The union times., 1941-05-24
I Remember
 By Richard E.. CrOskey
 Local 4O4 Cooks X Walters Union
SECRET SERVICE!

OENNE OE1N 1AE6 I am always suspicious of any report of an act of lawlessness committed and charged to strikers in any strike, because l have per- sOnally seen and heard of many such acts that I positively knew the strikers had no hand in. Last week I related one of them that fortunately the strikers got infOr- nation of in time, and thus were able to expose.
 In Colorado
 For six years, 1908-14, I served in Colorado as the State Labor Statis- tician of Colorado, and as such 1 was most of the time, in charge of the Labor Department, my chief being away on business a good deal. There I was in a position to obtain a lot of inside information not otherwise obtainable. Some of this information is both fantistic, weird, and unbeliev- able, but I got the real facts and found them true. Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction I can well be- lieve, as have experienced it.
 One day just after the explosion at the Los Angeles Times" in which some printers were killed, an old friend came into the office in the State Capitol Building and greeted me. He was mining engineer that knew in Cripple Creek. He told me that he was in Los Angeles at the time of the explosion and in fact was one of the first to get into Ink Alley after the explosion occurred. Being well versed in the manner that dynamite and other explosives act, he told me that 1t was not a dynamite explosion at all, des- cribing the way different explosions act when set off. He stated that this explosion was undoubtedly a gas ex- plosion, as was contended by the de- fense in the trial of the McNamara brothers, who were tried for this out rage and convicted after they had, by some means of which many of us knew, confessed to the crime.
 Naturally you may ask why did not my friend testify at the trial? This is easily answered if you were aware of the inside facts of that trial, but that is long story, and he was then serving as U. s. Secret Agent. The McNamaras took the ''knock" for somebody else.
 Miners Union
 On another occasion $. S" man visited the Labor Commissioners of- flee and told about being stationed at Butte, Montana, and that he had ir- formation that the mine operators in that town had resolved to break up the strong Metal Miners Union Butte No. w. F. of M." some ten thousand strong, practically ran the city of Butte, with population of I80.000, politically and otherwise. One had to carry a union card to work at 1 any calling in that city. He stated that plot was working to import many radicals into the city, have them join the miners union and then sabot- age it with "Red" propaganda, criticise the officers, and generally start dis satisfaction inside the union. I got in touch with Charlie Mover, presi- dent of the w. F. of M., at once and gave him this information.
 Mark the sequel: this union was destroyed by these means and when President Mover visited them to stop the destruction, he was set up- on at the meeting and had to be taken down the fire escape at the rear of the building and rushed out of town to save his life. The fine building owned by the miners was wrecked, just the four walls were standing the last time I was in Butte. However, the union has come back.
 (To be continued.