The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-23
SPIES OF LABOR
 BEING EXPOSED
Senate Committee, Headed By La Toilette, Reveals
 Strike Breaking Firms
BY c. L. SULZBERGER lUnited Press Staff CnrreSn0ndentl

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 Washington, Sept. 23-(UP) -- Firms supplying information to in- dustry during times of labor strife came under scrutiny today in the Senate civil liberties committees in- vestigation of alleged strike break ing and labor spying activities. Off, ficials of the national corporations service, which Chairman Robert M. La Toilette described as a typical firm engaged in supplying informa- tion to industry, were called to tes- tify. Principal witnesses were ex- pected to be E. E. McGuffin and l.. w. Huffman, president and secre- tary-treasurer, respectively, of the company.
 Strike Breaking Agencies
 The committee also expected to call E. J. McDay, of Chicago, pur- portedly a former employe of Pearl Bergoff's strike breaking organiza- tion; and Sam Cohen, of many alia- ses, known usually as "Chowder- head, who was said to have been a lieutenant in strikebreaking agency. The committee planned to complete today summary review of activities of the Railway Audit & Inspection Co.,, detective group charged with having been widely en- gagged in strike breaking. Six offi- cialS of the R. A. & I. were indict- ed by district of Columbia grand jury on charges of contempt because they refused to testify before the La Toilette committee. Additional employees of R. A. & I. were expect ed to be called to supplement yes- terday's testimony that office files of the firm in Baltimore were or- dered cleared" when it became known that the Senate committee intended to investigate R. A. & I.
 Partial List Of Clients
 The committee also made public a partial list of clients of the R. A. & l., including some of the largest corporations in the country. Among those named by the committee were: Aka -Seltzer, American Aluminium O., Borden Milk O., bush terminal O., Bendix Products Corp, Conso- lidated Gas Co., Columbian Steam ship O., Frigidaire Corp, Kelvina- tor Sales Corp, the City of Knox vile, Tenn, National Dairy Pro- ducts, Phoenixville Hosiery Mills, Pennsylvania Railroad, Remington Rand, Real Silk Hosiery Co., Tasty Bread O., Toledo Edison Co.,. Texas Oil O., United Service Co.,, Western Union, Wheeling Steel Corp, Wes- tinghouse Electric and Manufactur- ing Co., Truscon Steel Co.,, Pennsyl- vania Greyhound, U. s. Steel Co.,, Cushman Sons, and the Jewish Hos pital of New York city. In an at tempt to emphasize methods and ex- tent of strike-breaking, the commit tee yesterday inquired exhaustively into R. A. & I.'s work in industrial espionage.
 Chief Points Developed
 Chief points developed so far by the committee, according to its rep resentatives, are:
 1. Testimony that L. D. Rice, gen. eral manager of R. A. & l., ordered a subordinate in Baltimore to "clear" his office files in order not to ''get in trouble" after the con1- mittee issued subpenas in its in- quiry.
 2. Indications of an increase in labor spying as a result of the new organizing drive sponsored by John L. Lewis's committee for industrial organization.
 3. Conduct by one witness, c. E. Ivey, considered by the committee as tantamount to refusal to testify regarding alleged destruction of sub penaed documents.
 4. Establishment that labor spies who were not already in the confi- dence of union leaders were doing their best to obtain information by posing as newspapermen and insur- aYlce men.