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fled that he couldn't remember.
Twice, he said, he told Davidson
Pinkerton no longer was engaged in
industrial espionage.
Telling the committee there is one
point at which the Pinkertons' co-op-
Grafton must stop. Whitney declared:
They are unwilling to breach their
pledge to their secret information.
They will not disclose their names.
Their position grows from knowl-
edge and conviction that disclosure
OF these mems names will lead to
violence and, indeed, to murder.
They submit for your considera-
ton records of innumerable and au-
thenticated acts Of violence by labor
groups"
Tells Of Warning Note.
Whitney then told Of receipt by Ray
L. Burnside, Pinkerton's Detroit su-
perintendent, Of note during the last
10 days saying:
"Scram, rat. Get out of Toledo, and
stay out"
Burnside appeared before the COM
mittee about 10 days ago in connection
with espionage activities Of the United
Automobile Workers Of America in
Toledo.
I'VE feel strongly that the great
amount Of material already supplied
by us. including, as 1t does, many re-
ports by these same secret informants,
with only their identities eliminated,
provides basis for an intelligent un-
derstanding of the methods by which
this part of the Pinkerton business Is
conducted" Whitney continued.
Upon the basis Of this material,
We believe the subcommittee will be
in a position to formulate any legis-
lation which it may consider wise.
The addition of names of such COM
paratively unimportant individuals
cannot aid legislation. And we re-
spectfully submit to you that the
effort to compel the disclosure of
these names would amount to an un-
reasonable search and seizure, con-
trary to the provisions Of the fourth
amendment to the United States
Constitution.
I'VE confidently anticipate that
this subcommittee will reach the con-
clusion that these names are too re-
mote and too immaterial to be re-
quired for legislative purposes.
"As counsel, We believe, and have
SO advised Mr.. Pinkerton and his
executives and associates. Relying
on our legal advice, they will most
respectfully decline to make that dis
closure, If the committee calls for
it-as We hope it will not
AS Senator Thomas questioned
Whitney further on the agency's in
tention, the attorney became more
vehement in his insistence that wit
nesses will refuse" to answer certain
questions.
Brady, Cincinnati superintendent
for Pinkertcn, was the first witness
called. At present, he said, his office
Is doing no work for General Motors.
but Cincinnati accounts have been
carried with three Ohio subsidiaries
of G. M. c., Fisher Body, Frigidaire
and the Inland Manufacturing Co.
Brady told OF three occasions on
which he had been a member Of the
International Association of Machin-
lists, but denied ever reporting on
union activities.
The committee Immediately called
Davidson, who testified that he first
knew Brady in Richmond in 1910,
that Brady had been an active union
member and had attempted to frame"
him with union officials. At Brady,s
1nstigation, Davidson testified, a
Richmond photographer faxed a pic
ture Of Davidson in a saloon. The
photographer admitted putting David
sons head on picture of somebody
else in the saloon.
Subsequently, Davidson continued.
Brady was found to be a Pinkerton
agent and he disappeared from Rich
mond in 1911.
Davidson encountered Brady later
in Atlanta and Baltimore and finally
at the Democratic convention in New
York in 1924.
On the latter occasion, Davidson
said, Brady offered to turn over to
the Machinists' Association the names
of undercover operatives of the Burns
agency a rival of Pinkerton. About
two weeks later Davidson received a
list of the Burns agents.
Brady next showed up In Alex
andria in 1886, when he suggested to