The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-09-15
COMP ANY UNIONS
AND LABOR SPY
IN SAME FAMILY
Many Corporations Use
Both Methods
BY ROBERT w. DUNN,
Federated Pree

against trade unions by many Amer
lean corporations. This fact is again
emphasized by series of articles now
appearing in the Daily News, Pas
sale, N. j. paper The articles are
written by Harvey G. Ellerd OF the
personnel department Of Armour & co.
and are intended to bolster up the
company union idea among the strik-
ing textile workers who refuse to re
turn to the tyranny of "employe re-
presentation" at the Forstmann and
Huffman mills, or to accept the offer
Of company union now made by the
Botany Mills.
New Relationship"
ENLLERD'S article of course make
IL no mention OF labor spies. In
stead they reek with phrases touching
on the new relationship between en-
ployer and employee" 'the rule of
reason" and "co-operation and better
feelings" He is describing the work
ings Of the company union committees
in the Armour stock yards, where un-
dercover operatives and spies have
been aiding the company union, dur
ing the last few years, in wiping out
the last vestiges Of the real labor
unionism achieved in war days.
In Passaic likewise detectives and
company unionism have been cooper
ating to liquidate trade unionism.
Other great American corporations
where the spy and the newer meth
ode ~ Iohor oo-ordsna4govst 1,ov. La~.
used without any suggestion Of incon-
sistency are many of the railroads.
such as the Pennsylvania, the Sante
Fe, the Union Pacific, the Delaware
and Lackawanna, the Long Island, the
Boston and Maine, the Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie, the Atlantic Coast Line
the Great Northern and the New
York, New Haven and Hartford. On
the latter road the notorious Sherman
corporation, Engineers Americas
premier labor spy service, installed
and developed the company union
system among the shop craft workers
Spies Everywhere.
ELABORATE espionage and com
~ pany union systems are used side
by side on some Of the leading street
and electric lines. Among such are
the Interborough RAND Transit COM
pany Of New York, the Brooklyn-Man-
haitian corporation of the same city,
the Kansas City Railways, the Louis
Vile Railway, the Twin City Rapid
Transit Co. Of Minneapolis, and the
Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light
company.
OF the more than 700 miscellaneous
corporations that now employ the
the latest "employe representation"
devices to forestau and defeat trade
unionism the following are known to
have used the INSIDE undercover
man." either hired directly or through
one of the several hundred detective
or engineering services now sharing
in American prosperity: The Inter
national Paper Co.; Sheffield Farms
milk distributors of New York; Amos
keag Manufacturing Co.; Wheeling
Steel corporation and Bethlehem Steel
corporation. In the current issue Of
Labor Age Louis Budenz gives a close
up Of the company union plus spy
system in force at the Lackawanna
plant Of Bethlehem Steel.
Some More.
OTHER company union and spy en-
" ployers are Du Pont, de Nemours
& Co. of Wilmington, Delaware; Bor-
den Farms Products Co of New York:
Davis Coal and Coke Co. of Maryland:
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. OF
Akron; Hooker Electro Chemical Co.
Of Niagara Falls, presided over by
Elon H. Hooker, president OF the
American Defense Society; the Inter
type corporation Of BROOKLYN Pacific
Mills Of Lawrence, Mass. Phelps
Dodge corporation of Bisbee, Arizona
Pacific Steamship Co. OF Seattle; the
Standard OIL companies OF New Jer-
sey and Indiana; the Washburn-Cros-
by Co. of Minneapolis; the Westing-
house Electric and Manufacturing Co.
Of East Pittsburgh and the Youngs-
town Sheet & Tube Co.
The Pullman Co. employees the spy
system as an auxiliary 70 the com
pany union. In its efforts to organize
the Negro workers the Brotherhood OF
Sleeping Car Porters has run into
dozens Of spies and stools the Pullman
Co. is using against the trade union
and in behalf Of the company organize
ton.
The Blacklist.
MANY OF the company.unionized cor
An porations such as the Forstmann
and HUFFMAN Co OF Passaic, also use
an effective blacklist in connection
with the operations Of the central spy.
ing and employment agency
A few company union firms, such as
the Dennison Manufacturing Co. OF
birmingham, Mass and the Duchess
Bleachery OF Wapplnger Falls. n. Y,
use no spies their owners and man.
ayers being opposed to espionage on
ethical grounds. But the great major.
ity of companies with company unions