The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-04-09
Vol COnfesses That
He Acted As Spy
(Continned fro1n Pane Onol

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dreds? myself was arrested for no
reason at all and was freed upon APP
peal to a higher court"
Shapiro also pointed out the un-
precedented brutalities of the police
up to the very end of the strike, and
particularly the activities Of the in
dustrial squad. He told how workers
were attacked by gangsters, and that
these hirelings of the bosses were
almost never arrested.
Police Attacks Brutal.
"We often used to say that the po-
lice and the industrial squad could
not do better job if they were on
the employers payroll.
"0ur lawyer took the matter up
with several police officials whom he
knew, and we protested to the Cen
trail Trades and Labor Council, which
sent a delegation to the mayor. But
the brutalities went on just the
same"
A. f. of l.. Hearings Fishy.
Several times at Yesterdays hear
/ ing it was mentioned as it had been
by witnesses the previous day, that
Matthew Woll was the only member
Of the Investigating committee who
was regularly present; and that on
many occasions there was no steno-
grapher present, or she was asked
not to take notes.
Walsh Hits Vol.
Frank P. Walsh, attorney for the
Joint Board, drew attention to the
fact that Woll and McGrady had at
tempted to give the impression that
the Joint Board leaders had asked
for this withdrawal Of the steno-
grapher.
Assuming that this inquiry is only
to get at the facts in this case," said
Mr.. Walsh, 81 believe, in the interests
of fairness it should be brought out
that it was Mr.. Vol and the rest of
the committee who asked the steno-
grapher to leave"
At these times, the sole recorder
of the proceedings was Mr.. Vol.
This was the case during Shapiro's
appearance before the committee, and
he declares that Woll made repeated
efforts to force from him statements
that he had paid money to members
of the police force.
Vol Plays the StooIpigeOn.
Il told him over and over again
that we did not pay any money!" said
Shapiro. "But he would come back
to the subject and say, with a wink,
Now come on, tell me how much you
paid captains. Was it $3.50 a week? |
How much did you pay the members
of the industrial squad? Come on,
tell me. This is just conference on
union affairs between friends. There
is no harm in telling me-
"And I would tell him: Mr.. Vol, |
do you think we would be paying the
industrial squad to beat up our work
ers and send them to the hospital? |
We never paid any money to any po-
licemen or to any Official"
Shapiro said he and other Joint
Board leaders had strenuously Omjec-
ted to Hugh Frayne, the New York |
organizer, being a member of the COM
mittee.
"Mr. Frayne had proved himself
dishonest in his dealings with this
union and we objected to his being a
member of the committee" said
Shapiro. "Time and again he had
showed himself to be not a represent
tative of labor but representative of |
| the employers. We did not trust him."
did you object to Mr.. Woll or
Mr.. McGrady," asked Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Brothers.
''No, we did not know them then,''
said Shapiro.
Never Saw Own Testimony.
Questioned as to whether he had |
ever been shown what was alleged |
to be his testimony before the inves-
tigating committee, Shapiro reported
that altho Woll had promised that the |
minutes of the proceedings should be
submitted to the members of the Joint |
Board for correction, they had never
seen copy of them, had never signed
their names to them, and knew moth |
| ing at all about what they were
charged with saying until the stories
came out in the newspapers.
Explains Expenditures.
Shapiro was grilled about expendi-
lures he had made during the strike |
in an effort to discover whether there |
was any money for which he could
not account; but he explained just
what had been done with the Law
Committees money and that vouchers
for all Of it were in the hands of the
finance committee.
Asked about one particular receipe
which the auditors said they could
not find, Shapiro replied
"Well there were lot Of things
those auditors did not want to find"
Gold and Hyman Speak
On Crisis in Needle |