The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28
National CiVic Federation, Aided by Labor
Chiefs, Has Long Record as Workers Foe.

uganda Of Wall Street. It was Creel
who helped gather data" for the
famous Sisson forgeTtes which aimed
to show that Lenin and other leaders
! Of the Russian Revolution were in the
| pay of the Imperial German govern
ment.
Means provides chapter in more
recent history. This crony of Easley
and old associate of the sIeuth Will
liam J. Burns, is now serving a Is
/ year-term in Lewiston Penitentiary,
Pennsylvania for relieving Mrs. Eve
lyn Walsh Mclean, estranged wife of
a Washington publisher, of the tidy
| sum of $105, 900 on the promise that
he would turn over the missing Lind
bergh baby to her.
When Means was arrested on a
charge of eXtortion in connection with
this case, Easley rushed to Washing
ton, according to the Washington
Post" According to lawyer in the
case, Easley was on his way to a
conference with Means in the Will
lard Hotel, when the latter was
arrested ...,......
Quite a place, the willard Hotel.
It's the same swell join (open-
shop, of course), where the Am
erican Federation of Labor held its
recent convention.
Means. it was revealed New York
World, Nov 10, 1880, was employed
| for more than year as a Ped in
! yestigator" by the National Civic
Federation. According to the deceased
World, Means salary and expenses
reached as high as $500 week, which
the Federation paid from its contribu-
tory fund, one of the largest donors to
which is, incidentally, Mrs Finley J..
Shepard the former Helen Gould,
579 Fifth Ave, who is extremely
jealous in the patriotic work of the
Federation.
Rose from Ranks
This lad Means is a dynamic in
dividual-real American" type. He
graduated from the civilian ranks and
became right-hand man to William
J. Burns when Burns took over the
Department Of Justice under Harding.
Remember him?)
During the past years Means has
established an international reputa-
ton: he has been arrested for murder
when he was charged with the shoot
ing to death of Maud King, a wealthy
widow he had been hired to guard as
Burns detective; he has. been
charged with taking will, being
German spy, collecting brides, plot
ting rum settings, bribing an Attor-
ney-General, etc, etc.
Whalen Part of Gang
Grover A Whalen, former Police
Commissioner, and now head of the
NRA in New York, was for q time
land now head Of the MIRA in New
York, was for a time and (probably
still is chairman Of the Civic Fedora
tion'st Department on Subversive
Movements"
Thus the president of the AM
erican Federation, Matthew Vol, and
the strillebreaker Whelan meet in
joyous collaboration for the Staying
of the. Red dragon and saving Am
erican institutions for those who own
them.
Nice hook-up: Whalen, Vol and
Easley.
Remember the notorious Whalen
Forgeries, which proved that the
Amtorg Trading Corporation was
carrying on Red propaganda? Well,
it was old man Easley who palmed
them off on Whalen. Not that
Whalen didn't know they were for
geries, off course.
John L. Spivak, now special cor
respondent for the Daily Worker,
exposed the Whalen documents as
forgeries shortly after they were
turned over to the capitalist press
to be emblazoned on their front
pages.
While in Washington Spivak
swore in his affidavit which he read
to the Fish Committee, (July Is,
1890, "I learned that Ralph M. Eas-
ley had had those documents at lease
six weeks before Mr.. WhaIen issued
them to the press and had shown
them to several people in Washing
ton, one of whom 1 was informed,
was Hugh Kerwin of the Department
for Cancellation of the Department |
of Labor"
Spivak further declared that while |
in Washington he learned that Mrs.
Henry Ioomis, sister-in-law of for
mer Secretary of State Stimson, had |
been a heavy cor1trihIItnr. fo r3uce;a,,