Evening star., 1937-03-05
La Toilette
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Laboratories, Inc, through r. A. &
l.. to the police department Of West
Point, Ca, it was developed through
committee evidence. Payment, how
ever, was made by the textile firm,
with its Railway Audit strike-break-
ing guards having the use Of them.
Tells of Soviet Trade.
John w. Young. president of Fed
eral Laboratories, told the committee
his concern sold gas and equipment
to Russia through Amtorg, the Soviet
trading organization in New York.
You don't turn down their good
hard dollars" Senator La Toilette re-
marked.
The chairman then introduced q
letter from J. M. Roush, Federal sales
man in California, to B. H. Barker,
vice president and sales manager, tell
ing of the fun" he had firing gas
shells into crowds Of striking long
shoremen in San Francisco in July,
1894.
The following paragraph was con-
tanned in the letter:
Il plan next week to get pictures of
San Francisco riot squads and of the
riots themselves, which shall for
ward to you. might mention that
during one Of the riots, shot a long
range projectile into a group, shell
hitting one man and causing frac-
ture of the skull, from which he has
since died. As he was Communist,
I have had no feeling in the matter
and I am sorry that I did not get
more. The inclosed handful shows a
picture Of me after I had just fired
the shot. I imagine that this is the
first time that one of your agents has
had his picture posted all over town
by Communists.
Sales to San Francisco Berkeley and
Oakland Immediately improved, Roush
reported.
Denies Victim Was Red.
An aff1davit from a witness Of the
shooting next was read, containing the
Engle, the victim, was not q Com.
munist and that no riot was in prog
ress when the shooting occurred. The
afddavit charged that the shooting
seemed staged" for the movie camera
men and as means of demonstrating
"effectiveness" of the equipment.
Engle eventually recovered, al
though he was bedridden for q year
and Roush believed he had killed him.
AS todays hearing opened, it was
disclosed through questioning of John
w. Young, president of Federal Lab
oratories. that his concern and Rail-
way Audit & Inspection Co., strike
breaking organization now under
charge of contempt of the COM
mittee, sell their services through the
same Office In New Orleans and
formerly through joint offices in other
cities. In addition. Young said, w.
w. Groves, an officer of R. A. & l., is
stockholder and former director In
Federal Laboratories. Central In
dustrial Service. subsidiary Of r. A.
& l., also has been holder Of Federal
Laboratories stock.
In the cooperative selling set-up
invoices showed that ST. 800 of Fed
eral Gas and Equipment was sold
through Railway Audit during the
three-year period ending January /,
1886.
Subsequently. 1t was revealed, ink
eradicator was used to obliterate the
name Of Railway Audit and a key
designation employed to indicate such
transactions.
why was that?" La Toilette asked.
Il presume it was to keep the in
formation from Investigators of the
committee" Young answered.
Wed have to be magicians to get
information from these books" La
Toilette remarked.
Its fact, isn't it, that through
your tie-up with Railway Audit all
the weapons and equipment of indus
trial warfare may be obtained through
one office?" La Toilette continued.
I'm some localities" Young admit
ted.
An instance Of this centralized sup
ply arrangement was illustrated In evi-
dence showing the furnishing Of guns
and guards to West Point, Ca. manu-
featuring company during the textile
strike in 1894.
At this point, the committee called
Grower, who said he ran q cleaning
plant in Lannett. He told the COM
mittee that during the strike there
was . petition circulated by the COM
pany and signed BY preachers, doctors.
teachers and others that they would
shut down" II strike was called.
Grower said the preachers and
doctors and teachers Ill worked for the
company.