
1919. - .....- u JIM II \ !
"But there was only seas left in the
treasury, Furthermore, the report
stated that these textile locals owe the
Amalgaf11ated Clothing Workers Of
America 5000. @ @ .s6s -.
During the same convention it was
said that Lawrence was 80 per cent
organized and that Ill other locals
were equally organized, except Pas
said, which was admitted IS b the
worst efs Inc lot. wing onlst bout 1os