The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-17
BURNS LABOR
SPYING Barred
BY LETTE R S
sd. of j." and Private
Agency Involved
Continued from page u

Metal Miners Industrial Union of the
L WV. and Operative j. J. Spear,
"z-S", in the agency, and active mem
Der Of the /. w. W., recommended
for delegate-ship by Haines in a
letter to- the headquarters of the
union.
We find Manager Pross, of the Los
Angeles agency, writing Mr.. r. w.
Burns in New York, under date of
June %, 1923, that the mine com
panies of Arizona are greatly pleased
with the work of EVIL" (Haines)
and he refers complacently to the
stools progress in the union as fol-
lows:
Stool Appoints Stools.
Investigator WI has been
made an iorganizer and it is only
a matter of a week or so when he
will be made a general organizer
and he will then be in power to
make delegates and organizers and
he will of course Immediately make
my other men ID. & o. so as to put
them on the inside. We are work.
ing in direct touch with the Dept.
Of Justice whom the Gov
ernor (Burns) transferred from
Butte
That is the game, The under-coveH
man becomes an official and then
appoints his own men to the posts
where they can do the most effective
union smashing.
Turned All Webs In.
Haines was what is known in the
l. w. W. as a travelling" delegate.
He made the rounds of the copper
mining camps of Arizona and his in
structions were to make himself
solid with the organization by lining
up lot of members. This he did
but as fast as they were lined up
their names were reported. His let
tiers tell exactly who was stamped up
with dues stamps, who pasted stick
ers in the county Jail, who is work
ing for which mine. They state that
certain shutters in the mines will not
hire any but members of the l. W..
w. and that "Officer Searles of the
Police Force" is an |. w. w.
He tells of comforting with mine
managers and searching fellow work
ers rooms and teaming up with De-
partment of Justice agents. In par
ticular he tells Of reporting to Ode
partment of Justice Agent Noonan"-
this in his letter to manager Pross,
June 10, 1928.
Stopping U. S. Mail.
Burns agents even have power to
stop United States mails.
Note this letter from Haines to
Pross, June 10: It refers to hating
the mails and suggests action against
a good fellow worker.
Il am sure that Matthews is
wanted either in Taft or Bakers
field, Calf, l am to get in touch
with ID. j. agent NO0nan upon my
return to Globe, for further infor-
nation, you should put a stop on
all mail at Prescott, for John Gra-
ham and Matthews"
That radicals mail is not sacred is
nothing new. The DAILY WORK
Frs mail has been opened too. But
we wonder what explanation the arch
dick will make when Senator Burton
X. Wheeler asks him on the witness
stand what authority the agents of
a private detective agency-which he |
is shown by his own letters to be still
directing-had to stop United States
mail. If Burns lies again the agen-
cy's letters will be at hand to burn
his eyes.
Two days later on the 21st Of June
the stoolpigeon's report is a wall: A |
crude policeman at Superior, Arizona,
took him for an honest-to-god /. w.
w. and threw him into a vile can.
Hear his lament to Manager Pross:
In the Course OF Duty.
In about an hour officer r. L. |
Wilkinson came in the Jail with |
officer Pat Gorham, and they
searched me and took all my papers
and books, and then took my key
and went thru my room, and such |
a Raging l got, there was no
drinking water to be had, and l |
was sick at the time, high fever
and dyssentery. -.
"Officer Poole stated he would
hold me 48 hours, for inyestiga-
ton, and so l was up against it,
no light in the Jail, and il was in
Tested with dozens of mice, bed
bugs, and lice, and I was utterly
exhausted, and fell on the old cot,
and while lying there the mice
would crawl over me dis
continued at IL Midnight, in Jail"
But WI finally got word to Noon
an, the Department of Justice agent
and they got him out. He was pretty
sick from one night in the Jail that
he spends his lifetime trying to rail-
road workers into, and many letters
between the managers of the Burns
agency refer sympathetically to this
poor stoolpigeon's experience.
Exploiting Martyrdom.
The stool pigeon makes the most Of |