The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-09-13
ELECTION fraud
OF HARRINGTON
IS LAID BARE
Daily Worker Gives the
Facts to Miners
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throw light on an important link
IN. the chain of treason of the crook
ed labor leaders and their coal-com-
pany allies.
The Trail Of the Thieves.
The DAILY WORKER has uncover
ed the following facts concerning the
stealing Of the sub-district election Of
last December:
Shortly before the union election
two men, as yet unidentified, but be-
lieved to have been connected with
the ku klux khan and the harrington
machine, appeared at the printing
shop of J. W. Grear in West Frank
fort where the official ballots had
been printed for the sub-district cleo
ton of the union. The unknown men
asked Grear to print 5000 additional
copies of the ballot from the same
type, and offered to pay well. Grear
refused the offer.
The agents of reaction in some way
obtained a copy of the official ballot,
and went to another printer to get
some fraudulent ballots printed.
But it was impossible for the sec
ond printer to make an exact dupli-
cate that could not be detected. The
original ballot had been printed from
imperfect type-that is, type that was
battered and broken. This could not
be initiated with any other type.
Method of the counterfelter.
For this reason it became necessary
for the forgers to make photogra-
phic likeness of the original ballot,
so that the peculiarities Of the brok-
en- type would be the same. The ori-
ginal ballot was taken to a photo-en-
craving shop. The photo-engraver
made what he thought was an exact
reproduction of the type of the bal
lot, down to the slightest detail, brok-
en- type and all, with one exception
the engraver apparently was afraid to
reproduce the printers union label be.
cause there is law penalizing the
making Of a duplicate Of the union
label for purposes Of deception. So
the engraver left the union label out
of the engraving.
Apparently for the reason that the
union label was missing, and because
it was necessary to supply this de-
ficiency, the forgers seem to have
hunted up a printing shop having a
label with the same shop number
as the shop where the original bal.
lot was printed.
The original ballot has on it the
union label bearing the number "S'
and the name of the town, west
Frankfort" which means that it was
printed in the shop of ]. w. Grear OF
West Frankfort.
The forged ballot also carries a
union label number 3, but with the
name of the town mutilated so that
it cannot be read. An expert photo
grapher has photographed this label,
however, thru a powerful magnifying
lens, and the experts agree that 1t
reads mt. Vernon, ILL.," This would
at least specifically indicate that the
forged job was printed in the shop
having the label number in the town
of Mt. Vernon, few miles from West
Frankfort The printing shop in Mt
Vernon which uses the label No. 8,
is the shop of Theo. P. STEELE. How
ever, the DAILY WORKER in the alb
sence of more conclusive evidence
cannot make the charge that the forg'
ed ballot was printed there. A close
comparison of the label on the forg'
ed ballot to the label appearing on
work done by Stelle's shop seems to
confirm the identity of the labels, al
tho it is of course possible that
StelIe's label was stolen and used Il
another shop.
Union Label Mutlated.
The smearing of the printers label
was necessary in order to conceal
the fact that the forged ballot was
nvfvfad IN the oufhOrizad ah0n