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ILLINOIS CENTRAL IS ACCUSED . OF HIRING EX-CONVICTS AS SIES land' at one time had 280 men known as 'inside and cover-uri meV Each j of them carried a card, of mk meinber- snjp,in a labor unlop. Some -nad cards in'several unions, c J r ''When trouble is, suspected one of these card men is "sent to (he s"cene. Many of the riots ydp. read about are started by these men, , '", a "Think it over for yourself. Sup pose you are an employer. You want a labor union to get' in bad with the public. Why -wouldn't you have some of these ex-convicts and. I cover-up men ge into ,the union nd start blodd running and destropperty?" "It Is not only a double'crosB game. Sometimes there is a. 'triple cross game. Agencies must have trouble In order to make money. There,afe .no strikes unless somebody starts a Strike. So they have tb.eUV cover-up men go" to shODg -where there is .-unrest and ,makejt, .worse sq the em ployer will-need 'to hire an agency.' O Ot , t ' TELEGRAPH BRIEFS Quakertown, Pa. f Ifred Got schall, 70Bhot and 'fatally 'wounded by unknown assailant. Working in Chicago factories and railroad shops today-are hundreds of spies and spotter's hire3 te Join unions and carry cards of membership, ac cording to A. 0. Wharton, president ofthe American Federation of Labor railway department. He testified tje-j fore the federal industrial rejations commission and put into the commis sion's record photographs of ex-convicts employed as spies in labor unions. 1 "Here is a picture from the rogues' gallery of the St. 'Louis police depart-' ment, of A. B, Strang, who joined the machinists' union in Pittsburgh?" said Wharton. -''He was a member five years, until during the Illinois Central strike we caught him making reports to be sent to a postofficebox for use by a detective agency. "There's a lot of yelling about vio lence by labor unions. Look at the record of some of the men used against unions. This-fellow,, Strang, has a ten-year recoras. "criminal. One of iis crimes was' throwing a bottle of muriatic acid into the face of a woman, fte operated as a con fidence man, generally with a woman as his Dal. When arrested recently by the St. Louis police he was living vvasningron. 5ecy Bryan in structed Minister Gonzales at Havana with a shoplifter, a woman npt his J not tp issue passport, tb Jack JoTin- wife, one of the many he hag had stealing with Mm or" fOrJiim. I, "Jl the life jecords of the Pinker ton agency, the.Thiel agency, private detectives and labor union stiies could be learned you would flndfamonV tneir gunmen and sluggers a' high percentage of murderers', thieves and thugs. "In the shopmen's strike we had to fight these-creatures," Two that were active against us had been-ap-pointed special agents-of the Missouri Pacific. Both of them, Bernard Kelly and Leonard Crews, were re cently sentenced to 10 years in Leav- pon, as he is fugitive from- Justice. . Baraboo, Wiss. Fire pestroyqcf Prank Herfort camiing'factpry; loss, $75,0.00. ; v New.York. Mania fon robbipg mail boxes caused arrest elf Joseph Goldsmith 52, 'Heidelberg graduated SinceJ.886 he servejTeight Sentences aggregating -20' years for same, of fense. ., i ' St. Paul, Minn. Fire starting In pjant of Kaz& Hertz, packers, did $25-,000 'damage'. . s Washington. MemberFof Wash ington's police "vice squad" sued for $10,000 for breaking into rooming enworth. for Tobbery of freight cars, house .and 'harrassmg" its occu - "The J. K. Turner agency or crevjpanta:;..- JxZ&Bi i.T'-ri;v " ?J If,