Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-22
Boilermakers' Chief Warns
Against "St0olpigeOns'

"Anti-union employers spend at
least sos 100000 year Tor stool
pigeons
President ]. A. Franklin Of Boiler
makers Industrial union astounded
the last convention of tha, organiza-
ton at Kansas City when he made
that declaration.
In support of his statement Presi-
dent Franklin cite Jean +. Spiel
mans book The stool Pigeon" as
authority.
President Franklin stated that
Spielman had found in the inyestiga-
tion he made which IL the basis for
hi startling book The Stool Pigeon
that the Pinkerton, Thie and Burns
detective agencies were employing
about $1,000 Operatives aud that
7j per cent of this army Was under
cover" men in labor organizations.
The boilermakers' chef declared
that Spielman estimated tlat the anti
union employers spent At least $780,
90 Ga year in this way.
Continuing his report To the CON
vention along this line President
Franklin said.
These open shop employer are
having private detective agenCle les sup
plying them with stool pigeon. These
spies, If they are not already mem
bers, seek membership in ne regular
labor unions.
They can be best detected bA their
constant agitation intended TO involve
the workers in all kinds of trouble
With the ultimate object of discredit-
ing the organized labor movement.
No opportunity is lost, either in
union meetings or outside, TO SOW the
seeds of scandal, diseord and dlsrup-
ton"
As an illustration of the wav IN
which private detective agencies gouge
EMPLOYERS, President Franklin cited
an incident recorded in Spielmans
book, 'The Telling Belle Milk COM
pany of Cleveland was resisting the
demand of its employees for a small
wage increase, and IT called IN the
Field Service company, a strike break
ing agency.
at agreed TO pay the toughs and
thugs engaged by this detective agen-
cy sl2 day and SO expenses, OF more
than three times what its old and
faithful employees had asked.
"The total bill for their sefvices
was abou, $685. 900 and when the com
pany refused TO pay the whole story
was laid bare in court"
President Franklin recommended 10
the convention "a concerted effort to
secure legislation outlawing these
trouble maxim agencies.
To produce discofd and bitter feel
ing is the object Of private detectlNe
agencies operating in industry. Stooi
pigeons know that when there is no
trouble their services are likely TO be
need no longer. So at the expense
of both employer and worker they
promote all kinds of trouble in order
that they and the agency for which
they work may profit.
.Spielman's book is gaining more
and more attention. Its starting eN-
posures should be read not only by
members of organized labor but by
fair minded employers as well. For IL
discloses that both elements of indus
try are exploited by the stool pigeon
agencies TO the detriment of the com
munity. the employer and the worker
and only TO the gain OF the Stooi
pigeon and the stool pigeon agencies.
TO know how the stool pigeon woi KS
is 10 know how to avoid many Of the
pitfalls that beset industry and how
they work is told with an authority OF
evidence in Spielman's book, The
Stool Pigeon" that never has been at
tempted before.-From Minneapolis
Labor Review, Friday, December 20,
1925.
The book may be obtained direct
from the author.
Price: Cloth bound, $685. paper
cover, SIPS. postpaid.
Address Jean f. Spielman. P.o. Box
708, Minneapolis, MINI.