The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17

ganization chart of Sherman Cor
poration, Engineers, here repro
duced, appears harmless enough
until one learns the meaning of
divisions like Charts, Reports and
R equisitions," or Constructive
Propaganda" This self styled PRO
duction Service Bureau" uses vari-
GUS names in the hiring of its cp-
eratives. In past years it has been
tied up with the Chase National
Bank and Fidelity Trust Co. of New
York, the Continental and Com
mercial National Bank of Chicago.
The Girard National Bank of Phil
adelphia, the Mellon National Bank
of Pittsburgh, the Peoples State
Bank of Detroit, the Union Trust
Co. and Guardian Savings 81 Trust
Co. of Cleveland, the National
Bank of Commerce in St. Louis. the
National Shawmut Bank and First
National Bank of Boston and the
Canadian Bank of Commerce in
Toronto.
The Sherman Agency
When John F.. Sherman died last
March he was director and vice
president of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel
of Boston, and director of the
Bankers Securities Corp, the
Bankers Bond and Mortgage Co.,
the Industrial Rayon Corp, and
the Mcclellan Stores. Respectable
enough, but in the instructions to
a Sherman operative hired by his
Chicago Office appears this infor-
nation: There is enough ammu-
milton in the plant of the Illinois
Steel Co. at South Chicago to shoot
down every striker like dog. 1t
was done twenty years ago and it
will be done this time. The minute
any of them starts toward the gate
they will be shot like dogs"
One of the articles in this series
will be devoted to the methods and
accomplishments of Sherman Cor
poration, Engineers, who pay an
annual income tax of $258,000.
Another will offer photostats of in
structions to spies by Corporations
Auxiliary, which has been in bust
ness for 38 years and has never
had less than 1000 undercover men
on its payroll. Still another will
trace the bloody trail of the OBJ
scure but vast empire of New
York's so called Lepke Garrah
gang.
Revealing Correspondence
Pressing its investigation, the
Daily Worker has come into pos
session of a unique and revealing
rrespondence-the signed reports
of two gumshoe men on Unem-
ployment Council activity in New
York. These are men attached to
the Central once of the Home
Relief Bureau. They work hand
in glove with Commissioner of I'M
migration Corsi Joseph A. Brady,
head of the detachment, keeps a
file of Communists that rivals the
rolls of the Party. The reports of
his men form a chapter in munic-
ipal espionage which surpasses the
record of Kenosha, Wisconsin, and
if you look up that towns cashed
checks, you will find No. 1927 made
out to the Pinkerton Detective
Agency.
The clutching roots of the fed
eral spy system also spread in this
underground of the n dustrial
swamp, Headed by General A.
Mitchell Palmer's former assistant
j, Edgar Hoover, and operating
with the aid of the Departments
of Labor, Interior, Agriculture, the
Military Intelligence of the War
Department, the Naval Intelligence
Division and the personal atten-
ton of Roosevelt's secretary, Col
Louis McHenry Howe, they have a
grip on every phase of working
class life and activity, which re-
spends to each imperceptible STIR
ring. The Daily Worker intends
to blast that grip wide open and
show the greedy, itching palm for
what it is.
Tomorrow we will describe the
spy system which contributed to
the sell-out of the textile strike,
the activity of Red Demon"
Bergoff and the Railway Audit
and Inspection Bureau We win
present a list Of hundreds of cor
pOrations whom these agencies
have served, so that workers may
know where to place part of the
blame for the betrayal of their