The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-24
THUG TACTICS IN
 STRIKE BREAKING
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Robert M. LaFollette said.
 Called Double Crosser

Witnesses -'Tinks" and "Nobles" who said they had been employed by McGuft1n bitterly assailed him as a "double-crosser" and asserted he raised his own pay from $5,000 to $36,000 8 year while "pinching" theirs. The use of gas, which sick ems but does not kill, against work CTS is another phase of the commit tees inquiry into violation of civil rights of workers. The investigation was ordered by the last session of congress. Lurid tales of riots, dyna- mitings, clubbings, the use of live steam to scald strikers and high tension wires to electrocute them, have been told by admitted labor spies, undercover men and strike breakers.
 Hard-bitten "Finks"- --strikebreak- ers-rubbed elbows with well-dress- ed society women in the ornate marble senate hearing room as . motely assortment of ruffians des- cribed in rough and picturesque language their brutal trade. From the first word, murmured by E. J. McDade, former employe of Pearl s. Bergoff, the fred demon" to the last, rattled out in carefree fashion, by 0. M. Red" Kuhl, its tone was all the same, varying but in sordid details. McDade, his eye blacked and his fist mandaged, nonchalantly re- counted the battering of picket lines by himSlef and fellow guards, armed with machine guns provided, according to him, by Federal Lab- oratories of Pittsburgh.
 Tells of Strikes He Broke
 In voice barely audible in the hushed room he told of ''breaking" the 1884 Milwaukee Wisconsin Light and Power Company strike. Pick-ax handles were supplied to FOO "Finks" and lights were turned out so they could use them more ef- fectively on strikers, he said. Hoses were connected to boilers so that live steam could be poured on pickets. Company fences were lined with concealed, charged wires. One man was electrocuted. "It,s a rotten bus iness," McDade said.
 Had Prison Record
 Sam "Chowder Head" Cohen, a massive man with bull-like neck, "noble" le"-guard-for 20 years, whose police record showed him to be a graduate" of Sing Sing Prison and Atlanta Penitentiary; former bodyguard to Vivian Gordon, Broad- way playgirl; and a vetern burglar, thief, and hoodlum, gave strike breaking" as his profession.
 Michael Casey, an employe of the Railway Audit and Inspection Com- pany, recalled working on several Remington-Rand strike "jobS." He said he drove to Stamford, Conn, with Bergoff, self-styled liking of the strikebreakers," to pick up James Rand, company president.
 He told of 8 flight" talk made by Rand to assembled "Finks" offering everyone who got through 8 picket line to a locked out plant 8 $5 bonus.
 we got it,. he said.
 Gas Sold in Strikes
 Almost half 8 million dollars worth of tear and nauseating gas was sold by a trio of manufactur- CTS during three depression years for use in possible industrial dis putes, the senate civil liberties committee was told today.
 Robert Wohlforth, committee sec retary, presented 8 chart showing use and sales of gas in industrial disputes. The map was put up on the wall of the marble hearing room where the inquiry into strikebreak- ing activity is being conducted.
 Wohlforth said that the large clusters of pins stuck in the map represented sales of tear and sick ening gas. Each pin stood for $500 worth of fumes or equipment, he said. Certain sections were black with pins.
 He said the sales were made by Lake Erie Chemical O., Cleveland; 1; Federal Laboratories, Pittsburgh. and Manville Manufacturing O., Pontiac, Mich, during 1883. 1884, and 1885. Their total value, acc cording to Yohlforth, was $466.9 .913.
 Wohlforth explained the strategic reasons for sales in various sections. Ohio, the largest area darkened by great numbers of pins, was Q good district for sales because of the rub Der and steel industries situated there, he said.
 Around Pittsburgh, the Mahcning Valley. and down to West Virginia, the steel industrial centers were dokAd with riYng indicating gas saleg.