The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1936-10-02

admittedly false but were rewrit-
ten In the home office and passed
along to the unidentified client
So thoroughly were his reports
rewritten that he had difficulty in
recognizing them.
Large IIrms named as USING K
a. q 1. were AIka-SeItzer, AmerI-
can ALUMINIUM, Borden Mink. tr1-
gldalre, Precision TOOL Go. tRem-
4ngton-kand) Texas Oil Co., Wes-
tlnghouse, Carnegle-IIllnols Steel
and ID. Z. Prick Coal and Coke.
AN incomplete list OF 81 firms
was made public.
Thugs tinks Leave LaFOllette
hearing anu neau 1Or AKRON
AAarSnaIIng lis paraUe o. 11nAs,
noOleS, ScaUS anu sCrIAeureancrs
across the witness sCauu the La
\ OIASLLe cOnIIn1L4LSe LIIVeSLIs aLlllg
VIOLATIONS or civil nDerues pressed
ITS inquiry further into the affair
u LIIe tCa4IWay Au0IC anu AIIspec-
ZION 20. and the AIIied Corpora
ton Service and Its auxiliary, the
National corporation Service GO.
Sucn characters as Oan (CnOW-
oerhead) COhen, II. j. McUaue, II.
r. Miller, W1Inam harper, JACK
FISHER, michael casey "ke0 kuhI
and other employees or the con-
Germs told the story OF violence
and bloodshed they performed at
The behest OF industrial leaders
confronted with labor troubles.
From the stories OF the wit
nesses also, there was pleced to-
gether tale of treachery and dis
honesty among the strikebreakers
and stool pigeons, of double eros
sings by the boss, and OF the rob-
berry or companies by the agencies
and the finKs and mobiles by the
agencies and each other.
AS A. T.. Lawson, formerly ac-
countant tor the National Corpo-
ration Service, the first a stool
pigeon outfit and the latter a
strIkebreaking outfit, put it,
Honest scabs and strikeDreakers
are few and far between. There's
something wrong with them or
they wouldn't be in the business. y
AS the self-cOntessed scabs and
str1kebreakerS finished their tesCi-
mOny they all dashed for the COM
mlttee's office to collect their wit
ness tee and rush to New York,
Even as the committee sat word
passed among the sluggers that
recruiting was going on for big
Job in Ohio"
Rubber workers in Akron may
, expect, then, McDade, one time
link boss for Pearl BergOff, self
styled king of strikebreakers. Nc
Dade appeared wearing two gor.
; geous black eyes and with his
. light am in a sling. He said he haC
: been slugged in Chicago recently
, Unbluhingly he told the com
mittee how he and 700 strike
breakers worked in Milwaukee il
July 1884. He described how the
, Wisconsin Power & Light Co
J where there was a strike, passel
out pickax handles to the finks
how they attached hoses to hv'
. steam outlets, how they cOnceale'
: electric wire in the fences, an'
? how one picket was electrocute'
: on these fences during the strike
He told other details of hi
checkered career and describes
how strikebreakers started slug
ging in order to create more bust
ness for the companies supplying
!. finlks.
: Stan Cohen admitted 266 poun
: "alumnus of Sing Sing and Al
, lanta penitentiaries," told of work
!, ing on ian elevator job" in Me-
n York, bossing a strikebreakin
crew In the Remington-Ran
plant in Middletown and of job
!. for Borden Milk, Purity Brea
and other concerns. He, too,
= = now headed for Akron, it is bt
: ieved.
!. Michael Casey said he was
~ Bergoff lieutenant on a Rem1nS
ton-Rand job in lion, N.
Grand told u.s." he testified "ths
= we had to- get into the plant
s anv cost regardless of the picket
y He said he'd give US a bonus
n MA o,ot in He gave us q SIS bonus