The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-15


time, financial secretary Of his branch.
Aside from that, he was not active,
and showed no particular capability
in the movement. HIS talents lay
along different lines.
Has spy CONFESSIONS.
Spolansky asserts that he is oppos
ed to professional spies in the labor
movement and that he did not be.
come connected with the secret serv.
ice until after he had severed all con-
nections with the socialist party.
However that may be, it is quite clear
that his negotiations with the police
began long before 1916. His uncle,
Make Mills, was for rs or 80 years
head of the Anarchist squad" of the
Chicago police department-and it
was thru Mills influence that Spolan-
sky landed the job with the depart
ment of justice. There can be no
doubt that Spolansky sold out, be-
came a turncoat and capitalized his
rather narrow acquaintance with the
radical movement because he was
poor and he saw chance to pick up
easy money. because he lacked the
moral fibre of which staunch work
ing class fighters are made.
The high spot in Spolansky's career
as a detective was his organization,
under the direction Of super-dick
William J.. Burns, Of the brutal raid
on the convention of the Communist
Party at Bridgeman. Michigan, in the
summer of 1922. which resulted in the
Indictment of William q Foster, c. E.
Ruthenberg, William 3 Dunno and 20
other CoEanunist eaers. While
some of thedefendants were ilmpris-
oned in the county jail at st. Joseph,
Spolansky openly declared that the
real purpose of the raid was to terror
ize the militant workers thruout the
country and thus aid in smashing the
big railroad and coal strikes which
were then in progress. The attempt
to convict Foster (now Workers Party
candidate for president) failed. In
the case of Ruthenberg, however, the
prosecution accomplished it purpose
by playing skilIfully upon the pre-
JUDGES of handpicked jury. Ruthen-
berg's appeal comes up before the
Michigan supreme court this week.
1t is being financed by the Labor De-
Tense Council, 166 W. Washington ST..
Chicago.
Shows Sleuths in Real Life.
In the movies, and in popular mag
azine serials, secret service men are
invariably clean-cut, upright, courage
Gus youths, who give their lives un.
selfshly to protecting the honor and
interests Of their country. But in
real life they are sneaks and turncoats
like Spolansky, ever willing to accept
a bride, and without the slightest con.
ception Of what honor means. More
often than not, detectives are a com
bination of stool-pigeon and gunman
usually with shady past. They take
part habitually in unlawful and VIC
lent raids, searches and seizures.
cause fraudulent arrests, and use the
third degree to force men to accuse
themselves or others falsely. In one
way or another they have become
practiced in the black arts Of inquisi-
ton. They utilize this training to
fasten themselves like leeches on the
men who possess wealth, striving to
convince them that only by employ.
ing protection" of the type they Of
fer, can wealth be preserved in cap.
italist hands and continued opportun-
ity afforded to plumber industry and
exploit wage workers
If you wish to read the full truth
about SpolaRsky and his associates,
read the DAILY WORKER. In the
articles Of this series, we
shall relate some OF the notorious
frame-ups engineered by Spolansky
against labor. We shall expose the
connection between the government
and the Burns Detective Agency. We
shall tell the complete truth about
the Wall Street bomb explosion, the
Gary Avengers" the plots to kill
prominent Americans, and various
other interesting matters--which are
advertised for exposure by the Daily
News. but which, nevertheless, will
not be actually exposed except in the
DAILY WORKER.