The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-07
EXPOSE FORWARD
Mine FORGERIES
Branded Stool Pigeons
by Miners Union
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page. All this in order to besmirch
the left wing and its leaders.
On Saturday, Nov. 49, the jew
ish Daily Forward came out with
headlines which shrieked "Spies
Are Helping Communists Break the
Miners Unionr' And in the center
Of the page a reproduction of let
ter was framed. This letter was
supposedly sent from a mysterious
detective, signing himself No. II,
to his chief, New York private de-
tective. This letter is reproduced
first in these columns, followed by
the genuine letterhead ct one time
used by the Coal Digger offices.
In unmasking the socialist spy
forgery, the Coal Digger asks the
Forward how they could explain
having laid hands on the letter, even
if the Forwards charge that it was
genuine were to be believed. Did
the socialist gentlemen have regular
business relations with the detective
and employers spy agencies, the
Forward is asked. But the Nation
al Miners Union organ now def
nitely proves-to anyone with eye
sight-that the Forward does deal
with detective spies and forgers, as
even a glance at the genuine letter
head shows.
BaseIess SANDERS.
At the time of the appearance of
the forgeries in the reactionary
press, the fact that these were
cheap baseless ISLANDERS was appar-
ent by the fact that paid detective
spies do not send in signed reports
to their central offices on station
cry of the union or it's organ. Of
course, it was admitted by the left
wing miners union that the en-
ployers may consider them danger
Gus enough to their profits to send
spies into the organization, but
spies don't readily use union sta
tionery.
Before the glazing discrepancies
are pointed out in detail one more
item of interest may be recorded.
This is the information carried by
the Coal Digger on the news repre-
sentative of the Forward and his
open and chummy friendliness with
notorious coal operators spy.
The Coal Digger charges: "Upon
the occasion of the Pittsburgh Dis
trict Convention, which was held in
May of this year, that Thomas
Myerscough, district secretary-trea
surer, publicly attacked Michael
Halapy, thought by scores to be a
coal operators spy, who was sitting
in the gallery of the convention for
three days. Who was Halapy's
company and conversational friend
for those three days in the gallery?
None other than Mr.. julius Vein
berg, Pittsburgh representative of
the yellow Jewish Daily Forward"
Discrepancies.
The bungling forgers of the $50
cialist" Forward are exposed by an
other significant fact. The Coal
Digger at one time did use a letter
head with a somewhat similar word
ing. That was up till last March
when that letterhead was perma-
nently discarded for another, new
one. The forged letter is dated Au
gust 2 and besides is not even
good copy Of that old letterhead
The following discrepancies sho-
it:
l. The missing slogan, "Organi
the Women" on the fake letter 81
gan box, which is on the genuine
2. The disproportion of the lette.
ing on the fake as compared wit
the genuine Compare the words
"Save" and Committee" as to their
respective positions underneath the
slogan boxes.
8. The enlarged union label on
the fake, which is larger than that
Of the genuine, and which is also
to the right of the word 1.-THE" un-
derneath, whereas on the genuine
the word "The" is directly under
meath the label.
4. The absence of the two dashes
in connection with the word "The"
(The Coal Digger on the fake,
which is plainly discernible on the
genuine.
5. Following the Room 405-526
Federal St." on the fake letter, the