The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-10-22
UNDERCOvER Man
>F0MENTS STRIFE.
IN LABOR RANKS
Supplementary Report on Steel
Strike Issued by |nterchurch
World Movement.

WQ[lQ MOVEMENT.
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could not be suppressed in Charleroi
also. It, undoubtedly, would be BOO
also. It, undoubtedly, would be a boon
for all steel interests in this particu-
lar section"
Seek to Control Unions.
The espionage, the study shows,
was hardly concealed during the strike.
The Corporations Auxiliary company
manager told the Investigator that
their aim was work into the labor
unions. I'VE expect eventually TO
control the unions which have .all-
en- into radical hands in the last few
years." sAll this is done with the
highest profession of good Intentions.
The Corporations Auxiliary MANA
ger was called twice from Pittsburgh
to Wheeling just as the strike broke
badly in Wheeling. He said to the
Investigator:
Nov, for instance, this is how we
work. We might do this in Wheeling,
for example. We might have 40 to
so men there in different trades, work.
in from all angles. We could expect
10 or IS of them to reach positions
OF influence in local unions. Five
or more would become union off,
Gals. We might expect in that way
to have men as international officers
Or even members Of the State Fedora
ton Of Labor.
He said that a ''member OF the
strike national committee was their
man." He made the flat statement:
''Take Akron, Ohio, for example;
we control the situation there. There
is no trouble. in Akron. When the A.
F. Of l.. organizer comes to Akron
he reports to our man."
Union Spies are Exposed.
The study points out that this state
ment was made in the END Of 1913
and that over year later ten high
labor officials in Akron, Ohio. were
exposed as on the payroll Of the Cor
poratins Auxiliary company. A for
mer treasurer and a former president
Of: the Akron Central Labor Union
and man who was candidate for the
Akron city council were among those
exposed and expelled from the unions
by the efforts of union members who
had become suspicious. In Wheeling
in the past month, the unions exposed
officials there who were also Spies
The study also gives tho detailed
affidavit Of an operative, 1884,"
who worked for several years inside
Chicago unions. stirring up strikes.
Many manufacturing plants are named
and an attempt to swing a union cleo
ttion is detailed.
Incite Riots and 1nsurrection.
The study relates tho activities dur
ing the strike Of another concern,
sherman Service, also with offices
in New York. Boston, st. Louis, Phil
adelphia, Cleveland, New Haven.
Providence, and Toronto. Sherman
Services Chicago offices were raided
by. the authorities during the strike
| and its advisory director was in
dicted for conspiracies and intent Ito
create riots, instruction and murder"
Instructions to Operatives (under-
! cover mem to stir up race hatreds
between Italian and Serbian strikers
are reproduced in the study. The
very elaborate efforts of Shrman Ser
vice, through ful1-page newspaper
advertisements and court proceedings,
to appear before the public as bene-
ficent influence, are detailed. The
Sherman Service Chicago manager
like the Corporations Auxiliary mana
ger, told the investigator that it was
also their. aim to control labor un-
ions and to get their Representatives
to hold "the highest offices in the
unions"
Finally the study traces the use
made of industrial espionage against
the commission Of inquiry and the
interchurch movement from November
1919, to the summer Of 1920. The
! report Of an unnamed undercover man
who pursued the commissions invcs.
tigators in in Pittsburgh and inspected
the interchurch offices in New York
is given in full. It was sent to the
offices Of the United States Steel Cor
poration, being dated two days after
the commissions first interview with
judge E. H. Gary, chairman Of the
corporation November 10, 1919. The
"anonymous' report called the in.
vestigators members of the I. W
w." and "reds."
Serious Episode in Inquiry.
The study says 1.-The anonymous
special report became serious cpl.