Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-10-16
strike Failure In Amcrisan Potts.

MOI a ship Vas tied az IN any Amer
lean port. lt h. claimed. notWithstand=
ing the many Rrandiloquent bulletins
Witch were issued
The American end of the attempt b
| disrupt the International Scamens
/ Union Of Alaefiea ami tine Sailors AMI
| tfremen's Union of Great Britain aud
| Ireland has been declared "oit' hy The
| |. ". W, and the outlaw strike IA
| Australia haH gone booeS George
| Hams Is still hanging onto the topes
IN England At this writing. but h ceiz
tain 10 No down to defeat.
! International Labor Nows Service
can nghtfully claim a bis share of the
credit for defeating thus worldwide
attempt by the Rcd International Of
Labor uniona of Russia % disrupt aud
capture two great international unioua
uf seamen.
tniun ASKS |, l.. y. ). To Help.
International Labor News Service
was asked tor help when George
| Hardy had reached the zenith OF hla
power in misleading British seamcn
all around the world,
international Labor New Service
knocked the props from under Hardy
within ten days after IL got on thu
| job. The tasy was simple enough. but
1t took some rapid thinking aud ener.
getic leg work here in Chicago Tor "A
| few dhya.
Officers of the Sailors and fifemen'a
| Union of Great Britain and Ireland
cabled TO the international Seamon's
lnuion of America asking who In heck
this fellow Hardy was, The British
seamen knew that Hardy had lived IN
America for a long time, but they did
not have any exact Information con
lceininE him.
Victor A. olander, secretary treas
urer of tho international Seamrna
Union of America, turned the matter
over TO International Labor News
Service fof Investigation. Altar 1--we
days of examination Of United States
Government records. research among
old newspaper files and interviews
with former acquaintance of George
Handy here in Chicago, story wa
eablod 10 the Seamen Of London. oiTi
clal publication Of the British sailors.
Story Cablcd Around World
! The seamcn recognized the story as
the ren goods aud relascd Ii tu Aus
tralia, South Africa and the Orient.
The immediate result iu Australia was
that the Communist strike leader
there took TO tho tail timber and the
strike collapsed.
The officers Of the Sailors and Fire
mems Union of Great Britain and Ire
land very generously appropriated
$4,000 10 take care Of the destitute
families left in the wake OF the Aus
tfnlian liasco
Over Ia England Handy yelled,
! Liar. murder. watch, polccl" when
! the eablod story from international
| Labor News Service was made public.
| The British seamen not only published
| the story In their official organ. bat
| they also had printed many thousands
| Of handbils containing the full story
and played up with big headlines.
| These bills We're passed out Ina large
| quantities in every British port, and
a great number of them found their
way To all parts OF the world on out
going ships.
Communists Make Abusive nenials.
Publication Of the story in England
enrhRcd the Third international gang
over and their publications came out
In abusive attacks and loud denials of
the truthfulness of the statements
contained in the International Labor
News Service cableRfam Hardy him.
self was the loudesl IN these denials.
and he threatened 10 sue the Sailors
and Fifemens Union for S25, 900
damages. He denied his identity with
the man who d al served time In
1oavenw0rth prison az Il result of hts
conduct in this country during the
World War, and claimed that be had
been "gob" serving on war vessel
during that time.
Officers Of the British seamen
cabled Hardy's statements and denials
70 international Labor News Service
at Chicago and asked for another
story. 4 G00-w0fd story was prompt
Ily sent by cable, aud that cooked
Hardy goose properly. His stock isn't
worth one cent on the dollar now.
Worker Admits Truth of Story.
A comical angle 10 the situation il
the attitude Of the Daily Worker,
official organ Of the Russian Soviet
government in America The Daily
Worker admits in a first-page article
that Hardy is the man that lnterna-
tioual Labor News Service has said he
is, but claims that it was a dirty, low
down, mean trick 10 tell on him. The
Daily Worker points the finger Of
scorn at Victor A. Olander. Andrew
Furuseth, and J. Haverlock Wilson,
head Of the British seamep, ard
charges them with having made a
dc spicable attack" on Hardy. the be-
| loved "c0mrade" OF Foster, Ruthen-
berg, Trotzky. Zinoviev, ct al.