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

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The previous day, Sept. 20, about
$50 of these Phi. DIS mobbed Ber-
/ goff's headquarters at 2 Columbus
Circle, asseverating that they had
been chiseled out of five bucks
apiece. One of them, who chooses
to go on the record as "Chowder-
head Cohen" stated: I'VE done a
good job. We risked our lives and
We was run out of the State and
we stuck wild our captains, too, and
now dis redheaded skunk wouldn't
kick in"
TaImadge His Friend
The reference being to the action
of Governor Talmadge of Georgia,
who had a Bergoff contingent
elected from Potterdale of that
State.
Governor Talmadge is a friend
of mine and a nice guy" Bergoff
said, but he treated my men like
goddam crook. He is up for cleo
ton again, and he was making
political capital out of it with the
mill workers. That's how he gets
their votes, Then he gets his real
support from the mill owners by
calling his partial martial law.
Then you know my men take blow
rather than give one"
It was due to a deplorable mis-
understanding that in the strike of
| the Standard Oil truck drivers
Bergoff man was found with a
Mauser semi-machine gun in his
car, an 8-shot hickory stick" de-
livering flat-nosed bullets. Louis
Bergoff and the Val O'Farrell
agency were both in on that deal,
but the big money went to Peter
DeVito of Queens. This LID. adj
mitted to a gross income of $503, 1853
that year, observing that all but
$14,275 went for business expenses
and gifts" This is not to be mar
veled at, since we know his con-
federates to have been Alderman
Joseph Dermody of the 14th Assem-
bly, District and Joseph Lentil,
Tammany leader of same. 1t was
in their cars that the industrial
adjusters roamed the Brooklyn
! streets.
That these are praiseworthy men
and true was further attested by
letter signed w. D. Anderson, read
aloud in the investigators presence
by the Red Demon. Mr.. Anderson
is head of the Southern Textile
Manufacturers Association, and he
has publicly INDUCED in poignant
complaint about illegal intimida-
ton caused by picketing especially
the invasion of mill. towns by the
so-called flying squadrons Of pick
cts"
In Bergoff's words, legality is
pillar of efficiency and efficiency is
pillar of the agency. On the
morning of Sept. 81, the postman
delivered over dozen airmail let
tiers from below the Mason-Dixon
line to Columbus Circle. Some of
these were left carelessly. on Red
Demons large desk and the return
addresses were printed in yester-
days Daily Worker. Carried away
by his own protestationS of eff
cheney, Red also pulled out his OPP
erative's preliminary report on the
Chicago Motor Coach Strike and
then became engaged in animated
conversation with his secretary for
a time sufficient to allow anyone
interested to copy its contents. Ber-
goff has been detective for 80
years.
Undercoyer Department
This report Eliminates the meth
eds of more than one agency. 1t is
dated July 7, 1884, long before the
strike began, and it contains the
military plans of the "Undercover
Department composed Of care
fully selected male and female me-
chanics and work people. They
furnish accurate information Of the
movement and contemplated &C
lions of their fellow employees.
'Forewarned is forearmed' In this
instance they cover the key points
on the route system Of the Chicago
Motor Coach Company:
mo. 15-Harlem and Addison
| Streets and Pueblo Avenue exten-
sion coach: Main terminal. Turn
around; neighborhood inhabited by
foreign element and union labor
sympathizers; sparsely settled
Dangerous at night. Eight guards;
ten, night; auto and s.a. men"
NO. 24-Wilcox Garage: Very big;
cafeteria and lstrine accommoda-
tons; house $50 men. Belt line
tracks close by; alley on East; coal
and ice on North low, disused build
ing opposite. Fifty guards, auto and
s.a. men,"
mo. 36-World's Fair Terminal:
18th ST., at Lake Michigan: Fed by
all three divisions. Might have 100
coaches parked waiting for crowd
to break. Seventy-five guards.
There should be special telephone
service at this point"
There are 43 such individual
points to be covered. A final an
alysis shows 624 guards" 43 super
visors, is captains and 16 squad
automobiles required per shift.
The report is typed by a trusted
stenographer cher notes are burned
and sent to the New York office.
Representatives of the company
and the agency confer and arrive
at suitable figure. Red cashes a
check at his favorite bank.
Proud of System
Bergoff is inordinately proud of
his system and jealous of his con-
temporaries' success. When Man
ning's name was mentioned he pre-
tended never to have heard of him.
| Subsequently, in another connec-
| tiar, ha refn,.,.nd Il liz. IT..