The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-17
Labor Spy System
Exposed by Daily
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in the Trust Company of Georgia
Building at Atlanta.
Peter Van Horn, chairman of the
N. r. A. Silk Code Authority, is
willing to refer qualified individuals
to addresses Of people who can spill
dope on local Communist activity in
silk. George Sloan's publicity man,
Bill Lawson, has astoundingly ac-
curate information on the per-
sonnet of flying squadrons in Trion
and Hones Path.
Espionage Files
At that, textile espionage lacks
the lneSse of the network which
honeycombs steel. In Rooms 1909
and 1910 of the Carnegie Building
at Pittsburgh, Mr.. Charles w. futile
keeps some 70 steel cabinets and
20 double card files and one of the
best current libraries of labor and
radical publications in the country
Here the initiated find records Of
all union organizers in steel, work.
ers active in the unions, Communist
Party members residing in steel
towns, group photographs of Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial
Union conventions, numbered pic
lures, of picket lines. Photostats
OF these are in possession of the
Daily Worker and will be printed
IN the course of this series.
Even Mr.. Tuttle'S organization.
with the unlimited resources of
U. S. Steel behind it, must rely
on reports by private detective
agencies. 1t is private operatives
who form the skeleton of the great
American espionage system. 1t is
these industrial service bureaus
human engineering services" in
duStrial conciliators" and human
relations counsellors," who keep
men in the shop, on the company
baseball team, inside the A. F. of
u. bureaucracy and behind the
counters of restaurants where
workers eat.
PrOvOcatiOn Experts
No industrial adjustment opera
ton" is beyond or below the scope
of these outfits. Harry Orchard
formerly of Thiel and Pinkerton, is
still serving life sentence in an
Idaho penitentiary for the aSsassi-
nation by bomb of Governor Steu-
enberg, but when his superior, Al
Ian Pinkerton, died recently he left
a fortune running into seven fig
ures. In Joliet, H., a Burns man
was caught throwing a bomb at a
non-union garage to discredit strik-
ing members of the machinists'
union, but that did not affect en-
tries in the agency's books such as
the payment of $29,81711, con-
tributed by the Manufacturers AS
ISOLATION of Erie, Pa, for the
breaking of single strike.
Approaching a prospective client,
the j. H. Turner Service writes:
Dear Sir: In view of the epidemic
of agitation that has recently brok-
en- out among the working classes
of Greater Boston and Massachu-
sets in general and the plans now
being matured for further influx
of organizers to- more completely
line, up the workers so that radical
action may be brought about. We
believe the time is opportune to di-
rect your attention to our service
and to the work which we have
been doing for years for large
number Of leading manufacturers
throughout the country. Dur
ing the years of our existence no
regular client of the company has
been troubled with strikes. :. We
are not troublemakers but prevent
ers. We are not syStematizers, but
thermometers. The Daily
Worker will show this harmonizing
in action by printing reproductions
of reports sent by Turner spies on
the employees of United Electric
Light g. Power Co., as we'll as a
copy of the agency's bill for serv-
ices rendered.
The confidentially circulated or