The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-18

IAAC bcAIilC uluuSITy, MT. william
Lawson, formerly of the N. r. A.
publicity machine, now George
Sloan's front, was strangely reti-
cent. He knew nothing about re-
ports received. Violence at Trion.
Georgia? Oh, that was just a
group of local -molders cutting
up. How did he know? Hearsay.
Perhaps Mr.. Van Horn of the Silk
Code Authority would know.
Communists in the textile in
dustry?" Mr.. Van Horn asked IF I
were on that Story, I'd talk to Dave
Cole of Paterson. He keeps tabs
on them"
David Cole of the firm of Cole
and Morrill,, rs Church st., Pater-
son, N. j., made sure about Van
Horns recommendation and said
no, he hadn't heard about any sys-
tematic record Of union leaders in
silk, either. Perhaps Mr.. Baker of
the Silk Manufacturers Associa-
ion could help.
Mr.. M. M. Baker is listed in the
building directory downstairs as the
NJ. M. Baker Co., but upstairs he is
secretary of the association. His
office is adorned by a likeness of
F. D. Roosevelt and an inscribed
motto Property is the fruit of
labor; it is positive good in this
world. That some should be rich
shows that others may become rich
and hence is just encouragement to
industry and enterprise" Mr..
Baker obliged by supplying details
about the geneology and domestic
life of Moe Brown, Communist can
didate for Governor of New Jersey.
He said Brown came from fine
stock.
1T was Paterson's Chief of Police
John A. Murphy who, in an in
formal chat, finally let the rat out
of the bag. The man to give you
the. dope is Tim Manning. Why
don't you look him up? Last night
he told me he shipped 500 men to
Massachusetts. He works with
manufacturers all over the coun-
try and he can give you the rec
ord of anybody in the industry"
Mr.. Manning Of Newark
Mr.. Manning does business at 81
Clinton Street, Newark, N. j. His
door opens into #. by 3 #.
cubbyhole, where he can look at
you from all sides. His men walk
about silently and close the doors
behind them. Unfortunately, &C
cording to his assistant, Mr.. Man
ming was away. Why don't the
Paterson people give you the rec
ords themselves?
'T couldn't say When is Mr.
Manning returning from Massa-
chusetts?"
A sharp look. "Any day. He's
very busy in that section now He
has been all around Rhode ISLAND
and Connecticut, too. I can't give
you any records until he returns
Bergof and Manning specialize il
the Protection Dept" which Rec
Demon states is composed of big
disciplined men with military ant
police experience, for the protection
Of life and property" Much of tht
actual espionage in textile is left tt
the Railway Audit and Inspection
Company and its IS main offices ir
Philadelphia. New York, Boston
Little Rock, Baltimore, Atlanta, New
Orleans. Houston. Pittsburgh, Cleve-
land, Detroit. Chicago and ST. Louis
Record Rivals Shermau's
This classy outfit and its we'll,
groomed engineer" front at Phila-
delphia has a record that rivals
John F. Sherman's. One Of it:
operatives was uncovered in Pater.
son and fined 1000 for attempting
to bride Carl Holderman, then Vice
President Of the American Fedora
ton of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers. In Kenosha, Wis. another
operative tried to throw acid bomb.
into the hotel room of another
hosiery workers representative. II
1880 they were found to have hiree
people with specific instructions tt
provoke violence among strikers in
Nazareth, Pa. Their man, Harry c
Cummings, held a membership care
in the street car mems union Of
Allentown for number of years
He was delegate to the Central La
Dor Union of that town.
Spied for Whitney
In 1891 Railway Audit and Inspec-