The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-09
BY LABOR RESEARCH ASSN.

MATTHEW Woll acting president Of the Ma
El tional Civic Federation, has appointed on
committee of 100 to fight Communism j. P.
Weyerhauser millionaire head of one OF the
units in the colossal Weyerhaeuser lumber trust.
These interests employ over $1,000 workers,
many of them under the "gypo" contract and
padrone system in the mills and camps OF the
Northwest In her recent book Labor and Lum-
Der, Charlotte Todes says Weyerhaeuser mas
never tolerated union organization and has al
WAYS maintained a system of espionage to pre-
vent attempts by the workers to organize LOT
better working conditions" WeyerhaeuserS al
filiations are carefully concealed, financial re-
ports are rot published and every attempt at
Federal investigation to reveal its profits nave
been successfully resisted. Another significant
appointment to the Woll anti-Soviet committee
is Wilson Compton of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association.
The wall raised about forced labor in Soviet
lumber camps initiated by the Woll-Easley fed
Grafton may also reflect the substantial contrib
ution of its chief financial angel Mrs Finley
]. Shepard. the former Helen Gould, at one
time reported to be the richest woman IN the
world Those who have wondered who has been
supplying VOL with his torrent OF statements
on sundry public questions, might investigate
the devoted research activities OF Mrs. shepard
She is reported to have prepared in her man
sion at 579 Fifth Avenue the material Tor many
a VOL speech. specifically the one he delivered
at the Carnegie Hall meeting of anti Commun-
list societies arranged by the monarchist agent
George Djamgaroff, January g. 1881. Mr.. Shep-
ard himself is a man of broad financial interests
in his own right being at one time an official
of the Northern Pacific Railroad and still owner
Of a large block of its stock He has also been
connected with the Union Pacific Railroad The
Northern Pacific in particular is interested not
only in the lumber which it hauls but that
which it cuts and sells from its own vast hold
ings in the Northwest. 1t may not be mere
coincidence that Shepard's wife and her close
friends Vol and Easley are so exercised about
imports of competing Soviet lumber into Am
erica
Labor officials of the more reactonary stamp
are sandwiched in between professional patriotic
ladies and open shop capitalists on VOLS anti
Soviet Committee of 100. The labor list in
cludes M J. Keough, president of the Molders,
P j. Brady, president of Federation Bank and
Trust Co. of New York City, w. D. Mahon,
president of Street Railway Employees, j. P.
Ryan, president Central Trades and Labor Coun-
Gil of New York City, James wilson, head of
the Pattern Makers, James Malone, of the Glass
Bottle Blowers, ID. j. Ahearn, president Alueo
Printing Trades Council, New York City, Ellis
Scales, editor Of United Mine Worker, Frank H.
Mccarthy, organizer of the Mass Federation Of
Labor, w. E. Bryan, president Of the United
Leather Workers, J. A. Franklin president G. the
Boiermakers, Martin LaWlor, secretary of the
United Hatters l. M. Ornburn president of the
Cigarmakers. Frank Feeney, president Of the
Elevator Constructors, and Thomas F. Mcmahon
president Of the United Textile Workers of
America Textile workers in the Soviet Union
Incidentally, are about 1907 organized Nc
hAlqa0s union has possibly Ia of the workers