The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-29
POLICE DOG men
from PLANT TO
PLANT IN KANSAS
Place Spies in Eating
Places
(Ry a Worker Correspondent)

KANSAS CITY, Kan, Jan. 2S.--
eve ignore the Communists and al
labor agitators. We are uneon-
cerned about the activities Of the
labor agitators. Our workers are
safe. Our company is in no way
connected with the arrests of the
"Red" trouble-makers in Kansas
City. Kan"
Such was the content and mean
ing of the statement issued by the
Armour Company through its Off
Gals to the Legal Council of the |.
L. D., which had charge of the de-
Tense of the Communist workers and
speakers arrested by the police of
Kansas for carrying on the election
meetings among the packing house
workers.
The purpose of the above state
ment was to attempt to whitewash
the Armour Company and the police
from completely in the campaign of
wiIlful persecution of militant work
ers and also to distract the attention
of the workers from the fact that
the police department works under
the instructions Of the Armour Co.
United Spy System.
The truth of the situation is that
the big meat companies maintain a
Joint spy system, under which every
worker is examined and careful
watch kept over him. One incident
glaringly reveals this fact.
One worker employed in the Kan
sas City plant of the Cudahy Co.
was discharged from employment
following a report made by the po-
lice department that this worker
was suspected of labor agitation.
The worker soon found employment
in the Wilson plant under an as
sumed name, but he was discovered
hy the superintendent, who identified
the worker because the latter was
left-handed. He was Immediately
discharged.
Scared of Daily.
Once two copies of the Daily
Worker were found in the office OF
the Wilson plant. More than fifty
workers were summoned to the Of
flee and cross-examined.
Even the employment agents are
now being used by the company to
spy on the workers. The employ
ment agent of the Wilson Co. in
Kansas City has made it his BUSH
ness to visit every mass meeting
arranged by the Workers (Comnu-
nist) Party or the Young Workers
(Communist) League.
Spies are also planted in the
pool rooms and restaurants where
the packing house workers are gath
cred. They snoop around and report
every little move of a worker that
smacks of radicalism. But the COM
pany is not content with having its
system of industrial spying. 1t also
employs regular private detective
agencies.
One of them is Sisto's Interna-
tional Detective Agency. This
agency primarily spies on the Work
ers Party and on the packing house
plant committee. The agency also
plants some of it's confidence" men
IN the packing houses.
Readers of the Daily Worker and
other working class papers are re-
ported TO the company and the
workers are fired.
Bosses Feel Insecure.
These few facts show that the
bosses do not feel so secure in their
q efforts to keep the workers en-
shaved. The bosses only want, to
fool the workers and keep them
from organization by belittling the
efforts of the Workers Party to or
ganize the packing house workers.
However, the workers will not be
fooled. The workers in the packing
houses realize that the Communist
Party is the only working class or
canization really trying to organize
the workers and improve the life OF
the workers. They also know that
no persecution and no spy systems
will ever stop the militant workers
from carrying on their work in the
racking houses, and the coming con.
vention of our Party in District II
will lay basis for the intensified
ton of the organization work in thu
packing industry.
M GUSHING