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Reign Of Terror
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away with Herman and other work.
ing class leaders, when George Will
bur, member of a prominent Wau-
kesha family, invited Bins TO Wau-
kesha on the pretext that his
uncle" was having labor trouble
in his plant" and wanted a certain
"agitator" put out of the way.
Wilbur, who is a member of the
League Against War and Fascism,
had another member, Robert Ber-
berich, play the part of his uncle"
He also had a reporter from the
Milwaukee Journal sit in on the
conference with Bins.
Bins, asked if he could handle the
dob" boosted that he had taken
part in the kidnapping of Herman,
had pummelled the working class
leader, and later threw rocks in the
windows of bondsmen who had fur
nished bond for Herman, following
one of his frequent arrests.
Wilbur expressed some worry
about the business of disposing of
the mythical "agitator" in the
"uncle's plant" Bins assured him
there was nothing to worry about
as he was working with the author
tiles
There is absolutely nothing to
worry about. You're fully protected.
I work with the authorities in
Racine.
I'D take him when he least ex-
poets it, in the daytime. I learned
8 lesson in Racine. The boys told
me to get Herman at night. must
have waited fifty hours for him at
534. I can't remember the street,
Packard Avenue, I guess, where ne
gets his relief I went back to the
chamber office and [ said, You're
crazy and I'm crazier still to wait
around at night freezing my feet
off. Why don't you let me take
him in the daytime?' They said
okay, and next morning at IL a. m.
took him.
u. S. Agent Drove Kidnap Car
q had so cars at my disposal.
One car agency is 100 per cent
okay, he let me have any car I
wanted. The fellow that drove for
me was a department of justice
agent working out of the Chicago
office. He's getting a list of Com
munists and things like that"
Bins then told in detail how he
had broken up the Communist
Party headquarters at Racine, and
Of being instructed by persons in
the office of the Association of
Commerce to take care" of the
bondsmen who had furnished bail
for Herman. He also boosted that
he had been invited to go to Mil
waukee and "get" Morris Childs,
district organizer of the Commu-
mist Party. 81 waited for that so
and so all day at the Medford
hotel" Bins said, started calling
him on the phone at 8 a. m, one
Sunday and kept it up all day, but
couldn't get in touch with him"
will you try again?" he was
asked.
"Oh, sure, We'll have to get him.
Why do you know Childs is the one
who is running a school on Com
munism in Milwaukee? Wen get
him all right"
Bins was then asked what would
the job in hand cost. He would
leave that up to the Office he
replied, but took $40 as a retainer.
Bins was placed under arrest. He
was almost Immediately released,
however, on $500 bail. The story
of how he was trapped by the in
vestigators was published on the
front page of the Milwaukee Jour-
nal, which also reported that his
arrest had thrown those involved
and those supposedly involved in
the war against Communism into
furry of excitement"
Officials of the Association of
Commerce fastened to disassociate
themselves from their trapped
agent. American Legion officials,
while denying that Bins is q men,
Der of the Legion, visited him in
Jail Immediately after his arrest.