The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-22
Continued from yesterday

g. Attorney General Daugherty and Mr. Burns zeal
evidently inspired the following announcement by Henry
Harrison Lewis in his paper Industrial Progress This
is in the January, 1924 ISSUE under the heading 81"
there is Bolshevk Activity in your Neghborhood Notify
the Department Of Justice at Washington"
Here is an invitation and a command to search dill
gently for every sign and vestge of efforts in plants
and in daily contacts to promote the economic political
and social chaos that furnishes the fertile soil for Boil
shevism
Each has duty that should be patriotic privilege:
to ferret out the sly agents of anarchy to mark their
comngs and goings and associations and to lead them
and their dupes into the light of day. The Department
of Justice of the United States dedicated to the
tinued welfare of all the people, will welcome such aid
the part of energetic citizens, and personal
of duty to country well performed will yield to them
permanent satisfaction"
Captain Sidney Howard dramatist and author of the
Labor Spy" writing the professional patriots in
the New Republic, September 10, 1924, describes the
close relation of these organizations to the government
departments:
"The militant patriots were publicity agents for Mr.
Burns. When he hadn't evidence to convict these so
called liberals and worse he turned the patriots loose
in his treasure house of and portentous sub
versive documents. There meat for them and pre-
cous little danger of libel SUITS too with such authority
behind them. Dwight Braman in the offices of the
Allied Patriotic Societies. Inc, and boosted that he was
in almost daily communication with the Department
of Justice Ralph Easey printed the Burns assistance
right out in his prospectus of the National Civic Fed
Progress. A
progress by the National Civic Federation by the way
is not without certain elements of humor. But they had
the cooperation of governmental agencies at Wash
ngton.' And one, except possibly Mr.. Whitney of
the American Defense Society called frequently
than Mr. Easley the Bureau of Investigation These
calls provided surmses, convenient link between
sworn enemies Mr. Burns and Easley's pal, Sam Com
pers; provided too, convenient of A. F. of l.
propaganda against renegade unions. AS to R. M.
Whitney he loved to write letters about his dependence
the Burns files He proclaimed it to the lawyers of
the Foster defense And letters written the Depart
ment in confidence by the National Student Forum
out in Mr.. Whtney's pamphlets. You and couldn't
have gotten into those Burns files But then we were
militant patriots, and therefore, of no use to Mr.
Burns"
The Spder-Web Chart.
An absurd but irritating piece of propaganda which
caused widespread protest from women's organiza-
tons the so-caed "spider-web chart prepared
in 1923 by Miss Lucia r. Maxwell, librarian of the
Chemical Warfare Service of the War Department
headed by General Amos Fries It illustrates the in
fuence Of certain hysterca professional patriots upon
highly important branch of a federal department. The
chart prepared apparently for the use of the
Woman Patriot for it is inscribed to Miss Mary Kill
berth of that journal with appreciation Of her work.
It's refers the web of lines between organza-
tons and leaders which are intended to tie
together in international conspiracy, directed, Of
course from Moscow, all the chief womens organza-
tions in the country
It is aimed primarily at the National Council for the
Prevention of War and the Women's international
League for Peace and Freedom, headed by Jane Ad-
DAMS and shows the connection with these two peace
societies Of in organizations represented in the
Women's Joint Congressional Committee, headed by
Mrs. Maude Wood Park of the National League OF
Women Voters The chart, which distributed
photostat copy of ink drawing about one by two
feet, is headed "The Socialst-Pacifist Movement in
America is absolutely Fundamental and Integral
part Of international Socialism"
ITO Be Continued