The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-24
LETTER TO FRAME
TOM RAY AS SPY
QUICKLY EXPOSED
BootIegger Is Finder of
Fake Document
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working with their employees instead
Of for them. Keep playing up to G.. p.
as he is the strongest man in sight
just now. Does he still appear to be
as flush as when he first arrived in
the region?
"You must be careful about spend
ing as to always have money to pay
your way looks bad. Borrow as often
as you can as that gives the impress
sion you have nothing but your pay
from the C. p"
J.J.o
Die.
p. S.-M. NJ.
100-X27
Sign your number date and return
Immediately"
The last instruction was stamped
with rubber stamp. G. P. is sup
posed to refer to Comrade George
Papcun
Ray Active in Strike.
At first the letter came as a shock
to those who have known Comrade
Ray and have seen him in action dur
ing the strike. Ray was sent to the
striking area by the district office Of
the Workers Party and during the
several days that he spent there he
was out on the picket line, was dis
tributing leaflets together with other
miners, was addressing meetings and
was otherwise helping the strike I'M
der the supervision of the district Of
flee of the party. He returned to
Pittsburgh Tuesday morning by re-
quest of the party to take up other
party work.
Suspicious individuals.
During the strike several individu-
ais Of a rather dubious character
among them a we'll known bootlegger
we're mingling with the strikers.
These individuals were suspected as
being agents either of the company
or of the union officials who have
been constantly attacking Tom Ray
for his active participation in the
Progressive Miners Committee. It is
remarkable that it was just these in
dividuals who helped to find" the
letter, and who were trying their best
to stir up the miners against Tom Ray
and the Workers Pzrty. 1t was a
cousin Of the above bootlegger who
did the Ending"
Investigation Exposes Plot.
Fortunately the miners did not lose
their heads and decided that a COM
mittee of three shall at once proceed
to Pittsburgh to take the matter up
with the district office of the Workers
Party as the miners have learned
I during the strike to have full conf
denee in the party. This was done
and the committee of three (among
them was also the individual who
claimed that he found the letter. ar
rived at Pittsburgh shortly after mid
night. A glance at the document"
was sufficient to convince anyone that
it was an attempt at frame-up in
order to discredit Tom Ray and tc
| disrupt the strike. However in order
/ to clear up the matter and to leave
no doubts in the minds of the men
out on strike it was decided to lose no
time, but to proceed at once to Nc
Donald where Ray resides to investi-
gate the matter The committee of
three, together with the writer of
these lines and a comrade from West
Brownsville, reached Mcdonald by
I N m mi NJ sol,
Ray out of bed and with his full con-
sent proceeded to search the house.
Naturally, nothing of any suspicious
character was found.
Further investigation revealed that
Ray was in Uniontown on Nov 13 be-
fore the letter reached that city and
while in Uniontown he did not visit
the post-office. This fact was esta-
blished by a comrade of Uniontown
who was with Comrade Ray during
the entire period of his stay there. 1t
was further established that since
then he never visited Uniontown
again. Comrade Ray left Republic
Tuesday early in the morning. The
letter was found" about 2 D. m. Be-
fore this time quite number of men
were in the room where the letter
was supposed to be found, but curious
enough, no one noticed the letter I'M
til the bootlegger's cousing happened
to come into the room together with
the bootlegger himself.
Tom is Exonerated.
The nature OF the letter, the facts
quoted above, the actions of Comrade
Ray during the strike, the circums-
tances under which the letter was
found" and numerous OTTER facts left
no doubts in the minds Of the COM
mittee that the alleged letter was
nothing but fake and unanimously
decided to exonerate Tom Ray and to
recommend that further efforts be
made to identify the forces behind
this attempt at frame-up. The Dis
trict Executive Committee Of the
party. of Dist. is now making an
effort to locate those responsible for