The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-12-22

A. R. Macdonald Inc, labor spy
with offices at APO Lexington Avenue
is still trying to break up an or
Hosiery Mills Inc. of Indianapolis by
Showing up" Louis Francis Budenz
as RED"
According to information received
by The DAILY WORKER, Macdonald
has during the last month held con-
ferences with Thomas T. Mcmahon,
president Of the United Textile Work
ers of America. One such conference
was held in the office Of Ralph M.
Easley, president of the National
Civic Federation, known to be a close
friend of MacMahon. Matthew Vol,
vice-president of the A. F. of L., is
the acting president of the Civic Fed
Grafton and has frequently cooperated
with that organization in his war on
the left wing.
Budenz is the editor of Labor Age,
a monthly labor journal published at
3 w. 10Th Street, For the last few
months he has been helping the
American Federation of Full Fash
toned Hosiery Workers, affiliated to
the United Textile Workers, organize
the workers in the Real Silk Mills.
Macdonald, as revealed by The
DAILY WORKER on November 18th
was engaged by the Real Silk Co. to
smash the union drive. Macdonald is
a former Sherman Service general
manager, but has since gone into the
labor spy game Of his own. He lists
himself as an industrial engineer"
In an effort to prove to Gustave
Geiges, President of the Full Fash
toned Hosiery Union that Budenz is
"Red," Macdonald has written a
series of letters some of which he has
also printed and circulated among
textile employers to impress them
with -MacDonald's knowledge of
the radical movement.
First Attacks Maurer.
The first of these letters, written
to Geiges, November 7, 1927 was
printed in full in The DAILY WORK
Err of November 18th. In it Mac
Donald charged that Budenz's rela-
lation to James H. Maurer, Pennsyl-
vania Labor Federation President,
was sufficient to prove that Budenz
was a "subversive radical" For
Maurer, he declared, had gone to the
Soviet Union last summer with the
American Trade Union Delegation
against the wishes of President
William Green of the A. F. of l..
Now After Budenz.
| Meanwhile Macdonald wrote an
other letter to Geiges, progressive
head of the Hosiery Workers, from
whom he had received no reply to
letter No. 1. The second letter which
has just come into the hands of The
DAILY WORKER is another attempt
to spike union organization by report
ing on Labor Age dinner held year
ago at which Maurer, Abraham Lef-
kowitz of the Teachers Union, Robert
Dunn, a frequent contributor to La
Dor Age, A. j. Music of Brookwood,
and others had spoken.
Macdonald believes he has hung
the cred" label on Budenz when he re-
ports in this letter that Arthur Cook,
Brookwood Labor College student
who spoke at the dinner, is none other
than A. j. Cook, General Secretary of
the Miners Federation of Great
Britain Although self-confessed
expert" on "any subject pertaining
to radicalism" Macdonald trips up
badly in his Cook Identification. A. J.
Cook of the Miners Union of Great
Britain has never been in the United
States.
The second letter follows in full:
November %, 1927
"Mr. Gustave Geiges, President
American Federation of
Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers Union,
North Fourth Street,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Dear Mr. Geigas:
"We are making an exhaustive
study of the various elements per-
tinent to the activities of LOUIS
FRANCIS BUDENZ, who is acting as
an organizer for your Union. We
thought you might be interested in
the rather stimulating and perhaps
not irrelevant little article which ap-
peared in the January 1927 issue of
! the Labor Age e | ng with
ROBERT w. DUNN, so we shall
quote it. January 1927, Page 9, Para
graph 2 under the caption of
''The AMERICAN BUREAU FOR
INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM
San Announcement at Our Fifth
Anniversary Dinner
$50 it proved to be on Decem-
h,r IA 1000 Ac tho countrv